Gabe Allen

1 week ago | news.mongabay.com | Gabe Allen

Indigenous residents of Churchill in Canada’s Manitoba province have coexisted with polar bears for thousands of years, emphasizing respect for the animals and staying out of their way. The province-run Polar Bear Alert Program also aims to keep the community safe from overly curious or dangerous bears, but some of its practices have been called into question by locals. Churchill’s tourism industry drives the local economy and is also the source of most problematic human-bear interactions.

1 week ago | coloradosun.com | Gabe Allen |Dana Coffield

Just a few blocks from Union Station in Denver, a new psilocybin mushroom healing center called The Center Origin occupies a sunny office suite on the third floor of a brick building above a dental surgery clinic. Elizabeth Cooke, the CEO and co-founder, has carefully decorated each room. There are plants, abstract paintings, cushy couches and “zero gravity” recliners. One room sports a small yoga studio and a shelf of literature on the psychedelic experience. Just one thing is missing: patients.

1 month ago | phys.org | Gabe Allen

In 2021, while revelers across America celebrated the fourth of July, three researchers waded through a shallow river delta in the New Mexican desert. Abby Eckland, Irina Overeem and Brandee Carlson stood in what remained of the Rio Grande—years of drought had shrunk the river to a few small channels. Just downstream, the channels entered the Elephant Butte Reservoir—New Mexico's largest.

Feb 20, 2025 | discovermagazine.com | Gabe Allen

Humans are obsessed with staying clean. We bathe or shower regularly (at least most of us do). We trim our hair and nails. Some people even pay for other people to groom them when it comes to pedicures or facials. While bathing and grooming is an innate part of being human, there is also evidence that animals, even the ones not so closely related to us, maintain hygiene in some way.

Feb 13, 2025 | phys.org | Gabe Allen

Regional pollution is speeding up snow melt in the Indian Himalayas. That's according to a new study from an international group of scientists including Indian Institute of Technology Madras civil engineering Ph.D. student Amit Singh Chandel and Karl Rittger, research associate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado Boulder.