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Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

President Donald Trump approved on Monday the construction of a 211-mile road right through the Brooks Range Foothills and across the Northwestern Alaskan Arctic, including 26 miles of Gates of the Arctic National Park. The administration justified its decision to allow a mining company to carve through the arctic foothills with a simple explanation: Building the road will benefit the …

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Camera trap in Chile detects strange lights blazing through the wilderness. Researchers are scrambling to explain them.

Camera trap in Chile detects strange lights blazing through the wilderness. Researchers are scrambling to explain them.

On Jan. 21, at 12:22 a.m. local time, in the silence and darkness of Chile’s Patagonia region, a camera trap used to monitor wildlife for a project run by the University of Magallanes (UMAG) captured, in 2 seconds, three photographs showing intense lights moving downward. Everyone was baffled. “On a camera located at the edge of a meadow, quite far …

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1.1-million-year-old mammoth discovered in Siberian wilderness. What scientists find in its DNA has got them excited

1.1-million-year-old mammoth discovered in Siberian wilderness. What scientists find in its DNA has got them excited

When it comes to interactions between animals and microbes in the ancient past, focus has primarily been on humans and our closest ancestors rather than extinct animals, such as mammoths. A new study led by Benjamin Guinet from the Swedish Museum of Natural History has analysed microbial DNA from no fewer than 483 mammoth remains. These remains span over one …

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