A rare set of nearly 10,000-year-old human bones found in 1976 on a seaside bluff in La Jolla, Calif., may soon be removed from the custody of the University of California, San Diego, and turned over to the local Kumeyaay Nation tribes.
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Feed SubscriptionActivists Ground Flying Monkeys
By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine Each year, thousands of macaques and other monkeys are flown into Europe and North America to supply academic and industrial research labs -- more than 18,000 to the United States in 2011 alone. [More]
Read More »Drilling for Oil in Eden: Initiative to Save Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador is Uncertain
Pumping gasoline in Quito, Ecuador. Oil drilling threatens the Yasun rainforest
Read More »First Horses Shrunk by Warming Climate
The first horses in North America would not have been able to hold their own in the Triple Crown . At just about 5.6 kilograms the Sifrhippus sandrae hoofed onto the scene some 56 million years ago about the size of a small dog. [More]
Read More »Project FeederWatch
A monitoring program for more than 100 bird species that winter in North America [More]
Read More »Robins Found Guilty in West Nile Virus Spread
West Nile virus first appeared in North America in 1999. And it quickly moved across the continent.
Read More »Infographic: A Driving Tour Of Global Car Sharing
This interactive infographic explains some of the benefits of car sharing, and how it's revving up around the world. Most urban Americans are--by this point--likely aware of car sharing and the potential benefits it can bring. Owning a car can be an expensive proposition, given upkeep, parking, and insurance
Read More »Hellbender Salamander Gets Endangered Species Designation, but No Habitat Protection–and That May Be a Good Thing
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Read More »Hellbender Salamander Gets Endangered Species Designation, but No Habitat Protection–and That May Be a Good Thing
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Read More »Why It’s Not A Bad Thing For Solar Power That Solyndra Went Bankrupt
The end of the solar company--with $1 billion in investments and hundreds of millions in government loans--is bad for the U.S. economy.
Read More »How to Prepare for a Hurricane in the U.S. Northeast
It’s not that the central and northern portions of the east coast of North America never see hurricanes. [More]
Read More »Impatient For The Smart Grid, Microgrids Establish Their Own Power Systems
Utilities are big and slow and doing a bad job preparing for the smart-grid-enabled future. Those who can't wait are setting up smaller grids, which are becoming test sites for smart energy management technology
Read More »The Mille Miglia Comes to America
Some 300 classic sports cars will descend upon the Monterey Peninsula in California for the first annual Mille Miglia North America Tribute. A legend among auto-racing enthusiasts, the original Mille Miglia was a 1,000-mile endurance race held on public roads in Italy for 24 years between 1927 and 1957. When ...
Read More »The Mille Miglia Comes to America
Some 300 classic sports cars will descend upon the Monterey Peninsula in California for the first annual Mille Miglia North America Tribute. A legend among auto-racing enthusiasts, the original Mille Miglia was a 1,000-mile endurance race held on public roads in Italy for 24 years between 1927 and 1957. When ...
Read More »World’s First Transatlantic Flight… on Biofuels [Video]
This past weekend, the Paris Air Show witnessed two historic firsts: the first transatlantic flight on biofuels , closely followed by the second, which involved a much larger jet (although a smaller percentage of bio-jet fuel).
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