Tag: conservation
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Living in a Material World: The Emerging Danger of Small Plastics
There is a threat lurking among us, an invisible threat that has been around us for over one hundred years. You may not see it, but it’s all around you; in the food you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe and your body itself. The threat? Cold, hard, shiny plastic.
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Peckings Cause Brain Damage in Woodpeckers: Nay or Yay?
I remember seeing a woodpecker in my grandma’s home when I was around seven or eight. It happily pecked at a wooden pillar in the garden with its beak. “This is what they do all the time! It is their natural behavior,” my grandma said. After a long time, early this year, when we had…
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A Race Against Climate Change for California’s Forests
From what I’ve seen of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, there’s one scene that stands out to me as a scientist. In The Two Towers, there’s a tree that comes to life and begins walking. These “Ents” are some of the oldest and largest living things in the fantasy world of Middle-earth. The Ents remind me of our coastal redwoods…
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