Tag: nature

Peckings Cause Brain Damage in Woodpeckers: Nay or Yay?

Dec 6, 2023

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Lauren Girouard-Hallam

in Animal and Plant Biology

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…
A Race Against Climate Change for California’s Forests

Mar 3, 2023

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by

Lauren Girouard-Hallam

in Climate

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…