An international team of paleontologists has united to study important fossil footprints recently discovered in a remote location within Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. A large sandstone boulder contains several exceptionally ...
Archaeology & Fossils
May 16, 2019
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Changes to alpine streams fed by glaciers and snowfields due to a warming climate threaten to dramatically alter the types of bacteria and other microbes in those streams, according to a research team that included a University ...
Environment
May 16, 2019
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Understanding the patterns underlying vegetation distribution is vital for creating predictive models to forecast responses of natural systems to global change. Savanna ecosystems cover at least 40 percent of the global tropics, ...
Environment
May 15, 2019
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A small Cessna soared high above the Mojave Desert recently, its engine growling in the choppy morning air. As the aircraft skirted the mountains on the edge of Death Valley National Park, a clutch of passengers and environmentalists ...
Environment
May 08, 2019
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A landmark new United Nations report warns that the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, and that upwards of one million species are gravely at risk.
Environment
May 08, 2019
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Can a uranium mine be rehabilitated to the environmental standards of a national park and World Heritage site?
Environment
May 07, 2019
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Red-legged frogs made famous by Mark Twain are thriving in Yosemite Valley after a decades-long absence.
Ecology
May 06, 2019
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A bald eagle found dead in Montana's Glacier National Park died of lead poisoning.
Ecology
May 01, 2019
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Maintaining existing conservation areas might be a more cost-effective investment than expansion, according to new research led by The University of Queensland.
Environment
Apr 29, 2019
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A spring surge of meltwater, seeping through vertically tilted layers of rock, caused a seismic swarm near California's Long Valley Caldera in 2017, according to research presented at the 2019 SSA Annual Meeting.
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2019
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