| 单词 | Eurasian |
| 例句 | Ah, it was more than a Eurasian army that had perished! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z At nineteen he had designed a hand grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z That outcome, with all of its momentous advantages for Eurasian societies, stemmed from three basic facts of mammalian geography, history, and biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many Eurasian societies developed large sailing ships, some of them capable of sailing against the wind and crossing the ocean, equipped with sextants, magnetic compasses, sternpost rudders, and cannons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, crops and animals moved easily between Eurasian societies thousands of miles apart but at the same latitude and sharing similar climates and day lengths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Peoples of Eurasian origin, especially those still living in Europe and eastern Asia, plus those transplanted to North America, dominate the modern world in wealth and power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Virtually all other Eurasian societies engaged in agriculture as well as in herding animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To bring up all those differences isn’t to claim that widely distributed crops are admirable, or that they testify to the superior ingenuity of early Eurasian farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Scientists also agree that about 70,000 years ago, Sapiens from East Africa spread into the Arabian peninsula, and from there they quickly overran the entire Eurasian landmass. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, Eurasian crops that were first domesticated far from the Fertile Crescent but at the same latitudes were able to diffuse back to the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As he ran, he gathered from some shouted remarks that a convoy of Eurasian prisoners was passing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z However, I realized that many readers would also wonder “Why, among Eurasians, was it Europeans rather than Chinese or some other group that expanded?” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Granted that New Guineans had “progressed” beyond Native Australians, why had they not yet “progressed” as far as many Eurasians, Africans, and Native Americans? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Cumulative mortalities of these previously unexposed peoples from Eurasian germs ranged from 50 percent to 100 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Did all those peoples of Africa, the Americas, and Australia, despite their enormous diversity, nonetheless share some cultural obstacles to domestication not shared with Eurasian peoples? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most Eurasian states had literate bureaucracies, and in some a significant fraction of the populace other than bureaucrats was also literate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many Eurasian states and empires had official religions that contributed to state cohesion, being invoked to legitimize the political leadership and to sanction wars against other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Linguists agree in grouping all but a few Eurasian languages into about a dozen language families, each consisting of up to several hundred related languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Equatorial Africa’s tsetse flies, carrying trypanosomes to which native African wild mammals are resistant, proved devastating to introduced Eurasian and North African species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is no evidence for large-scale cultivation of apples even in the Fertile Crescent and in Europe until classical Greek times, 8,000 years after the rise of Eurasian food production began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Such differences in food production constituted a major ultimate cause of the disparities between Eurasian and Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, some of the supermarket apple varieties now being munched by readers of this chapter have been developed recently by crossing Eurasian apples with wild North American apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Eurasian domestic animals made Eurasian agriculture itself more competitive by providing fertilizer, and eventually by drawing plows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The most glaring difference between American and Eurasian food production involved big domestic mammal species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Spanish landfalls in the Americas were at subtropical latitudes highly suitable for food production, based at first mostly on Native American crops but also on Eurasian domestic animals, especially cattle and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Wheels were also adopted in Eurasian pottery making and in clocks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a result, domestic animals did not reach sub-Saharan Africa until thousands of years after they began to be utilized by emerging Eurasian civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Still farther east, temperate areas of China were isolated from western Eurasian areas with similar climates by the combination of the Central Asian desert, Tibetan plateau, and Himalayas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That is, cattle were domesticated independently in India and western Eurasia, within the last 10,000 years, starting with wild Indian and western Eurasian cattle subspecies that had diverged hundreds of thousands of years earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This table gives approximate dates of widespread adoption of significant developments in three Eurasian and four Native American areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The same pattern repeated itself elsewhere in the world, whenever peoples lacking native wild mammal species suitable for domestication finally had the opportunity to acquire Eurasian domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had no subjects of conversation except the principles of Ingsoc, and no aim in life except the defeat of the Eurasian enemy and the hunting-down of spies, saboteurs, thought-criminals, and traitors generally. