James S. Miller

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A pro-Russian separatist holds a stuffed toy found at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 18, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev

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One year ago, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over the war zone in eastern Ukraine, and one year later we are closer than ever to proving who is ultimately responsible for this tragic act.

I have been compiling and analyzing information gathered over the last 12 months by field reporters and bloggers, statements from the Russian and Ukrainian governments, and the investigations launched by various government and non-government agencies, including the official inquiries of the Dutch Safety Board. The goal is to find and address similarities and discrepancies, and to use new information to verify or debunk parts of the narrative put forth by either the Ukrainian or Russian governments.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Botanists long thought the tallest trees on Madagascar all belonged to only three species of the genus Canarium, but two scientists have now determined that there are actually 35 species of the genus there, of which 29 are new to science.

To make this startling discovery, Douglas Daly of the New York Botanical Garden and his Malagasy colleague Jeannie Raharimampionona hiked through rainforests for months in 2006 and then toiled in scientific collections to sort out all of the species. Only then did they start the laborious process of formally describing each of the new species in Latin for publication in scientific papers, a requirement for making a new species public.…  Seguir leyendo »