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Comment on this story Comment It has been 140 years since scientists identified the black-naped pheasant pigeon in the mountainous tropical forests of Papua New Guinea’s Fergusson Island. Since then, the chicken-sized bird has been so elusive that ornithologists began comparing it to Bigfoot. Now, they’ve finally re-sighted it —
Regional environmental climatic issues and their consequences in LAC The impacts of climate change in the LAC region are observed in the atmosphere/hydroclimate, oceans, and cryosphere which directly impact the biosphere. They have been identified and quantified as altered precipitation regimes, higher atmospheric and sea-surface temperatures, higher risks of droughts, increasing aridity, glacier mass loss, […]
Regional environmental climatic issues and their consequences in LAC The impacts of climate change in the LAC region are observed in the atmosphere/hydroclimate, oceans, and cryosphere which directly impact the biosphere. They have been identified and quantified as altered precipitation regimes, higher atmospheric and sea-surface temperatures, higher risks of droughts, increasing aridity, glacier mass loss, […]
Nadia Sam-Agudu was 21 when she had her first direct experience of racism. She had just arrived in the United States from Ghana in 1994, with dreams of pursuing a medical career. But a roommate at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville — a white woman — barely acknowledged her presence and wouldn’t let her […]
CNN — Often when Dr. Thomas Valley sees a new patient in the intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, he clamps a pulse oximeter on their finger – one of the many devices he uses to gauge their health and what course of care they might require, whether they are a child […]
Where did the Black Death come from? And when did it first appear? As the deadliest pandemic in recorded history – it killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe and the Mediterranean between 1346 and 1353 — it’s a question that has plagued scientists and historians for nearly 700 years. Now, researchers say they’ve […]
In 2020, a white woman was taking a walk in New York’s Central Park when she was asked to leash her dog by Christian Cooper, a Black bird-watcher. She responded by calling the police and falsely accusing him of assault. Cooper caught the moment on his phone, the video went viral, and for Carlee Jackson and […]
What does the postponement of a plant genetics conference in the Australian tropics have to do with the death of a Black American at the hands of US police? They couldn’t seem further apart, but there’s a thread that connects them — a thread that became a lit fuse. In late January, an Australian organiser […]
Fresh off revealing its first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Event Horizon Telescope is ready to take its next steps by capturing movies of gas flowing turbulently onto a black hole. The two black hole images the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has produced so far — that of […]
by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed. Posted: May 20, 2022 / 08:44 PM EST / Updated: May 20, 2022 / 08:45 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The monkeypox virus was first detected in a lab in monkeys back in the 1950s. But now, it’s back and infecting people. News 8 spoke with Dr. Jennifer Chivensky, an […]