Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly
Acclimatization societies believed that animals could fill the gaps of a deficient environment.
Acclimatization societies believed that animals could fill the gaps of a deficient environment.
Starting Feb. 6, 2020, California farmers will be barred from using chlorpyrifos on their crops. The Trump administration…
A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.
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Research in Sicily finds that anti-immigration policies don't slow the flow of immigrants, but do hurt local residents…
Mayflies and stone flies are extremely vulnerable to water pollution, which has implications for the larger food chain.
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The group seemed to be doing all of the right things to diversify its ranks. It wasn't enough.
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The dean of the only school of philanthropy sees some good in the attention charity-related scandals are generating.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a scholar of mass atrocities explains the power of Holocaust images and why these images,…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who spent four years in a refugee camp, was recently criticized for saying that talk about war…
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