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In that case, however, conquistadores contributed nothing directly to the societies’ destruction; Eurasian germs, spreading in advance, did everything. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Third, what about Eurasians’ head start in developing locally appropriate technology? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Americas had two empires, those of the Aztecs and Incas, which resembled their Eurasian counterparts in size, population, polyglot makeup, official religions, and origins in the conquest of smaller states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had flown from a secret airfield in Canada to a rendezvous somewhere in Siberia, and had conferred with members of the Eurasian General Staff, to whom they had betrayed important military secrets. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four meters high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z After the end of his expedition, it was a long time before Europeans again reached the Mississippi Valley, but Eurasian microbes were now established in North America and kept spreading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition to their germs and technology, Eurasian and Native American societies differed in their political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Third, Eurasian societies enjoyed a huge advantage in their sources of power to operate machines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Far more Native Americans died in bed from Eurasian germs than on the battlefield from European guns and swords. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even today, with Eurasian crops and with trucks and railroads to transport produce, food production in Australia remains a risky business. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z That basic feature of geography thereby contributed heavily to the very different experiences of Native Americans, Africans, and Eurasians in the last 500 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That contrast between the immediate virtues of wheat and barley and the difficulties posed by teosinte may have been a significant factor in the differing developments of New World and Eurasian human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was pulled away from her face, which was this incredible golden brown—mulatto, Eurasian, Hispanic, some exotic foreign blend. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The second Eurasian attempt to colonize the Americas succeeded because it involved a source, target, latitude, and time that allowed Europe’s potential advantages to be exerted effectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But why were Eurasians, rather than Native Americans or sub-Saharan Africans, the ones to invent firearms, oceangoing ships, and steel equipment? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If this is the case, then today’s Eurasians are not pure Sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Five areas of technology may be singled out: First, metals—initially copper, then bronze, and finally iron—were used for tools in all complex Eurasian societies as of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on that date they had been on Eurasian soil. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As for livestock, Eurasian sheep made it possible to extend food production to arid areas of Australia unsuitable for agriculture, and Eurasian cattle joined crops in moister areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some other Eurasian societies, notably the Central Asian pastoralists and the reindeer-herding Lapps and Samoyeds of the Arctic, had domestic animals but little or no agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After at least 13,000 years of separate developments, advanced American and Eurasian societies finally collided within the last thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our starting point will be a comparison of Eurasian and Native American societies as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As it happened, the Eurasian Higher Command had launched its offensive in South India and left North Africa alone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The table suggests that food production began to provide a large fraction of human diets around 5,000 years earlier in the Eurasian homelands than in those of the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since Asian mainland infectious diseases were well established in Indonesia, New Guineans thereby gained long exposure and built up much more resistance to Eurasian germs than did Aboriginal Australians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All those facts explain why so many laypeople assume that Eurasians are superior to other peoples in inventiveness and intelligence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite its independent origins and distinctive sign forms, Maya writing is organized on principles basically similar to those of Sumerian writing and other western Eurasian writing systems that Sumerian inspired. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Similar questions arise for the decimation of many other native peoples by Eurasian germs, as well as for the decimation of would-be European conquistadores in the tropics of Africa and Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At first, Japan might seem to be geographically very similar to Britain, both being large archipelagoes flanking the Eurasian continent on the east and the west respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Several possible consequences of that Eurasian head start deserve consideration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Toynbee was especially interested in the internal dynamics of 23 advanced civilizations, of which 22 were literate and 19 were Eurasian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like the Eurasian centers of civilization, Mesoamerica and the Andes were places where complex, long-lasting cultural traditions began. