Two hours’ drive out of Tel Aviv, on the southern slopes of Mount Hebron, the Yatir Forest is the country’s largest planted woodland, with 4 million trees spread across 7,400 acres. Dense stands of Aleppo pine gird the hillsides, in vivid contrast to the dun-colored Negev desert.
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Fossil Fish Gives New Insights into The Evolution
An international research team led by Giuseppe Marramà from the Institute of Paleontology of the University of Vienna discovered a new and well-preserved fossil stingray with an exceptional anatomy, which greatly differs from living species.
Researchers Use Drones to Weigh Whales
How do you weigh a living whale? The obvious response is very carefully, but scientists can’t exactly put these large marine mammals on a scale.
NASA Examines Extra-tropical Large Lorenzo’s Rainfall
Lorenzo is still at hurricane force in the eastern North Atlantic has now transitioned to an extra-tropical cyclone and has grown in size.
Study: Carbon Emissions Soar as Tourism Reaches New Heights
A UTSA researcher is examining how the flight routes people take to get to tourist destinations impact the amount of pollution in the air in a newly published study he coauthored in the Annals of Tourism Research.
Plant Diversity a Casualty of High-Severity Wildfires
Sierra Nevada forests are losing plant diversity due to high-severity fires, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.


