Snipers took to helicopters in Australia on Wednesday to begin a mass cull of up to 10,000 camels as drought drives big herds of the feral animals to search for water closer to remote towns, endangering indigenous communities.
Environment
Jan 8, 2020
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Mathematics can help reduce poaching and illegal logging in national parks, researchers have found.
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2019
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In 1973, a teacher named Joan Hodgins took her students on a hike near Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory. In the process, she made history for this chilly region.
Archaeology
Oct 31, 2019
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Dinosaur footprints found in several European countries, very similar to others in Morocco, suggest that they could have been dispersed between the two continents by land masses separated by a shallow sea more than 145 million ...
Archaeology
Oct 25, 2019
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An international team of researchers has found evidence that mercury from volcanic eruptions played a role in the end-Triassic mass extinction. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers describe ...
Human population density and land use is causing changes in animal genetic diversity, according to researchers at McGill University.
Ecology
Oct 22, 2019
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To many people, power line corridors are eyesores that alter wild lands and landscapes, even if they are necessary sites for transmission lines that deliver electricity.
Ecology
Oct 3, 2019
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With the use of ultra-high-speed videography, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Associate Professor Emanuel Azizi and colleagues from Occidental College Los Angeles have shed light on the hunting mechanism of the cone snail ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2019
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One quarter of the world's tropical land could disappear by the end of the century unless meat and dairy consumption falls, researchers have warned.
Environment
Aug 12, 2019
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Around 360 million years ago, creatures trekked out of the water and onto dry land, becoming the first terrestrial animals. The colonization of land by animals may be one of the greatest evolutionary events in the history ...
General Physics
Aug 8, 2019
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