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He seemed actually to see the Eurasian army swarming across the never-broken frontier and pouring down into the tip of Africa like a column of ants. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But it turns out that the actual reasons behind the more rapid development of Eurasian societies were not at all the straightforward ones that our imaginary archaeologist of 11,000 B.C. guessed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Far more Native Americans and other non-Eurasian peoples were killed by Eurasian germs than by Eurasian guns or steel weapons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Passersby would have been amazed to hear the large Eurasian man refer to the boy as sir. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z All these were the end products of 10,000 years of development in Eurasian environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We’ve seen that Eurasian crowd diseases evolved out of diseases of Eurasian herd animals that became domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In capacity, speed, maneuverability, and seaworthiness, those Eurasian ships were far superior to the rafts that carried out trade between the New World’s most advanced societies, those of the Andes and Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Particularly surprising is the large number of species of African and American mammals that were never domesticated, despite their having Eurasian close relatives or counterparts that were domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why wasn’t there at least one African hunter-gatherer tribe that domesticated those zebras and buffalo and that thereby gained sway over other Africans, without having to await the arrival of Eurasian horses and cattle? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He graduated from University College, University of Toronto, and received a master’s degree in public policy and a master’s degree in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies from the University of Michigan. Amy Todd, Benjamin Sweeney 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Discover one of the littlest rodents in Brooklyn: the Eurasian harvest mouse. Grown-Up Art at a Children’s Museum. But It’s Still Playtime. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In Hungary, she welcomes the arrival of migrating Eurasian cranes, “thousands of beating hearts and eyes and fragile frames of feather and bone.” Review | Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ — like ‘H Is for Hawk’ — is a beautiful, poignant celebration of the natural world 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The great horned owl’s Old World counterpart, the Eurasian eagle owl, sits atop the food chain. Owls are natural-born killers. So why do we adore them so much? 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z “Now there are lots of Asians and Eurasians where I live,” he says, “but back then in Hillarys,” the suburb of Perth in which he grew up, “we were practically the only ones.” Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z What is fascinating is the tenacity with which the English nabobs maintained their blood ties with their Eurasian offspring. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z "That 'owl thing' is a Eurasian eagle owl." Bill Bailey: Bill's excellent adventure 2013-04-19T14:00:00Z Part of the proceeds of the sale will go to the Eurasian Pacific Wildlife Conservation Foundation, which DuPont supported. World's rarest stamp could fetch record auction price of $20 mln 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The selections at the Morgan include the first Dutch drawing he purchased, Rochus van Veen’s clinically rendered “Study of a Dead Eurasian Otter.” Art Review: ?Rembrandt?s World,? at the Morgan Library & Museum - Review 2012-01-19T22:43:55Z Name an imperialistically inclined Eurasian people, and they’ve probably have taken over at some point: Persians, Arabs, Mongols, Byzantines, Ottoman Turks, Russian Bolsheviks. A Crash Course in Armenian History 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The CD's title refers to Iceland's underwater Silfra Rift in Þingvellir Lake, where North American and Eurasian tectonic plates part company at the rate of two centimeters or so per year. Hilary Hahn and Hauschka share Icelandic adventure on new disc, at the Neptune 2012-05-25T22:13:12Z The park is technically getting ever bigger — at the approximate rate of one inch per year — as the Eurasian and North American plates move apart. Four destinations that feel like geologic theme parks 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Macdonald’s essays are often odes to the wonders of animal behavior — the ability of moths to migrate vast distances, possibly by sensing the earth’s electromagnetic fields, the synchronicity in flight of Eurasian cranes. Helen Macdonald Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of the Natural World 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The problem was that Mr. Pryce was white; his character was Eurasian. Review: Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Where is a Eurasian former Communist spy to go? His Debut Novel Won the Pulitzer. Now It Has an Action-Packed Sequel. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The holdings include ancient gold objects found in the Eurasian steppes, from personal ornaments to accessories for belts, chariots and horse harnesses. In Transit Blog: In Hong Kong, a Glittering Exhibition 2014-01-07T01:00:22Z Flight demonstrations will include a red-shouldered hawk, sun conures, a turkey vulture, a Eurasian eagle owl and scarlet- and green-winged macaws. Spare Times for Children for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z “This is the best place to bring up a Eurasian child,” Lennon said in a 1976 article reporting on the hearing that decided the matter. When John Lennon Was Starting Over 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z They called themselves Indos, she said, or Eurasians who were of mixed Indonesian and European descent. A Dutch Artist Travels Through Time and Its Colonial Past 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z This premiere revolves around the horse-riding Amazon warriors who roamed the Eurasian grasslands and protected their vast territory from the powers of Greece, China and Persia. