Understanding the factors that influence large mammal habitat use and their spatio-temporal response to human disturbance plays a crucial role in wildlife conservation and management. However, this knowledge is still limited ...
Ecology
Jul 28, 2023
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New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering evidence that people arrived in the Americas earlier than once thought.
Archaeology
Jul 13, 2023
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A new weevil species was discovered in Japan's pristine subtropical forests on Ishigaki Island and Yanbaru National Park in Okinawa.
Plants & Animals
Jun 16, 2023
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Human behavior changed dramatically during lockdowns in the first months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in behavioral changes of land mammals. This is according to a study published in Science by a large international ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2023
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The next time NASA goes to the Moon, it intends to stay. Under the Artemis program, the US space agency plans to maintain a human presence, for the very first time, on a celestial body other than Earth.
Space Exploration
May 4, 2023
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During August 2019, more than 40,000 tourists visited Hawaii's Molokini island to snorkel or dive. In March 2020, the worldwide COVID lockdown dropped that number to zero.
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2023
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Could we feed a city on Mars? This question is central to the future of space exploration and has serious repercussions on Earth too. To date, a lot of thought has gone into how astronauts eat; however, we are only beginning ...
Agriculture
Jan 24, 2023
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Even without hunting rifles, humans appear to have a strong negative influence on the movement of wildlife. A study of Glacier National Park hiking trails during and after a COVID-19 closure adds evidence to the theory that ...
Ecology
Jan 19, 2023
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Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas, helping to fill in the history of how early humans crafted and ...
Archaeology
Dec 23, 2022
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Human presence and influence on landscapes change the way other animals interact by bringing them close together more frequently than happens in wilder places.
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2022
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