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Holocene mammoth population extinction [Ecology]>

Edit PNAS 01 Aug 2016
Relict woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) populations survived on several small Beringian islands for thousands of years after mainland populations went extinct. Here we present multiproxy paleoenvironmental records to investigate the timing, causes, and consequences of mammoth disappearance from St. Paul Island, Alaska. Five independent indicators of extinction show that mammoths... ....

Snakes of Deseret

Edit CounterPunch 27 Jul 2016
The Remnant was left behind to clean up the mess and, luckily, she still had her now pink Nike running shoes ... To be kept in a canyon compound, like them ... George. She has so far survived. Sally seethed ... The 30-something woman opposite the fire had the look of the just plain tired, having experienced the intimacy of the wren and desert spotted in the canyons surrounding the White Cliffs and the relict No Man’s Mesa for three days before....

SwRI-led study shows puzzling paucity of large craters on dwarf planet Ceres (Southwest Research Institute)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Jul 2016
(Source. Southwest Research Institute). For immediate release. Image Courtesy of SwRI/Simone Marchi. The top of this false-color image includes a grazing view of Kerwan, Ceres' largest impact crater ... It grew in size through a history of accretionary collisions of smaller bodies ... 'These depressions - or planitiae - may be 'relict' impact basins, left over from large collisions that took place early in Ceres' history,' Marchi said ... Editors....

Site that some biblical scholars say is the Garden of Eden just became a world heritage site

Edit The Oklahoman 25 Jul 2016
An oasis in the middle of the Iraqi desert that some biblical scholars believe is the site of — or at least the inspiration for — the Garden of Eden as described in Genesis has officially been classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site ... UNESCO describes the location as a "refuge of biodiversity and the relict landscape of the Mesopotamian cities," calling it truly "unique." ... ....

Site that some biblical scholars say is the Garden of Eden just became a world ...

Edit Deseret News 21 Jul 2016
An oasis in the middle of the Iraqi desert that some biblical scholars believe is the site of — or at least the inspiration for — the Garden of Eden as described in Genesis has officially been classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site ... UNESCO describes the location as a "refuge of biodiversity and the relict landscape of the Mesopotamian cities," calling it truly "unique." ... Email. bhallowell@deseretnews.com Twitter....

The next World Heritage Committee Session will take place in Kraków (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jul 2016
(Source. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The state of conservation of 155 sites was examined during the session. Libya's five World Heritage sites were inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger, as was a site in Uzbekistan and another in Mali ... The cultural sites inscribed are ... Natural Sites ... Ennedi Massif ... Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities (Iraq)....

My Wildest Dream Ever

Edit Modern Ghana 18 Jul 2016
By Karl-Heinz Heerde. Dedicated to my Spiritual Father, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, Glorious Wave Church International, Sakumono (Tema), Ghana. Black Man.” Welcome to Ghana.”. White Man shacking the stretched hand ... The streets were clean, sanitation problems a funny story in the history books of bad times past, corruption cases museum’s pieces in the Ghana National Hall of Shame, relicts of Ghana’s darkest period....

>My Wildest Dream Ever

Edit Modern Ghana 18 Jul 2016
By Karl-Heinz Heerde. Dedicated to my Spiritual Father, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, Glorious Wave Church International, Sakumono (Tema), Ghana. Black Man.” Welcome to Ghana.”. White Man shacking the stretched hand ... The streets were clean, sanitation problems a funny story in the history books of bad times past, corruption cases museum’s pieces in the Ghana National Hall of Shame, relicts of Ghana’s darkest period....

UN cultural agency inscribes 12 new sites on World Heritage List

Edit The Oslo Times 18 Jul 2016
July 18, Geneva. From a national park to a fossil site and a naval dockyard, the United Nations cultural agency inscribed 12 new sites of special cultural or physical significance on its World Heritage List ... The session was suspended yesterday due to the attempt on Friday to overthrow the Government of Turkey ... Antigua and Barbuda ... Brazil ... Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities is made up of seven sites....

The next World Heritage Committee Session will take place in Cracaw (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jul 2016
(Source. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The state of conservation of 155 sites was examined during the session. Libya's five World Heritage sites were inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger, as was a site in Uzbekistan and another in Mali ... The cultural sites inscribed are ... Natural Sites ... Ennedi Massif ... Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities (Iraq)....

Polish city of Kraków to host 2017 World Heritage Committee session (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jul 2016
(Source. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The state of conservation of 155 sites was examined during the session. Libya's five World Heritage sites were inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger, as was a site in Uzbekistan and another in Mali ... The cultural sites inscribed are ... Natural Sites ... Ennedi Massif ... Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities (Iraq)....

World Heritage Committee opens in Istanbul (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Jul 2016
(Source. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Numan Kurtulmuş, the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, in his introductory remarks, said there is a fundamental role to be played by culture and heritage, a role made even more crucial in a period marked by wars and terrorist attacks ... We need to stand together.' ... Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities (Iraq) ... (noodl....

Newly discovered European snake faces extinction (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Jul 2016
(Source. Manchester Metropolitan University). Threats to viper from changing habitats and culling. Variation in individuals of Vipera walser sp. nov. Adult males (left) and adult females (right) ... The snake lives in an area of less than 500 sq ... Endangered ... walser ... Discovery ... NOTES FOR EDITORS ... the discovery of a range-restricted relict viper in the western Italian Alps published in the Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research....
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