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Arthur Miller: Writer’ and ‘Life Itself’ 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z And the Eurasian music section is a nice touch. Readers recommend: songs with special guests 2010-10-14T23:01:00Z The ancient north Eurasians contributed up to 20 percent of the genetics of Europeans, although this was the smallest proportion among the three ancestral groups. Genetic history of modern Europeans a tangled tale, research finds 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z After my arrival, she patiently fed minced up chunks of a dead chick to Sammy, her fluffy Eurasian eagle owlet, using chopsticks. Frieda Hughes: ‘I felt my parents were stolen’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The exhibit shows, for example, how European and Eurasian women in the Dutch East Indies started adding lace to their long kebayas, the blouse portion of the costume, from the late 18th century. Special Report: Fashion: From Robe to Blouse and Sarong 2011-03-10T08:01:28Z As we discuss the rift between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates that slices through the region, we attract the attention of a Danish couple who drifts toward us. Driving Iceland’s Overlooked North 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z At root it is an explanation of why Eurasians run the world: not because of any innate racial superiority but because of blunt geographical and biological facts. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The Eurasian eagle owl is an apex predator, so you can release them anywhere in the world and they would be fine. Bill Bailey: Bill's excellent adventure 2013-04-19T14:00:00Z In recent years Mr. Putin has tried to position himself as the champion of a Eurasian power, setting Russia as a counterpoint to Europe. Review: Walter Laqueur’s ‘Putinism’ Dissects a Canny Russian Leader 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z She both graduated and received a master’s degree in Russian, East European and Eurasian studies from Stanford. Saya Kitasei, Jered Sorkin 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z For Eurasian peoples, who could digest animal-derived lactose more easily than those in Africa or the far east, cows, goats and sheep have long been convenient providers of cheap fats, vitamin D and calcium. Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze ? review 2011-07-29T23:08:16Z On Friday, several European bookmakers favored Azerbaijan, represented by 17-year-old chanteuse Safura singing the guitar ballad "Drip Drop," though it's unclear if the small Eurasian country could host such an expensive contest. Undertones of debt crisis at European song contest 2010-05-28T16:21:00Z The Westfjords and Reykjavik rest on the North American plate, for example, while the Vatnajokull glacier and the East Fjords are on the Eurasian plate. Four destinations that feel like geologic theme parks 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z She deftly refracted events of the time through the personal stories of English and Eurasian expats and their devastating relationships with Japanese occupiers and, later, Chinese Hong Kong natives. In her novel 'The Expatriates', Janice Y.K. Lee explores contemporary lives in Hong Kong 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Later that morning, while taking a dip in the communal swimming pool, she meets Mali, a “Thai or Eurasian” woman about her age, “30 more or less.” On the Lam in Bangkok, With a Suitcase Full of Cash 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z At book's end Walker's old nemesis, a smooth Eurasian criminal named Charlotte Sing, drops in — a shameless lead-up to the next book's plot and clear proof that, lucky us, Walker will return. New in crime fiction: Cleverly, Estleman, Koryta, Penny 2012-08-08T19:47:07Z He also received a master’s degree in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian studies from Stanford, and, in May, received a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. An Interest in Ukraine Led to Romance 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “It is Eurasian. It’s just how we cook.” JoieFarm crafts wines that pair with Eurasian cuisine 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Brian Bradley, from the organization Skyhunters in Flight, will discuss the art of falconry and present a Eurasian eagle-owl, a gyrfalcon and other species in an activity at which they excel: winging over Wave Hill. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The new study revealed the role of hunter-gatherers from the Siberian region who the scientists called "ancient north Eurasians." Genetic history of modern Europeans a tangled tale, research finds 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z One of Iceland’s most popular tourist destinations, the park lies in a rift valley that marks the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Four destinations that feel like geologic theme parks 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Here you can see where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet — creating what is known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge or Rift. Four destinations that feel like geologic theme parks 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But this time the metal man is Eurasian and most of the film’s dialogue is in English. Film: The Tribeca Film Festival?s Cinemania Series Has Dark Treasures 2010-04-22T22:56:00Z The Eurasian and North American plates are pulling apart from each other, a few centimetres each year. Iceland volcano: Peninsula faces 'decades' of instability 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z It was a byproduct of the centuries-long fur trade, which decimated North American and Eurasian beaver populations, nearly rendering both species extinct by the 16th century in Europe and the 19th century in North America. Does your vanilla ice cream have beaver goo in it? 