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5,496 results for: Forests

  1. Climate

    EPA asks: Could you drive less?

    Gas prices may need to climb more before most of us do the right thing.

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  2. Ecosystems

    Bring in the replacements

    Missing links in ecosystems disrupted by extinctions could be restored by introducing species that perform the same function, new field experiments suggest.

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  3. Math

    The Power of Being Influenced

    Network theory shows that the best way to spread ideas is to focus on people who are influenced rather than the influential.

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  4. Paleontology

    China was an ancient-ape paradise

    Fossil dig uncovers the oldest known remains of ancestral gibbons

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  5. Humans

    An earlier thaw can trim winter logging

    In New Hampshire, the trend toward earlier spring thaws has significantly lowered logging revenues.

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  6. Earth

    A Feverish World

    What's behind global warming—and is there anything we can do?

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  7. Humans

    Slowpoke settlers

    Evidence suggests New World settlers slowly moved down the Pacific Coast and inhabited southern Chile by 14,000 years ago.

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  8. Letters

    A little gravity “Britain’s biggest meteorite strike” (SN: 4/12/08, p. 238) states that “gravitational anomalies” make an offshore area a prime candidate as the possible impact site of a meteorite. Wouldn’t that be magnetic anomalies instead? If it is a gravitational anomaly, I would sure like an article on that alone! Thanks for the great […]

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  9. Life

    Evolution’s Evolution

    Darwin’s dangerous idea has adapted to modern biology

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  10. Animals

    Pandamonium over a Tiny Pest

    A parasite threatens efforts to protect China's endangered icon.

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  11. Paleontology

    Forest Primeval: The oldest known trees finally gain a crown

    Recently unearthed fossils provide new insights about the appearance of the world's oldest known trees, plants that previously were known only from preserved stumps.

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  12. Earth

    Invasive, Indeed

    Some people may live lightly on the land, but the demands of the world's population as a whole consume nearly a quarter of Earth's total biological productivity.

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