Divorce, the legal dissolution of marriage, can be driven by a variety of factors, ranging from changes in the economic status or health conditions of spouses to contrasting values. The end of a marriage can […]
Place-based crime-prevention interventions have been critiqued for the short duration of reductions in crime they produce. In a new study, researchers evaluated the long-term impacts of a large public closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance project in […]
Frustrated with which dating app to use? Unable to find “the one?” Spare a thought for some of the animal kingdom, where humanity has hampered their efforts to find a mate.This post was originally published […]
We may never know if St. Valentine, a martyr beheaded for officiating the forbidden weddings of persecuted Christians, was keen on chocolate and flowers. But we do know that millions of people around the world […]
Biodiversity loss has accelerated at an alarming rate in recent decades, driven largely by human activities such as clearing forests to grow crops or harvest timber. While countries often degrade ecosystems within their own borders […]
In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural carbon sinks: those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they release. While scientists […]
The greater Los Angeles area has long been the subject of intense seismographic monitoring. A network of highly sensitive seismometers peppers the region on a constant vigil for earthquakes.This post was originally published on this […]
Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world—and this could drive an even steeper decline in the planet’s species, according to a team of […]
Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that journey to nearby Año Nuevo Natural Reserve. With the seals gathering on the beach by […]
In tropical forests, endangered species inside protected habitats are still in danger from threats from beyond their sanctuaries, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Ilaria Greco and Francesco Rovero […]
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