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Located between the Eurasian and the North American tectonic plates, among the largest on the planet, Iceland is a seismic and volcanic hot spot as the two plates move in opposite directions. Risk of volcanic eruption in Iceland remains high 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z The Earth's crust is fractured into different plates, and at the ridge the Eurasian and North American plates are moving apart at a few centimetres a year. Iceland volcano: what will the impact be? 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z It has only a third of the vessels it would need to completely sanctions-proof its oil shipments, said Craig Kennedy, an associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. A price cap on Russian oil aims to starve Putin of cash. But it’s largely been untested. Until now 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z This is my boundary,’” says Campbell-Palmer, head of restoration at Beaver Trust, a U.K.-based organization dedicated to increasing Eurasian beaver populations. Does your vanilla ice cream have beaver goo in it? 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, as it lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. Afghanistan hit by third earthquake in a week 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z The family of five Eurasian beavers were released at Paradise Fields, an area of wetlands in Ealing. Ealing: Beaver family released in west London wetland 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Feral domestic pigs bred with purebred Eurasian boar that were introduced for hunting, and hybridized wild pigs spread across the landscape due to prolific reproductive rates and a willingness to eat just about anything. Wild pig populations in U.S. can be managed 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes - especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range as it lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. Afghanistan earthquake: Race to rescue victims in Herat Province 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Named after their resemblance to the Eurasian magpie, to which they are not actually closely related, Australian magpies are a protected native species, and to some, a beloved national icon. Magpie swooping: How polarising bird terrorises suburban Australia 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The ban will not apply to other countries in the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union trading bloc - Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Russia announces ban on gasoline, diesel fuel exports 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Genetic data indicate that 400,000 and 300,000 years ago grapes grew naturally across the western and central Eurasian continent. Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Meeting with Li Hui, China's Special Envoy for Eurasian Affairs, the Italian cardinal also addressed the issue of food security and blocked grain exports from Ukraine. Pope envoy had 'cordial' talks in China on Ukraine, Vatican says 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Eurasian Group analysts warned that should Brussels ultimately levy duties against subsidised Chinese EVs, Beijing would likely impose countermeasures to hurt European industries. Beijing blasts 'protectionist' EU probe, German industry wary 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Eurasian Group analysts warned that should Brussels ultimately levy duties against subsidized Chinese EVs, Beijing would likely impose countermeasures to hurt European industries. Beijing blasts EU probe as protectionist as China EV maker stocks slide 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z North Africa sits on the Nubian plate, also called the African plate, which is slowly moving with respect to the Eurasian plate. What made the earthquake in Morocco so devastating 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z The collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates occurred at a relatively shallow depth, which makes a quake more dangerous. In ancient cities and mountain towns, rescuers seek survivors from Morocco’s quake of the century 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z They argued the rules were needed to ensure better representation of minorities in Singapore, which include Malays, Indians, and Eurasians. Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Singapore picks a president who could've been much more 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z In flight, the Eurasian kestrel is mostly silent, a small falcon that seems to defy physics as it faces the wind and hovers in midair, tail spread out like a fan. A 12,000-Year-Old Bird Call, Made of Bird Bones 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z About three-quarters of Singapore's 3.5 million citizens are ethnic Chinese, with the rest of the population ethnic Malays, ethnic Indian or Eurasian. Singapore names 3 candidates for presidential election 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z China, which has firm ties with Russia, said on Friday it will send Special Envoy for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui for the talks. Ukraine expects difficult but successful talks in Saudi Arabia 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z It sits atop the continually spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the North American plate to the west and the Eurasian plate to the east are gradually pulling apart. Iceland has entered a new volcanic era 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Yet, it has joined none of the land, air and naval drills conducted in recent years by China and Russia on the Eurasian landmass, and in the Sea of Japan and the South China Sea. As China, Russia drill, North Korea left on the sidelines 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Ancient Eurasian nomads that originally settled in the Kushan Empire — called the "Tocharians" by Greco Roman authors — may also have spoken the language, which the researchers have proposed to call "Eteo-Tocharian." Ancient ‘Unknown’ Script Is Finally Deciphered 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Eurasian magpies, on the other hand, build nests with a roof. 