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EcoUniv Weekend Reads: June 2021
EcoUniv Weekend Reads #69
6 June 2021
Man & Nature: The Soliga community struggles to save its old ways of living while adapting to modernity.
Research – Species: How an Elephant’s Trunk Manipulates Air to Eat and Drink.
Article: https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2021/06/how-elephants-trunk-manipulates-air-eat-and-drink/
Research: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2021.0215
Research – Species: The mockingbird’s song(s) have been decoded.
Article: https://phys.org/news/2021-06-mockingbird-song-decoded.html
Research: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.630115/
EcoUniv Weekend Reads #70
13 June 2021
Economics: A ProPublica investigation about how the super-wealthy in US pay very low taxes relative to increases in their net worth – legally! Naturally, this increases economic inequality in US and globally. Why? Because the American way tends to influence rule-making elsewhere.
NYT comment: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/opinion/income-tax-billionaires.html
Species: A single honeybee has cloned itself hundreds of millions of times
Man & Nature: A study on the Amazon Rainforest has found that indigenous people lived there for millennia while “causing no detectable species losses or disturbances”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57388939
EcoUniv Weekend Reads #71
20 June 2021
Exploration: The story of finding the “southernmost” tree on our planet
Conservation: Herds of exotic animals are maintained at some ranches in US, to facilitate hunting. Their conservation value is debatable.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/inside-texas-exotic-animal-ranching-industry
Migration: Some people in Delhi are already moving to other cities due to the air pollution.
https://correspondentsoftheworld.com/story/we-can-t-breathe-story-of-a-pollution-migrant
EcoUniv Weekend Reads #72
27 June 2021
Evolution: The story of Homo Sapiens, retold based on the latest advances and findings.
https://www.sciencenews.org/century/human-evolution-origins-fossils-paleoanthropology
Animals: Honeybees found using tools to repel giant hornet attacks
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/honeybees-use-tools-dung-repels-giant-hornets
Domestication: Ice age Siberian hunters may have domesticated dogs 23,000 years ago