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You’ve probably heard by now about the dreaded Asian longhorned beetle wreaking havoc – and forcing the cut down of some 25,000 trees in the...
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In dead Vineyard oaks, a warming warning
Ever since a vast tract of Martha’s Vineyard forest died two years ago, visitors who stumbled upon the graveyard of gray stalks have called it eerie, bizarre, and sad. Now scientists are calling it something else: a possible climate change lesson. (By Beth Daley, Boston Globe)
People are still evolving, heart study numbers say
Charles Darwin famously studied evolution in the Galapagos Islands. Now a team of scientists has chosen a decidedly less exotic locale to study the subject - Framingham. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe)