UCSB — The Current — ‘Lessons in sustainability, evolution and human adaptation — courtesy of the Holocene’ and more news, events
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Remarkably well preserved after 11,000 years, the botanical materials at El Gigante reflect the transition from foraging to farming, providing a rare glimpse of early foraging strategies and changes in subsistence.
Researchers pored over 108 groundwater management plans in California, finding those that incorporated stakeholder input offered greater protection from groundwater depletion.
“The microbes really do run these ecosystems, because they’re involved in so many different kinds of processes,” Deron Burkepile, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who did not contribute to the research, tells New Scientist’s James Dinneen.
