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5,496 results for: Forests

  1. Agriculture

    Farm Fresh Pesticides

    For people who live near croplands, traces of agricultural chemicals can find their way into homes by hitchhiking on windblown dust.

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  2. 19607

    I was wondering if researchers have given any thought to the idea that in the same way that disease devastated human populations after the European discovery of the Americas, perhaps disease was a contributing factor in the demise of much of the fauna of the Western Hemisphere. Could domesticated animals traveling with the humans, or […]

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  3. Ecosystems

    Life Underfoot: Microbial biodiversity takes surprising twist

    When it comes to numbers of bacterial species, rainforest dirt is virtually a desert, but desert dirt bursts with biodiversity.

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  4. Humans

    Letters from the January 7, 2006, issue of Science News

    Death in the Americas I was wondering if researchers have given any thought to the idea that in the same way that disease devastated human populations after the European discovery of the Americas, perhaps disease was a contributing factor in the demise of much of the fauna of the Western Hemisphere (“Caribbean Extinctions: Climate change […]

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  5. Anthropology

    Wild gorillas take time for tool use

    Gorillas that balance on walking sticks and trudge across makeshift bridges have provided the first evidence of tool use among these creatures in the wild.

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  6. Humans

    Venting Concerns

    Scientists have developed a code of conduct to guide their research and activities at hydrothermal vents.

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  7. Animals

    Save the Tapir

    Tapirs are relatives of horses and rhinos. Sometimes known as “living fossils,” these unusual animals inhabit jungle and forest lands in Central and South America and Southeast Asia. The Tapir Gallery provides information about tapirs, including images and an extensive bibliography. A student section of the Web site, produced by the Tapir Preservation Fund, provides […]

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  8. Earth

    Greenhouse Plants? Vegetation may produce methane

    Lab tests suggest that a wide variety of plants may routinely do something that scientists previously thought impossible; produce methane in significant quantities in an oxygenated environment.

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  9. Paleontology

    Out of the Shadows

    An ongoing flurry of fossil finds is triggering a reevaluation of how early mammals and their close kin eked out an existence during the Age of Dinosaurs.

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  10. Animals

    When a chipmunk teases a rattlesnake

    Several of the Northeast's least ferocious forest creatures taunt rattlesnakes.

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  11. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2006

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2006.

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  12. Paleontology

    Bone Hunt

    Science News reporter Sid Perkins recounts the trials and tribulations of digging for dinosaurs in central Montana.

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