If you want to find a safe neighborhood to live in, choose one where the residents trust each other—and have a lot of dogs to walk.
Social Sciences
Jul 5, 2022
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The endangered southern resident killer whale population isn't getting enough to eat, and hasn't been since 2018, a new University of British Columbia (UBC) study has determined.
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2022
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In July 2019, a series of earthquakes including two major shocks of magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 a day apart struck near Ridgecrest, CA, between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. For local residents, it was a violent interruption to the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2022
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Carried like stowaways in the guts of international travelers, new and potentially deadly strains of antimicrobial resistant superbugs may be coming to a community near you, suggests new research from Washington University ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 7, 2021
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Endangered Southern Resident killer whales prey on a diversity of Chinook and other salmon. The stocks come from an enormous geographic range as far north as Alaska and as far south as California's Central Valley, a new analysis ...
Ecology
Mar 3, 2021
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The number of affordable housing units in the United States at risk of flooding could triple over the next three decades due to climate change, to nearly 25,000 by 2050, according to a new study from the research group Climate ...
Environment
Dec 3, 2020
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The Fraser River estuary in British Columbia is home to 102 species at risk of extinction. A new study says it's not too late to save these species if action is taken now.
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2020
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The most comprehensive global analysis of community forestry ever undertaken shows that government policies formalizing local residents' land access and resource rights often backfire by resulting in less access and weakened ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2020
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Elephant trails may lead the way to better conservation approaches.
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2020
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Reduced resilience of plant biomes in North America could be setting the stage for the kind of mass extinctions not seen since the retreat of glaciers and arrival of humans about 13,000 years ago, cautions a new study published ...
Ecology
Aug 24, 2020
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