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Initial findings suggest the cache was used to preserve moose and caribou meat in the harsh climate of southeastern Alaska
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Eli Wizevich
Over a thousand years ago, the Eurasian lynx roamed the snowy terrain of the Scottish Highlands, its last refuge in the British Isles. But the covert, illegal and mysterious release of four lynx into the Scottish wilds this week has raised suspicions of conservationists and reignited a debate over whether the cat can reclaim its natural habitat—and at what cost.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Eli Wizevich
Species in Lake Victoria, Lake Titicaca, Sri Lanka’s Wet Zone and the Western Ghats of India are particularly vulnerable to the effects of agriculture, human infrastructure and climate change, per the paper Freshwater ecosystems across the world are in distress. As scientists better comprehend the extent to which lakes, ponds, rivers and marshlands—and the animal and plant life they support—are suffering from long-term human intervention, their findings are often dire.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
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The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Eli Wizevich
Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee described an “awful beast” in 1979. That beast—which he also called “the bane of my existence, the nemesis of my golden years, the bold perverter of the Endangered Species Act”—was none other than the snail darter, a fish no more than 3.5 inches in length. Still, the tiny creature had plagued the politics of Tennessee throughout the decade.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Eli Wizevich
In the summer of 1831, an enormous volcanic eruption spewed sulfur gas into Earth’s atmosphere. The particles scattered sunlight, making our star appear green, purple and blue. Its rays struggled to reach the planet’s surface, leading crops to fail and famines to spread. In the Northern Hemisphere, temperatures dropped by 1 degree Celsius. That year, German composer Felix Mendelssohn traveled through the Alps on the way home from a sojourn in Italy.
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Eli Wizevich
It was the winter of 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the International YMCA Training School, now known as Springfield College, football season had ended, baseball season had yet to begin, and indoor sports were limited to marching, calisthenics and some gymnastics. The young men in James Naismith’s class were restless until, at the request of school superintendent Luther H. Gulick, Naismith invented a new game for his students.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Eli Wizevich
The familiar rodents, known for eating nuts and seeds, have been spotted hunting and decapitating voles in a gruesome dietary adaptation. Scientists say it might signal resiliency in face of future environmental pressures
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Eli Wizevich
Just days before making the most consequential decision of his short reign, Edward VIII paced around Fort Belvedere, his stately royal country house in Surrey, England, a home the Daily Mirror wrote had “been changed from a bachelor’s warm, comfortable, modern home into a battlemented memorial to happier days and more joyous times.” As the king stewed, millions of his subjects across country and empire waited with bated breath for his solution to what the Mirror called “a problem more...
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
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