Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

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The cacao trees mature at five years and begin to flower on the trunk. The flowers are pollinated by midges, a small fly.

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When we open the call for applications, we encourage experienced investigative journalists in each of the tropical rainforest regions as well as journalists based at major global media outlets to ...

Professor David Galbraith, a researcher at the University of Leeds in the U.K. who studied the impacts of drought on trees, explained in a press release: "The Amazon is threatened by multiple ...

He shared that they have 27 trees in total, and some are wild relatives ... "The ones from Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaiʻi, they're all like a denser fruit — bit heavy. So it's more like potato. These are kind ...

Deforestation can also directly influence the weather. For example, removing trees in tropical regions can reduce rainfall because it changes the way water vapor forms over the forest canopy.

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