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Scientists Are Sticking Cameras On Whales To Explore The Changing Antarctic
The waters surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula are warming rapidly, yet we know very little about how this is impacting some of the region’s most charismatic denizens: the filter-feeding baleen whales that call this icy realm home. But a team of scientists is hoping to change that with the help of their flippered subjects. They’re flying…
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Does My Smartwatch’s Sleep Tracker Actually Do Anything?
For most of my adult life, I didn’t really think about sleep: It was just an activity that my body required, for about six-to-eight hours a night, in order to not feel like garbage the next day. Rarely did I pause to consider the quality of my rest or whether my sleep patterns were “normal.”…
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How Elephants May Help Africa’s Rainforests Fight Climate Change
Although we’re wiping them out with little consideration of it, big herbivores matter. Hippo poop helps Africa’s largest lake flourish, bison wallowing can enhance insect diversity in the prairie and Africa’s imperilled forest elephants might just have a role to play in the fight against climate change.
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Meet The People Risking Their Lives To Study Our Dying Mountain Glaciers
When geoscientist and mountaineer John All started studying the impacts of climate change on world’s highest mountain glaciers over a decade ago, he said it was like monitoring a sick patient. Now, it’s more like doing an autopsy.