For one group of young sea turtles, a protected wetland in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) proved a perfect oasis. A team tracking nine juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) found they were spending over 80 percent of their time in the Al Qurm Wa Lehhfaiiah Protected Area, a human-made lagoon on the UAE’s Gulf of
A relative outsider has been elected the new leader of the Canadian province of British Columbia after the provincial Conservatives swept to power in a snap election. Lorne Doerkson, who took the helm of the party just weeks ago, will be British Columbia’s new premier after the Conservatives won a majority of seats in the
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Kieran spoke to a lot of Native Americans on his visits and most knew of a European ancestry which could explain their red hair. “The thing that surprised me was how early on there were these Scots and Irish marrying Native Americans,” he said. Lottie Wahkinney, a Comanche girl from Oklahoma, has Scottish grandparents, from
