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5,507 results for: Forests

  1. Genetics

    Today’s information revolution illuminates diseases spread in the age of discovery

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  2. Climate

    Humans’ greenhouse gas emissions throw next ice age off schedule

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  3. Life

    Daytime bites for zombie ants

    The living dead of the insect world show an unexplained sense of timing: a surge of strange activity in the a.m. followed by a final death grip at midday.

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  4. Earth

    The facts behind the frack

    The gas, primarily methane, is cheap and relatively clean. Because America is brimful of the stuff, harvesting the fuel via fracking could provide the country jobs and reduce its dependence on foreign sources of energy.

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  5. Ecosystems

    Forests on the wane

    Early last decade, the world’s tree coverage dropped by more than 3 percent.

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  6. Life

    Worries grow over monarch butterflies

    Migrants overwintering in Mexico rebounded somewhat this past winter, but still trending downward.

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  7. Earth

    Forest loss slows in Brazilian Amazon

    Between 2004 and 2009, the rate of clearing dropped almost 75 percent.

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  8. Anthropology

    American Association of Physical Anthropologists

    Hobbit dentistry, ancient footprints and navigating gibbons in news from the recent physical anthropology meeting.

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  9. Life

    Genes separate Africa’s elephant herds

    Genetic work reveals forest and savanna pachyderms as distinct species.

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  10. Life

    When snowpack shrinks, elk can binge on aspen

    As winters warm in the Rockies, majestic grazers may be threatening iconic Western tree.

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  11. Earth

    Earth & Environment

    Methane from rice, killer fungus and more in this week’s news.

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  12. Humans

    Climate meddling dates back 8,000 years

    Cutting down trees put lots of carbon into the atmosphere long before the industrial revolution began.

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