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Poem of the week: Musk-Ox by Jane Yeh
London :: Canada | 6 months ago
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Joe McDonald/Corbis This week's poem, "Musk-Ox", is from Jane Yeh's second collection , The Ninjas, recently published by Carcanet Press, and deservedly welcomed in a recent Guardian review by Aingeal Clare ...Combining fantasy, melancholy, precision
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Musk ox sighted in northern Alberta
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Staff at the Andrew Lake Lodge at the Northwest Territories-Alberta border were shocked to find the large animal near one of their cabins on June 10. The long-haired mammals are usually found in the northern tundra regions of Canada, Greenland and
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Arctic caribou herds may have stopped decline: Biologist
Yellowknife :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Two years ago scientists feared northern caribou were the new cod once-teeming stocks of wildlife that had sustained entire cultures but were at the edge of collapse. Now, as scientists from around the world gather in Yellowknife to compare notes,
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Ragsdale, Barrett win musk ox bull run
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Ragsdale covered the 6.2 miles of trail in 39 minutes, 43 seconds, and Barrett was timed in 47:58.
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Basics: Musk Oxen Live to Tell a Survivors’ Tale
Fairbanks :: AK :: USA | over 2 years ago
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According to Arctic biologists, the quintessential example of megafaunal fortitude in the face of really bad weather is the musk ox, or Ovibos moschatus, a blocky, short-legged, highly social ungulate with distinctively curved horns and long hair
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Children's books: The best of the current crop
Toronto :: Canada | over 2 years ago
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A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems, collected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters, illustrated by G. Brian Karas, Candlewick, 96 pages, $26, ages 0 to 5 The man in the moon, the moon in all its phases, stars, bats on the wing, owls in the wood,
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Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth
London :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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Francis Latreille/Corbis Working-class and Oxford-educated, shaped by postwar and anti-Movement influences, a stylish and often experimental formalist, he was undoubtedly a poet of his time, but also ahead of it. His birds and beasts may not be
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Did Climate Change Drive Human Evolution?
Nuuk :: Greenland | 3 years ago
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But Potts says habitats kept changing because climates kept changing. Centuries of drought, for example, would shift to centuries of monsoons, over and over. Which raises a question, Potts says: "Not how did humans become adapted to a specific
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