For some fire-loving insects, wildfires provide the best breeding grounds
With the summer solstice and first official day of summer on June 21, hot and dry conditions have already given rise to a very active fire season across Canada.
With the summer solstice and first official day of summer on June 21, hot and dry conditions have already given rise to a very active fire season across Canada.
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2023
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Reforestation can not only sequester carbon, but also change the surface albedo, which is an important intervention in climate change. How the canopy/understory structure of secondary forests formed after reforestation affects ...
Ecology
Apr 19, 2023
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What was different about the deadly, record-breaking heat wave in June 2021 that made it so much more extreme than anything the Pacific Northwest had experienced before?
Environment
Mar 8, 2023
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China's National Space Administration (CNSA) has been hoping to reestablish communications with the Zhurong Mars rover, but so far, their efforts have been unsuccessful. Zhurong was put into hibernation over six months ago ...
Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2023
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After the driest start to any year on record, California will end 2022 with snow-capped mountains, soaked roadways and—in some places—flood warnings.
Environment
Dec 30, 2022
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Researchers of the University of Malaga (UMA) and the University of Jaen (UJA) have discovered Egypt's oldest tomb oriented to the winter solstice. Located in the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan), it is precisely oriented ...
Archaeology
Nov 18, 2022
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At the end of each summer, hordes of people flock to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to erect a makeshift city the size of the Italian town of Pisa. They call it Black Rock City. A few days later, they will burn it to the ...
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2022
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I'm outside at my rural Saskatchewan farm, chatting with my neighbors who I've invited over to appreciate the night sky through my telescope. After exclamations and open-mouthed wonder over Saturn's rings, and light that ...
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2021
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The lousiest year in living memory will end with an offering of heavenly wonder: a Christmas Star.
Astronomy
Dec 7, 2020
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More than 10 years since its discovery, (225088) 2007 OR10 is the largest minor planet in our solar system without a name, and the 3 astronomers who discovered it want the public's help to change that. In an article published ...
Space Exploration
Apr 11, 2019
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