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Gwen Ifill sat down with Lonnie Bunch, the director of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, which is due to open this weekend.
The post PBS Newshour interview with Lonnie Bunch, African American Museum director appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.
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Have you looked closely at a stream, lake or woodland and observed changes in it over time? That's exactly what scientists are trying to do on a larger, regional-to-continental scale -- a macrosystems biology scale. Macrosystems biology might be called biological sciences writ large. To better detect, understand and predict the effects of climate and land-use changes on organisms and ecosystems at these large scales, the National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological Sciences has awarded $15.9 million for 12 new MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) Science projects. Pollinators, like the one pictured here, are the subject of this new MacroSystems Biology/Early NEON Science grant.
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The same hotspot in Earth's mantle that feeds Iceland's active volcanoes has been playing a trick on the scientists who are trying to measure how much ice is melting on nearby Greenland. According to a new study by National Science Foundation-funded researchers at The Ohio State University, the hotspot softened the mantle rock beneath Greenland in a way that ultimately distorted their calculations for ice loss in the Greenland ice sheet. This caused them to underestimate the melting by about 20 gigatons (20 billion metric tons) per year. That means Greenland did not lose about 2,500 gigatons of ice from 2003-2013 as scientists previously thought, but nearly 2,700 gigatons instead -- a 7.6 percent difference.
Image credit: Anders A Bjork, courtesy of The Ohio State University
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A Canadian idiot has been sentenced to a year behind bars after he was found guilty of calling in a bomb threat because he was running late for his flight.…
There are many challenges rangers face, says Fyson Suwedi, in this video. A Senior Assistant Parks and Wildlife Officer in Malawi's Lengwe National Park, he should know. “Poachers look at rangers as obstacles. They can do anything to make sure they get what they want. They can kill the rangers,” he says.
Suwedi points to a scar on his arm as proof of what can happen. “That's where one poacher thew an axe and it hurt me,” he explains.
Poachers also kill the animals the rangers are trying to protect. “This happens especially when the poacher injures the animal,” he says. Animals do not differentiate between the ranger and the poacher, [and for the rangers, that is] another source of danger. “I lost a very good friend of mine,” Suwedi tells. “He was killed by a buffalo that was injured. The love for the work..it's like a gift. You cannot work without any challenges. We still work, even when we lose our friends,” Suwedi says.
Fighting Wildlife Crime on the Front Lines
This video interview with Fyson Suwedi is part of a series of interviews with the unsung heroes fighting wildlife crime on the front lines. Journalist and National Geographic Fellow Bryan Christy uses investigative journalism to expose illegal wildlife trafficking around the globe. He introduces the interview series in the video below:
Law enforcement officials from Africa recently participated in a global seminar and training summit in Washington, D.C., focusing on sharing intelligence, ideas and other collaboration. Read more about this below. Follow the link for a more comprehensive briefing.
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Law enforcement agencies, NGOs, and business leaders gathered from across the world in Washington recently to share information and expertise and organize a concerted strategy to combat the global scourge of wildlife trafficking.
The unprecedented collaboration was heralded at the National Geographic Society's headquarters on Tuesday, at an event held against the backdrop of recent news of a catastrophic plunge in the last wild populations of African elephants and other species. The meeting also set the stage for CITES CoP17, a conference in Johannesburg at the end of this month that will bring more than a hundred governments together to review the planet's biggest wildlife challenges and opportunities.
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