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More than 10,000 students attend UM, where they receive a world-class education in a broad range of subjects that include the liberal arts, graduate and postdoctoral study and professional training. Signature programs include Wildlife Biology, Ecology, Creative Writing, Journalism, and the Health Sciences.
Early writers on probability had explained how the ‘house advantage’ didn’t need to be large for a gambling enterprise to profit enormously. But gamblers and gambling operators were slow to catch on.
If the government takes grizzly bears off the Endangered Species List, some states will likely introduce a hunting season.
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A new study offers a rare window into the hidden effects of aggressive fire suppression that go beyond fuel accumulation. The practice may even change the course of forest evolution.
Attendees at evangelist Franklin Graham’s ‘Decision America’ tour in Turlock, Calif., in 2018. The tour was to encourage Christians to vote.
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The 2024 elections may see a more intense end-times rhetoric, claims of divine support and a failure to condemn the rise in Christian nationalism, writes a religion scholar.
Two crystalline materials together: kyanite (blue) embedded in quartz (white).
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There are a lot of myths about crystals − for example, that they are magical rocks with healing powers. An earth scientist explains some of their amazing true science.
Rocky Mountain fires leave telltale ash layers in nearby lakes like this one.
Philip Higuera
As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?
A Wyoming Hotshot crew conducts night operations on the Pine Gulch fire in Colorado in August 2020.
Kyle Miller, Wyoming Hotshots, USFS
Working a day on the firelines as a wildland firefighter can require the endurance of riding the Tour de France. That takes a toll, as a physiologist explains.
A forest-thinning project in Arizona leaves more open canopy and clearer ground.
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Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
A Southern Red Muntjac deer peering at a camera trap.
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The UN ‘30 by 30’ biodiversity strategy aims to set aside 30% of land as protected areas. New research shows these areas do support biodiversity, but big parks also increase it outside their borders.
Homeowners and local governments can take steps to help protect homes from fires.
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Adapting to our fiery future means preparing for the risks and not putting out every low-risk wildfire, writes the author of a new book on learning to live with fire.
Ruby Mountain hotshots construct a fire line during the Dixie Fire in 2021.
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Twenty-five years of research show what it takes to fuel wildland firefighters through an average day, and the toll the long seasonal work takes on their bodies.
Prévision de la localisation du panache d'aérosols provenant des mégafeux en cours au Canada pour mercredi 28 juin.
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Les fumées des mégafeux qui ravagent le Canada sont en train d’atteindre l’Europe et la France. Que contiennent ces panaches ? Leur composition varie-t-elle ? Et quel impact sur la santé ?
Ladang batu bara Jharia di India telah terbakar di bawah tanah sejak tahun 1916.
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Beberapa batuan akan terbakar, dan yang lainnya akan meleleh, tergantung pada bagaimana batuan itu terbentuk dan mineral apa yang dikandungnya.
El 6 de junio de 2023, el aire del estadio de los Yankees de Nueva York se cubrió de humo procedente de un incendio forestal en Canadá.
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Los incendios de Canadá han propagado el humo por varios estados de EE. UU., dejando ciudades como Nueva York, Detroit y Denver con una de las peores calidades del aire del mundo, incluso lejos de las llamas.
Wildfire smoke filled the air at Chicago’s Wrigley Field on June 27, 2023.
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Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities including New York, Chicago and Denver with some of the worst air quality in the world – even far from the flames.
The Jharia coal field in India has been on fire underground since 1916.
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Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.
A gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park.
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Less than a century ago, Colorado hunted, trapped and poisoned all the wolves within its borders. Today it’s restoring them – a change that reflects a profound shift in human thinking.
Research Fellow, Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak; Associate Professor and John Craighead Endowed Chair of Conservation, University of Montana