Naviglio Grande, the oldest navigable canal in Europe

Biologist Claudio Sillero first observed a curious behavior among Ethiopian wolves in the 1980s: these carnivores were licking the flowers of the red hot poker plant, native to Ethiopia’s highlands. New research now confirms this behavior and suggests that these wolves might act as unexpected pollinators. Published in Ecology in November, the study documents Ethiopian […]
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The average person generates 4.9 pounds of waste each day, with more than 146 million…
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A team of scientists in Germany and the United States has found that many tall, heavy buildings along South Florida’s coast are sinking into the earth much faster than expected. The researchers compared several years of satellite images to glean more information about continuing subsidence — where the altitude of a piece of land becomes […]
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