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How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging
After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...
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The World's First Mountain Climbing Cog Railway Ascends New Hampshire's Highest Peak
To Native Americans, New England's highest mountain was called Agiocochook or "the place of the Great Spirit." Because of its ...
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To save monarch butterflies, these scientists want to move mountains
In 2021, the researchers trekked up the mountain to plant seedlings in biting cold temperatures—part of an effort to save the species from a climate-driven demise. “We’re doing something ...
The Day Gophers Revived Mount St. Helens: A 24-Hour Miracle
In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...
To Find Alien Intelligence, Start With the Mountains
But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...
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College Football Playoff bracket: Indiana forcing Selection Committee's hand at 10-0
However, I am incredibly reluctant to think IU can actually win a playoff game because the Hoosiers simply do not have the ...