Weekly Roundup | Earth and Nature: Top 20 stories of the week of May 25th - June 1st, 2017
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." - John Muir
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Mummy DNA shows that the ancients don’t have much in common with modern Egyptians
Scientists have extracted and analyzed DNA from mummies that are thousands of years old, and they have found that the ancient Egyptians are actually more genetically similar to people living today...
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Submitted on May 30th 2017 by geoleo
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2 +16y+ ago
Elon Musk threatens to leave White House councils over Paris deal
Musk has emerged as the Trump White House's go-to tech industry executive.
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Submitted on May 31st 2017 by aj0690 with 1 comments
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3 +16y+ ago
Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton
John Bevis explores the various feats of cunning and subterfuge undertaken by the Kearton brothers — among the very first professional wildlife photographers — in their pioneering attempts to get ever closer to their subjects.
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Submitted on May 28th 2017 by gladsdotter
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4 +16y+ ago
Cerro Torre Mountain
A shot from the hike up to the base camp through the autumnal coloured forest below Cerro Torre Mountain one of the most recognisable with it's distinctive pointed peak standing 3128m high.
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Submitted on May 30th 2017 by TNY with 1 comments
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5 +16y+ ago
New Seafloor Map Reveals How Strange the Gulf of Mexico Is
Data gathered by oil exploration companies was combined to create the highest resolution map ever made of the area.
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Submitted on May 26th 2017 by gladsdotter
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6 +16y+ ago
Storage of nuclear waste poses threat to U.S., scientists warn
The reluctance of U.S. federal regulators to require operators of nuclear reactors to spend $5 billion to enhance the security of spent fuel rods stored underground threatens the country with a potential catastrophe, scientists warned on Friday.
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Submitted on May 28th 2017 by jcscher with 1 comments
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7 +16y+ ago
The Spider Web That Gets Stronger When It Touches Insects
Its threads reinforce themselves by sucking up chemicals from the victim’s own shell.
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Submitted on May 31st 2017 by gladsdotter
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8 +16y+ ago
Wolves need space to roam to control expanding coyote populations
Wolves and other top predators need large ranges to be able to control smaller predators whose populations have expanded to the detriment of a balanced ecosystem. That’s the main finding of a study appearing May 23 in Nature Communications that analyzed the relationship between top predators on three different continents and the next-in-line predators they eat and compete with. The results were similar across continents, showing that as top predators’ ranges were cut back and fragmented, they were no longer able to control smaller predators.
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Submitted on May 27th 2017 by TNY
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9 +16y+ ago
World’s largest floating solar plant begins operations in China
China has announced that the World’s largest floating solar farm has finally been completed and connected to the local power grid. The plant, located on a coal mining subsidence area in Eastern China's Anhui province has a capacity of 40 megawatts.
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Submitted on May 28th 2017 by geoleo
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10 +16y+ ago
The Shadows Left by Invasive Plants
They change ecosystems quickly, and leave impacts even after they're removed.
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Submitted on May 30th 2017 by gladsdotter
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11 +16y+ ago
100 Practical Ways to Reverse Climate Change
You know some of them—use renewable energy, eat less meat—but others will surprise you. By Simon Worrall.
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Submitted on May 30th 2017 by AdelleChattre
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12 +16y+ ago
Alaska’s tiny, restless Bogoslof volcano erupts again -- and researchers won't be going there anytime soon
The volcano, on a tiny island on the southern edge of the Bering Sea, is so active that researchers have halted plans to visit this summer.
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Submitted on May 30th 2017 by gladsdotter
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13 +16y+ ago
The Ghost of Climate-Change Future
As record-breaking high tides overwhelm Hawaii, people are getting a preview of what life will be like in the decades to come.
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Submitted on May 30th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments
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14 +16y+ ago
First-Ever Look at the Intricate Way Ladybugs Fold Their Wings
For the first time, scientists are getting a view of the inner workings of ladybug wings.
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Submitted on May 29th 2017 by canuck with 2 comments
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15 +16y+ ago
Humans are ushering in the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, scientists warn
'Extinction rates for birds, mammals and amphibians are similar to the five global mass-extinction events of the past 500 million years that probably resulted from meteorite impacts, massive volcanism and other cataclysmic forces'
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Submitted on May 31st 2017 by wetwilly87
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16 +16y+ ago
How a dog's diet shapes its gut microbiome
Studies of the gut microbiome have gone to the dogs -- and pets around the world could benefit as a result. In a new paper, researchers report that the ratio of proteins and carbohydrates in a canine's daily diet have a significant influence on the balance of microbes in its gut. Researchers observed that dogs fed a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet had enriched microbial gene networks associated with weight loss in humans.
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Submitted on May 30th 2017 by Gozzin
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17 +16y+ ago
Testing the myth that global warming is leveling off
Has the Earth already reached peak warming? Has climate change leveled off, leaving us to adjust to a new, warmer normal? Not according to satellite measurements, say the authors of a paper published yesterday in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Submitted on May 27th 2017 by kxh
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18 +16y+ ago
I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore
Ars technical director: "I, I, I... think we need to call 911."
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Submitted on May 28th 2017 by kxh
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19 +16y+ ago
Waves Rippled Through Greenland’s Ice. That’s Ominous
A previously unobserved phenomenon has roiled the interior of one of Greenland’s glaciers. By Brian Kahn.
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Submitted on May 27th 2017 by AdelleChattre
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20 +16y+ ago
Male Fish Borrows Egg to Clone Itself
A fish created by spontaneous androgenesis is the first known vertebrate to arise naturally by this asexual reproductive phenomenon.
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Submitted on May 28th 2017 by Gozzin
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