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- Life
Bird feeding, migration could be splitting a species
German birds that spend the off-season at U.K. birdfeeders now look slightly different from neighbors that migrate to Spain
- Life
Dinosaurs broiled, not grilled
Debris from K-T impact could have been heat source and heat shield.
- Climate
Warming has already boosted insect breeding
Museum records, publications suggest extra generations at same time as temperature increases
- Life
Moss counters shortness with A-bomb-style clouds
Sphagnum overcomes drag by launching its spores in vortex rings.
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Let Them Eat Shrimp: The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea by Kennedy Warne
For anyone wondering just what the heck “rainforests of the sea” might be, they’re the world’s largely unsung, highly imperiled, biologically fabulous coastal forests of mangroves. And it’s a telling point that the word mangroves does not appear on the cover of a book devoted to their marvels and troubles. LET THEM EAT SHRIMP: THE […]
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BOOK REVIEW: The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe
Review by Erika Engelhaupt.
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Book Review: Relics: Travels in Nature’s Time Machine by Piotr Naskrecki
Review by Allison Bohac.
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Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See by Bill Finch, Beth M. Young, Rhett Johnson and John C. Hall
A series of photographs enriches this tribute to disappearing longleaf pine forests, which once covered over 90 million acres of North America. Univ. of North Carolina, 2012, 176 p., $35
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- Science & Society
Between Man and Beast
An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel.
