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Extinctions and shrinking habitat are driving 'rewilding' in cities

Extinctions and shrinking habitat are driving ‘rewilding’ in cities

DETROIT (AP) — In a bustling metropolitan area of ​​4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into secluded thickets to study Detroit’s most elusive inhabitants — coyotes , foxes, raccoons and skunks among them. Harris and his colleagues have placed surveillance cameras in the wooded sections of 25 city parks over the …

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Relentless carbon is shrinking Earth's upper atmosphere, scientists warn

Relentless carbon is shrinking Earth’s upper atmosphere, scientists warn

Rising levels of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere could exacerbate efforts to clean our increasingly cluttered shell of orbiting space debris. Greenhouse gas has contributed significantly to the contraction of the upper atmosphere, according to two new studies. This contraction has been assumed for decades; now, for the first time, this has actually been observed. …

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