IIt is one of South Africa’s largest nature reserves, where endangered hippos, elephants and black rhinos live among wetlands, savannah and lakes. But the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site favored by wealthy ecotourists for its biodiversity, is also the scene of an increasingly deadly battle between the people who live there and …
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — Armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs may have wielded hammer-like tail clubs at each other in conflict, in addition to fending off predators like Tyrannosaurus rex. A well-preserved fossil of an ankylosaurus, a herbivorous dinosaur …
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ISouth of the Amazon, just at the crossroads of two dirt roads, is a small bar a little set back from the highway. There’s no name above the door because it’s part of a house, really, but everyone calls it Guiga’s bar, after its owner. Like many bars dotted around the area, Guiga’s is run …
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RENO, Nev. — A small Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal energy project has been officially declared an endangered species after US wildlife officials temporarily listed it on a rarely used emergency basis in last spring. “This decision makes the listing of the Dixie Valley toad final,” the US …
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“Dog owners” had argued “(1) Pit Bull-type dogs are no more or less dangerous than other dog breeds; (2) neither breed nor physical characteristics are predictive of a dog’s aggressiveness or biting propensity; and (3) the city’s method of identifying dogs as Pit Bulls is inherently unreliable. As for dangerousness, dog owners argued that canine …
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 23 (Reuters) – The United States is seeking to crack down on environmental criminals responsible for growing deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon, using sanctions such as the Magnitsky sanctions to fight climate change more aggressively, Reuters has been told. Reuters US sources and officials. The plan represents a major shift in Washington’s …
In early September, after unprecedented rains left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister presented the country’s position for COP27. “We are on the front line and intend to keep loss and damage and climate disaster adaptation at the heart of our arguments and negotiations. There will be no getting away from …
stay cool One of the main aims of COP27 was to bolster the emissions pledges made at last year’s climate summit in Glasgow. These are needed to ensure that global warming is limited to 1.5°C. No such pledges were made in Egypt and most observers now conclude that the world is destined to warm beyond …
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Protesters from the Ultima Generazione group hug a wall after throwing soup at Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sower at Sunset’ on November 4 in Rome. (Laura Lezza/Getty Images) According to a new survey conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. “Republicans, Democrats, Independents: In all cases, people reported that these actions made them less likely …
U of A System Division of Agriculture photo by Fred Miller Fiona Goggin, professor of entomology, center, with her research team, post-doctoral fellow Payal Sanadhya and Ph.D. graduate assistant Abeer Alnasrawi. There is hope on the horizon for soybean growers battling nematodes, the tiny roundworms that damaged more than $95 million in soybean crops in …
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