Written accounts of Native Americans cultivating the land in New England overstate the importance of agriculture in the pre-contact period, according to a new study.
New England’s Forest Primeval
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Human-Sparked Fires Smaller, Less Intense, but More Frequent with Longer Seasons
Increasing ignitions by people contribute to ‘new normal’ for U.S. wildfire characteristics.
Belly Fat Linked With Repeat Heart Attacks
Heart attack survivors who carry excess fat around their waist are at increased risk of another heart attack, according to research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
A Decline in Asian Dust
Changing winds and more vegetation are probably contributing to the trend.
Preparing Land for Palm Oil Causes Most Climate Damage
New research has found preparing land for palm oil plantations and the growth of young plants causes significantly more damage to the environment, emitting double the amount of greenhouse gases than mature plantations.
Addressing Global Warming With New Nanoparticles and Sunshine
Harvesting sunlight, researchers of the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea) published in Materials Today a new strategy to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen (O2) and pure carbon monoxide (CO) without side-products in water.
