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Five years ago, having much more hair and much less lower back pain, I walked into the Navy Recruiting Center in Irving, Texas, placed my left hand on a Bible

Protected areas (PAs) are the primary strategy for slowing terrestrial biodiversity loss. Although expansion of PA coverage is prioritized under the Convention on Biological Diversity, it remains unknown whether PAs mitigate declines across the tetrapod tree of life and to what extent land cover and climate change modify PA effectiveness1,2. Here we analysed rates of change in abundance of 2,239 terrestrial vertebrate populations across the globe. On average, vertebrate populations declined five times more slowly within PAs (−0.4% per year) than at similar sites lacking protection (ͨ...

The Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve in Peru has often been described as the most biodiverse rainforest in the world. For example, in recent decade....

The names for grandfathers in Lafayette and Acadiana vary. We compiled a list of the most unique and the most popular ways we address them in south Louisiana.