Uganda's gorilla population growing

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Wildlife officials say the number of mountain gorillas in Uganda has increased by six percent since 2002.


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Global warming wiped out the first rainforests

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Spectacular discoveries of fossil forests show that global warming wiped out the first rainforests to evolve on our planet.

As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in, study shows

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A University of Colorado at Boulder team working at 16,400 feet in the Peruvian Andes has discovered how barren soils uncovered by retreating glacier ice can swiftly establish a thriving community of microbes, ...

Study finds previously deported immigrants more likely to be rearrested after leaving jail

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Deportable immigrants who previously have been expelled from the United States are more likely to be rearrested on suspicion of committing a crime after they are released from jail than other deportable immigrants without ...

An advance on new generations of chemotherapy and antiviral drugs

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Researchers are describing progress toward developing a new generation of chemotherapy agents that target and block uncontrolled DNA replication — a hallmark of cancer, viral infections, and other diseases ...

Scavenger birds chew the fat

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Humans aren't the only ones who like fatty foods - bearded vultures do, too. A study by Antoni Margalida from the Bearded Vulture Study and Protection Group in El Pont de Suert, Spain, has found that the bearded vulture will ...
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