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The water on Mars may not be accessible to humans
2016-07-08 22:21:02| Extremetech
Several years ago, researchers thought they'd found surface water flowing on Mars. That might be true -- but new research suggests human explorers may not be able to tap these flows in a helpful way.
Climate change, not humans, killed off megafauna
2016-07-02 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: It's a contentious question. Why did the giant kangaroos and rhino-sized wombats that once roamed Australia die out? Scientists agree there are two contenders: climate change and humans. But they are fiercely divided over which caused the continent's megafauna to go extinct. Now, fresh results of a study at a renowned Victorian fossil site in the Macedon Ranges town of Lancefield 73 kilometres north of Melbourne has provided an answer. The diprotodon was a rhino-sized wombat that weighed...
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'Perfect Storm' of Humans and Climate Change Doomed Ice Age Giants
2016-07-02 03:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The saber-toothed cat, large ground sloth and other ice age giants of South America didn't go extinct solely because of climate change or prehistoric human activity, but because of a perfect storm of the two that hit the giant beasts at the same time, a new study finds. For years, researchers have debated what felled many of the megafauna animals that weigh more than 100 lbs. (45 kilograms) shortly after the end of the last ice age. Some scientists blamed humans, who had newly colonized the...
Humans Put Amazon to More Danger, Fires
2016-06-30 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Illegal burning clears brush and small trees in order to clear land for agriculture in an already deforested section of Amazon rainforest on June 11, 2012 in Para state, Brazil. Although deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 80 percent since 2004, environmentalists fear recent changes to the Forest Code will lead to further destruction. Around 20 percent of the rainforest has already been destroyed. Threats to the Amazon rainforest are more wide-ranging than people realize, revealed a...
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Treatment of Humans and Pigs May Reduce Endemic Tapeworm Infection
2016-06-27 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The transmission of Taenia solium, a pork tapeworm species that infects humans and causes late-onset seizures and epilepsy, can be stopped on a population-wide level with mass treatments of both pigs and humans, researchers have shown.
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