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Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than half a century ago is...
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War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
Ezgi Canpolat, Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University -
The oil-dependent world is in crisis. Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas flow...
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Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how
The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to spread more quickly. Diseases transmitted by insects present another evolutionary front: Insects themselves can evolve resistance to...
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Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
Each spring, river herring populations migrate from Massachusetts coastal waters to begin their annual journey up rivers and...
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Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy
The disruptions from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran spread quickly to commercial aircraft, shipping lanes and the world’s energy supply. Those repercussions have already hit fuel costs, including for motorists, truckers and fishermen,...
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Large heath butterflies are ‘canary in coal mine for climate change’
Could counting endangered large heath butterflies be used as an indicator of peatland health?
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A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global...
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Investigating Antarctic ice shelf melting with global navigation satellite systems
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are traditionally used for positioning, timing, and mapping information....
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3 Questions: Communicating about climate, in audio and beyond
Since her first journalism fellowship covering energy and the environment at the NPR station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,...
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The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
A few years ago, I took a zombie test. I had flown to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit neuroscientist Giulio...
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Awadh, Uttar Pradesh: India is restoring a centuries-old royal kitchen that never stopped serving food
According to historians, in 1839, Muhammad Ali Shah gave 3.6m rupees - considered a vast sum in those days...