Tag: Asia
Mindfulness meditation can make some Americans more selfish and less generous
Michael J. Poulin, University at Buffalo
When Japanese chef Yoshihiro Murata travels, he brings water with him from Japan....
The 2021 World Food Prize recognizes that fish are key for...
Ben Belton, Michigan State University
Fish and other aquatic foods are integral to diets for more than 1 billion...
GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist in Asia
Neil Carter, University of Michigan
More than 100,000 tigers ranged across Asia a century ago, from the Indian subcontinent...
Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations...
Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts Boston and Candace Famiglietti, University of Massachusetts Boston
Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife....
Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here’s how North...
Roland Kays, North Carolina State University
It was a dark time for animals. Poaching was rampant. Wild birds and mammals were being slaughtered by the...
What are Asian giant hornets, and are they really dangerous? 5...
Akito Y Kawahara, University of Florida
Editor’s note: According to recent press reports, two Asian giant hornets – a species not known to occur in...
“>Endangered tigers face growing threats from an Asian road-building boom
Neil Carter, University of Michigan
Tigers are one of the world’s most iconic wild species, but today they are endangered throughout Asia. They once roamed...
Can sun umbrellas ever become fashionable again in America?
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
Many of us apply sunscreen when we go to the beach. But walking outside under the fierce summer sun...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
