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Tara C. Smith
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Teen Vogue hits it out of the park again.

Alaskan towns at risk from rising seas sound alarm as Trump pulls federal help https://t.co/KS2SGE6aso

Alaskan towns at risk from rising seas sound alarm as Trump pulls federal help
Communities in danger of falling into the sea say assistance from Washington has dried up: ‘It feels like a complete abdication of responsibility on climate change’
theguardian.com
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Lives and Livelihoods: The Economic Impact of Ebola in West Africa | International Affairs Review https://t.co/cf8H87IhEY

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"Will Climate Change Cause Conflict in the Arctic? Searching for Answers in the Past." #science #feedly https://t.co/3eIj6GEmVn

Will Climate Change Cause Conflict in the Arctic? Searching for Answers in the Past.
In article after article , academics, policy analysts, and journalists have told a similar story: climate change, by melting Arctic ice, is unlocking resources that could soon trigger war in the far...
historicalclimatology.com

If Mary Beard is right, what's happened to the DNA of Africans from Roman Britain? https://t.co/5NhItwuZZb

If Mary Beard is right, what's happened to the DNA of Africans from Roman Britain?
There are many reasons why a genetic legacy of Africans in Roman Britain might not be present in contemporary populations
theguardian.com

The York Gospels: a one thousand year biological palimpsest https://t.co/LmibU4XtFA #preprint #aDNA #zooarchaeology

The York Gospels: a one thousand year biological palimpsest
Medieval manuscripts, carefully curated and conserved, represent not only an irreplaceable documentary record but also a remarkable reservoir of biological information. Palaeographic and codicological investigation can often locate and date these documents with remarkable precision. The York Gospels...
biorxiv.org
Becki Coleman shared AJ+'s video to the group: BioAnthropology News.
August 7 at 8:37am

A good video on the Demographic Transition.

How a smallpox epidemic forged modern British Columbia https://t.co/4hZOeBBRie via @macleans

How a smallpox epidemic forged modern British Columbia - Macleans.ca
In 1862, smallpox killed thousands of Indigenous people in B.C.—and what ensued sparked issues that the province still grapples with today
macleans.ca|By Maclean's

Vaccines are part of the solution to the emerging crisis of antibiotic resistance https://t.co/HZm35zCvzI via @statnews

Vaccines are part of the solution to the crisis of antibiotic resistance
Wiser use of antibiotics is one solution to the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance. Wider use of vaccines is another.
statnews.com

Blame game over inclusion of smallpox, polio deaths in Delhi govt report via @htTweets https://t.co/NYijp0tRQC

Blame game over inclusion of smallpox, polio deaths in Delhi govt report
The directorate also explained how the two people whose death had been attributed to smallpox were from “out of Delhi”, with their addresses registered as Bulandshahr,...
hindustantimes.com
Susan Guise Sheridan shared a link to the group: BioAnthropology News.
August 4 at 5:56am
Evidence that ancient farms had very different origins than previously thought
Dramatic new hypothesis could change the way we understand human history.
arstechnica.com

Grisly killing stemmed from a dispute involving Chicago professor and hairdresser, police say https://t.co/JrsJIjNBRZ #PlagueResearcher

Grisly killing stemmed from a dispute involving Chicago professor and hairdresser, police say
The slaying of a Chicago hairstylist has captured international attention, with one suspect a prominent researcher at Northwestern University and the other employed by Oxford.
washingtonpost.com|By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

Meet the mummified Polar beauty, her long eyelashes and hair still intact after 900 years https://t.co/CntqvsP4kh

Meet the mummified Polar beauty, her long eyelashes and hair still intact after 900 years
Unearthed on the edge of the Arctic, she is the only woman so far found in an otherwise all-male necropolis, buried in a cocoon of copper and fur.
siberiantimes.com

Risk to Europe's most dangerous pathogens revealed https://t.co/o5yog24Aie via @physorg_com #ClimateChange #insects #ticks #anthrax

Risk to Europe's most dangerous pathogens revealed
The impact of climate change on the emergence and spread of infectious diseases could be greater than previously thought, according to new research by the University of Liverpool.
phys.org

The Alps are giving up more ghosts ... Melting glaciers in Swiss Alps could reveal hundreds of mummified corpses https://t.co/Wsvu2pVcqF

Melting glaciers in Swiss Alps could reveal hundreds of mummified corpses
Frozen bodies of couple who vanished 75 years ago among those uncovered recently as global warming forces ice to retreat
theguardian.com

Health security is as important to America’s future as border security https://t.co/YwJwQ0MUa5 via @qz

Health security is as important to America’s future as border security
There are a number of serious US health-related issues and threats—from the opioid crisis to health care reform—that will require resources and funding.
qz.com

A strange type of anthrax is killing chimpanzees, @edyong209 reports. https://t.co/Nb7z9jDi3n

A Strange Type of Anthrax Is Killing Chimpanzees
No one knows where it came from, how it spreads, or why it infects so many mammal species.
theatlantic.com