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5,510 results for: Forests

  1. Life

    City lights create sexual early birds

    Male blackbirds exposed to nocturnal illumination are ready to mate sooner in spring.

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  2. Earth

    Arctic’s wintry blanket can be warming

    Forested snowscapes keep northern soils relatively toasty, diminishing how much climate-warming carbon they can sequester from the atmosphere.

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  3. Life

    As Brood II emerges, questions remain about cicada cycles

    The how and why of years lived underground are among the unsolved mysteries about the loud, obvious insects.

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  4. Saving primates with a dog and scat

    View the video Graduate student Joseph Orkin, left, follows canine field assistant Pinkerton on a hunt for primate poop. Sun Guo-Zheng Joseph Orkin has found an unusual way to study highly endangered — and highly elusive — primates in southwestern China. Orkin hikes into isolated mountaintop forests accompanied by a four-legged assistant who avidly sniffs out scat left by […]

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  5. Archaeology

    What the Maya really have to tell us about the end of the world

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  6. Microbes

    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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  7. Fly guy

    Brian Brown can discover a new kind of fly anywhere. He often takes up the search in exotic locales such as New Zealand, Chile or Taiwan, but he’s not picky. Once, he was challenged to find a new species in a Los Angeles backyard. After setting a trap and waiting, he pulled out a winner: […]

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  8. Life

    Hind wings gave four-winged dino flight control

    Much-debated rear wings could have given Microraptor extra help in airborne maneuvers.

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  9. Science & Society

    Insect illustrator

    Taina Litwak is an “art department of one” in D.C. for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Systematic Entomology Laboratory.

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  10. Humans

    Ancient hominid had an unusual diet

    A long-extinct member of the human evolutionary family had an uncommon taste for grasses and sedges.

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  11. Climate

    Amazon may become greenhouse gas emitter

    South America’s massive rain forest may soon release more carbon into the atmosphere than it absorbs.

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  12. Life

    Culture results when chimps get cracking

    Adjacent groups in Africa follow different traditions when it comes to opening nuts.

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