The following is a Public Release by Eurika.org, dated September 25 and with the title above: Permafrost thaw drives forest loss in Canada, while drought has killed trees in Panama, southern India, and Borneo. In the U.S., in Virginia, over-abundant deer eat trees before they reach maturity, while nitrogen pollution has changed soil chemistry in Canada and Panama. Continents apart, these changes have all been documented by the...
Read MoreAccording to a news release by The Geological Society of America, titled “Researchers Reveal New Rock Formation in Colorado,” “an astonishing new rock formation has been revealed in the Colorado Rockies, and it exists in a deeply perplexing relationship with older rocks. Named the Tava sandstone, this sedimentary rock forms intrusions within the ancient granites and gneisses that form the backbone of the Colorado...
Read MoreThe following is a public release by the Emory news center on September 19, titled “Evolution of responses to (un)fairness”: The sense of fairness did not evolve for the sake of fairness per se but in order to reap the benefits of continued cooperation, so say Frans de Waal, PhD, and Sarah Brosnan, PhD, co-authors of a review article about inequity aversion (IA), which is defined as a negative reaction to unequal outcomes....
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