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2025-08-15 @ 16.51.41 ∈ In English

Arctic reindeer populations could decline by 80% by 2100
[Future] climatic change is likely to cause declines in reindeer abundances and their distribution at rates rarely seen over the last 21,000 years. […] The research team identified populations in North America as being particularly vulnerable.
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2025-08-15 @ 16.44.08 ∈ In English

Policy of transience
I consider all of these habits to be instances of a general “policy of transience”, which says: things should either be deliberately permanent in an organised way, or strictly temporary. I dislike things accidentally turning out to last for ever.
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2025-08-07 @ 18.02.45 ∈ In English

Why do children take things so literally?
This literal phase does not stem from an inability to comprehend non-literal language, such as metaphors and irony. "But the developmental phase often leads them to prefer clear and precise communication," says [Ingrid Lossius Falkum, professor of linguistics and philosophy of communication at UiO.]
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2025-08-07 @ 17.57.57 ∈ In English

Birds found thriving in a very large commercial forest in Maine
North America has lost an estimated 3 billion birds since 1970—a nearly 30% drop across species—mostly due to habitat loss and degradation. So when a team of researchers repeated a bird population study they did 30 years earlier in a very large commercial forest landscape in Maine, they were stunned to find more birds than before.
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2025-08-05 @ 17.33.45 ∈ In English

Southern Small White reaches Britain for first time
The long-anticipated first British records of Southern Small White have occurred this summer, with recent sightings from Cleveland and Suffolk.
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2025-08-05 @ 17.13.54 ∈ In English

Midwestern butterfly count: Big data yields bad news and clues
59 of the 136 species declined in abundance over the study. That means for every 10 species and 100 individuals present at a county at the beginning of the study period, there are now only nine species and 60 individuals.
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2025-08-05 @ 17.04.35 ∈ In English

Death rates from cardiovascular disease have fallen dramatically — what were the breakthroughs behind this?
Over a century of progress in surgery, drugs, prevention, and emergency response has driven down death rates from heart disease and stroke.
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2025-07-31 @ 18.44.17 ∈ In English

There’s a New Record for the Longest Lightning Flash - Eos
[829 kilometers is now] the longest lightning bolt ever recorded. […] A new analysis of satellite data has revealed that a 22 October 2017 storm over the U.S. Midwest created a lightning bolt that reached [̣̣̣…] from eastern Texas to nearly Kansas City. The record-setting bolt lasted about 7 seconds.
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2025-07-30 @ 19.48.28 ∈ In English

Mom on the Menu
While the parental duties of many arthropods cease after egg laying, the females of some centipede species—like this one from the Scolopendra genus—are more devoted mothers.