Ecuadorian officials found at least 48 smuggled Galapagos marine iguanas between May and late August, researchers say. Authors of a Science letter say the trade is peaking just as a super El Niño wipes out the intertidal algae the animals eat.
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SFU model prices climate-driven Canadian wildfires at $2.1 trillion under 3 to 4 degrees of warming
Simon Fraser University researchers put the climate-driven cost of Canadian wildfires at more than $2.1 trillion this century under 3 to 4 degrees of warming. Holding warming to 2 degrees would keep costs near those of recent decades, lead author Sian Kou-Giesbrecht said.
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Simon Fraser glaciologists put Whistler Glacier's last ice less than a decade away
Simon Fraser University researchers expect Whistler Glacier to lose its last ice within 10 years, after mapping a 95% drop in its area since 1973. The projection puts a near-term date on a retreat the Whistler Blackcomb resort is already planning around.
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FTC warns that fake Evite and Paperless Post invitations are phishing for email passwords
FTC warned in May that fake Evite and Paperless Post invitations ask people for their email password, or a phone number and code to RSVP. One reached journalist Eric Umansky's contacts in his own name. Team guidance works best when it targets the request for credentials.
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AI text detectors are good enough to deploy. The appeals process is what nobody has written.
Cancer-journal editors are already catching undisclosed LLM use in peer review with commercial software. The unresolved question is what happens to a flagged researcher who says no.
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Riverbed ice is not glue: lab flume finds Arctic beds erode 10 times faster while thawing
Simon Fraser and UBC researchers reran the experiment until they believed it. The mechanism they landed on inverts the sign on the stabilizing term in Arctic erosion budgets.
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