[ad_1] A landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Panama has ceded much of Central America’s largest natural reserve to indigenous land claims. The Naso tribe will share the responsibilities of managing 400,000 acres of land within La Amistad National Park and the Palo Seco Nature Reserve after the court granted them authority to create…

[ad_1] Cookie Monster, United States Navy; Rio Grande Do Sul, Paulo Hopper, CC license When geologists go on research trips, they typically look to look at specific rocks, minerals, and fossils. What this Californian scientist did not expect was to open a volcanic rock in Brazil, only to find an uncanny resemblance to the Cookie…

[ad_1] Tribal biologists have confirmed that Chinook salmon and rainbow trout are spawning in the upper Columbia River system in Washington state for the first time in 80 years. Dan Cook / USFWS The discovery of 36 “redds” (where a female salmon lays her eggs) along an excellent eight-mile spawning stretch of a tributary of…