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What’s on the Thanksgiving table in a hotter, drier world?

What’s on the Thanksgiving table in a hotter, drier world?

Wild boar. Kelp salad. Crickets in your pie crust. These are just a few things that may end up on Thanksgiving menus as climate change takes its toll on the planet.
feral pigs biodiversity
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World’s feral pigs produce as much CO2 as 1.1m cars each year, study finds

Modelling by an international team of researchers estimates that feral pigs release 4.9m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year globally by uprooting soil.

Hawaii’s invasive predator catastrophe
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Hawaii’s invasive predator catastrophe

Endangered seabirds can recover, but only if we control feral cats and other non-native predators, new research finds. (Especially cats.)
The macabre science of mass animal die-offs
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The macabre science of mass animal die-offs

Researchers are replicating “mass mortality events” with pig carcasses. The ecological consequences could hint at what's happening in Australia right now.
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