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'It cuts both ways': Positive tipping points can restore wreaked ecosystems — we just need to trigger them, Earth system scientist Tim Lenton says
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'It cuts both ways': Positive tipping points can restore wreaked ecosystems — we just need to trigger them, Earth system scientist Tim Lenton says

Live Science spoke with Tim Lenton, founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, about human actions that can trigger positive, self-propelling changes in nature.

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'Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid
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'Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid

From Live Science: 'Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid

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Drilling has begun at our sacred site Pe' Sla, setting a dangerous precedent for Indigenous lands across the country. It must be stopped.
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Drilling has begun at our sacred site Pe' Sla, setting a dangerous precedent for Indigenous lands across the country. It must be stopped.

Drilling in the 2-mile buffer zone of Pe' Sla, in the He Sapa (Black Hills) of South Dakota, shows even sacred lands protected by the U.S. government are not safe from the threat of destruction — and it should ring alarm bells everywhere.

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'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds…
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'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds…

In this excerpt from "The Story of Birds", author Steve Brusatte explores the moment where paleontologists realized they had critical evidence to show birds came from dinosaurs — a fluffy fossil from China.

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Neanderthals' brains weren't to blame for their demise, new study suggests
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Neanderthals' brains weren't to blame for their demise, new study suggests

Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains differed from modern humans', calling into question the reason our evolutionary cousins mysteriously disappeared.

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