Using genetic markers, researchers have for the first time shown how cultivating a specific crop led to the expansion of a pollinator species. In this case, the researchers found that the spread of a bee species in pre-Columbian ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2016
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Nearly 13,000 years ago, a baby boy died in what is Montana today.
Archaeology
Feb 12, 2014
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The climate in the Northeastern United States changed drastically more than five times before the first Europeans arrived. A new study suggests that the indigenous people in the area were able to adapt their culture and agriculture ...
Archaeology
Dec 6, 2010
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to enlist shooters to kill more than 500,000 barred owls over the next 30 years in the Pacific Northwest to preserve habitat for northern spotted owls, a protected species.
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2023
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As the climate, demographics and land usage continue to change, tribal communities in Oklahoma are increasingly at risk of severe weather. A recent study led by Yang Hong with the University of Oklahoma examines these changes ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2023
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A University of Queensland-led research team says the key to a more sustainable food future may be a better understanding of ancient Indigenous food production systems.
Archaeology
Nov 12, 2023
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Unlike almost any other archaeologist on earth, Jessi Halligan does her digging underwater.
Environment
Oct 12, 2023
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In 2022, the Penn Museum announced that it would rebury the skulls of dozens of Black Philadelphian individuals whose remains were unethically obtained in the mid-1800s. Some in the community of the individuals' descendants, ...
Archaeology
Sep 29, 2023
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Historically, if youth in foster care didn't have a biological or adoptive parent to turn to at age 18, they were released from the child welfare system, often with few resources and even less support. But in 2008, a federal ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2023
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More than 3,500 invasive alien species are seriously compromising human well-being and causing irreversible damage to ecosystems, according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2023
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