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WASHINGTON, Dec 27 (Reuters) – E.O. Wilson, an American naturalist dubbed the modern day Darwin whose interest in ants led him to conclusions about human nature being directed by genetics rather than culture, died on Sunday at the age of 92, his foundation said.Alongside British naturalist David Attenborough, Wilson was considered one of the world’s leading authorities on natural history and conservation.”E.O. Wilson was called ‘Darwin’s natural heir,’ and was known affectionately as ‘the ant […]

The Congo River is the world’s second-largest river system after the Amazon. More than 75 million people depend on it for food and water, as do thousands of species of plants and animals that live in the swamps and peatlands it supports. The massive tropical rainforest sprawled across its middle helps regulate the entire Earth’s climate system. The amount of water in the system, however, is something of a mystery.  Hydrologists and climate scientists rely on monitoring stations to […]