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5,512 results for: Forests

  1. Plants

    The Wood Detective

    Alex Wiedenhoeft belongs to the elite profession of wood identifier, the person to call when a crime investigator, museum curator, archaeologist, or patent attorney with an unusual client really needs to know what that splinter really is.

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  2. Archaeology

    Early New World Settlers Rise in East

    New evidence supports the view that people occupied a site in coastal Virginia at least 15,000 years ago.

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  3. Math

    Doing the Wave

    It was the first home game of the season for the University of Maryland football team. About 48,000 fans had crowded into Byrd Stadium to watch the Terrapins take on the University of Akron Zips. Inevitably, during a lull in what turned out to be a rather one-sided contest, the assembled spectators created their own […]

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  4. Earth

    New test traces underground forest carbon

    An unusual method of studying soil respiration by girdling trees may clear up several vital mysteries in the way carbon cycles through forests.

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  5. Ecosystems

    Are They Really Extinct?

    A few optimists keep looking for species that might already have gone extinct.

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  6. Humans

    Small Steps: World Summit delegates wrangle over eco-friendly future

    Twenty thousand delegates from around the world met in Johannesburg last week for a contentious World Summit on Sustainable Development.

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  7. After West Nile Virus

    As biologists try to estimate the impact of West Nile virus on wildlife, it's not the famously susceptible crows that are causing alarm but much rarer species.

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  8. Geneticists define new elephant species

    A new study of the genetics of African elephants shows that forest dwellers differ so much from those roaming the savannas that the two may be separate species.

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  9. Ecosystems

    Spring Forward

    Scientists who study biological responses to seasonal and climatic changes have noted that the annual cycles for many organisms are beginning earlier on average, as global temperatures rise.

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  10. From the June 11, 1932, issue

    BUTTERFLIES, “WINGED JEWELS,” ARE GEMS AT START OF LIFE Butterflies have been called “winged jewels” so often that the conceit can hardly be considered poetic any longer. Yet the appropriateness of the old metaphor receives new confirmation when we look at the egg of a butterfly, which represents the humblest beginning of its career of […]

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  11. Anthropology

    Evolution’s Surprise: Fossil find uproots our early ancestors

    Researchers announced the discovery of a nearly complete fossil skull, along with jaw fragments and isolated teeth, from the earliest known member of the human evolutionary family, which lived in central Africa between 7 million and 6 million years ago.

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  12. Why Fly into a Forest Fire?

    Scientists puzzle over why some wasps and beetles race to forest fires.

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