Students at California State University, the nation's largest four-year public university system, will need to take an ethic studies course to graduate under a bill signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Education
Aug 18, 2020
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U.S. authorities on Friday gave wildlife managers in Washington, Oregon and Idaho permission to start killing hundreds of sea lions in the Columbia River basin in hopes of helping struggling salmon and steelhead trout.
Ecology
Aug 15, 2020
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The socioeconomic gap between Black Americans and non-Black Americans hasn't changed considerably in a half-century, fueling assertions that many social institutions disproportionately exclude Blacks and are structurally ...
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2020
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In their zeal to promote the importance of climate change as an ecological driver, climate scientists increasingly are ignoring the profound role that indigenous peoples played in fire and vegetation dynamics, not only in ...
Environment
Jul 20, 2020
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists studying thousands of oyster shells along the Georgia coast, some as old as 4,500 years, has published new insights into how Native Americans sustained oyster harvests for thousands ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2020
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Through deep genetic analyses, Stanford Medicine scientists and their collaborators have found conclusive scientific evidence of contact between ancient Polynesians and Native Americans from the region that is now Colombia—something ...
Archaeology
Jul 8, 2020
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People in what is now Washington State were smoking Rhus glabra, a plant commonly known as smooth sumac, more than 1,400 years ago.
Archaeology
Jun 26, 2020
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The seeds of jojoba are one of the only known sustainable sources of liquid wax esters. They have been used as an eco-friendly replacement for similar oils that were once harvested from the spermaceti organ of the sperm whale ...
Plants & Animals
May 21, 2020
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When the Hualapai tribe imposed a stay-at-home order and closed its Skywalk, the horseshoe-shaped, glass-bottomed walkway that extends over the south rim of the Grand Canyon, last month, it gave its members an added layer ...
Social Sciences
May 11, 2020
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There is plenty of data showing that police brutality leads to mistrust of police and law enforcement. Researchers from Lehigh University and the University of Minnesota set out to see if experience with police brutality ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2020
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