'The perfect revenge'? Birds are building fortresses from anti-bird spikes 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Yet the ties linking democracies currently look firmer than those binding authoritarian Eurasian powers. China and Russia feel blowback as NATO embraces Asian allies 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Nestled near the top of a sugar maple tree was a Eurasian magpie nest that resembled a cyberpunk porcupine, with thin metal rods sticking out in every direction. ‘They’re Outsmarting Us’: Birds Build Nests From Anti-Bird Spikes 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Vladislav Surkov, a former senior aide to Putin, strongly argued that they pose a major threat to Russia’s integrity, saying private armies like Wagner could turn Russia into a “Eurasian tribal zone.” A week after an armed rebellion rattled Russia, key details about it are still shrouded in mystery 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Soon he found that Rose-rings were taking nest sites from a small owl called the Eurasian Scops Owl in Italy. Parrots Are Taking Over the World 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Overchuk also told TASS, without providing much detail, that negotiations among the Eurasian Economic Union countries on creating a common gas market continue. Russia says regional free trade pact with Iran possible by year-end 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Its aim was to build a massive infrastructure across the Eurasian landmass and Africa, thereby improving the lives of humanity's forgotten millions, while making Beijing the focal point of Eurasia's economic development. Peace for Ukraine courtesy of China? 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Over the two years that followed, Mr. Hiemstra and his colleagues discovered several other nests, built by Eurasian magpies and carrion crows, that contained anti-bird spikes. ‘They’re Outsmarting Us’: Birds Build Nests From Anti-Bird Spikes 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z One theory is that the flutes were used attract the birds of prey - namely the Eurasian Sparrowhawk and the Common Kestrel - to frighten waterfowl, making them easier to catch. Prehistoric bird-wing flutes music to the ears of archaeologists in Israel 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The happy, carefree song of the Eurasian Golden Oriole, especially, moved many. Ukrainian Dam Collapse Triggers ‘Ecological Disaster’ 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z According to Dr. Doolittle’s research, the song patterns of Eurasian blackbirds found in that region resemble Stravinsky’s compositional style. It Rocks in the Tree Tops, but Is That Bird Making Music? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brezinski updated MacKinder, arguing that "geopolitics has moved from the regional to the global dimension, with preponderance over the entire Eurasian continent serving as the central basis for global primacy." Peace for Ukraine courtesy of China? 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The modern conservative movement that cut its teeth in the Cold War with Russia now finds itself riven by deep divisions over how to handle the Eurasian giant and its ruthless leader, Vladimir Putin. Russia-Ukraine war tests traditional conservatism, MAGA’s influence on GOP 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Isolated from the western hemisphere for thousands of years, Native Americans had no resistance to Eurasian diseases. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The lands of Anatolia were attractive to the nomadic Turkic peoples who lived in the semifertile Eurasian steppe, a band of grassland that runs from east to west between western China and Hungary. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z His estate was a huge chunk of the Eurasian continent with millions of people to rule and a great deal of annual tribute. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In words particularly apt for our present world, he added: "America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained." Peace for Ukraine courtesy of China? 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Known for its pointy ears, long legs and leopard-like spotted fur, the Iberian lynx is a species distinct from the more common Eurasian lynx found from France to the Himalayas. Captive breeding helps endangered Iberian lynx population hit record 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Li Hui, China's special representative for Eurasian affairs and former ambassador to Russia, visited Ukraine on Tuesday and Wednesday, and met Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, the ministry said in a statement. Ukraine tells Chinese envoy it won't accept ceding land to Russia 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z An envoy from China, Li Hui, the government’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, is expected in Ukraine and Russia this week in an attempt to help negotiate an end to the war. African leaders plan ‘peace mission’ to Russia and Ukraine. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z How was Chinggis Khan able to unify the peoples of the eastern end of the Eurasian Steppe? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z With the economic creation of a true Eurasian sphere seemingly underway, from that Iran-Saudi entente to Macron's visit to Beijing, we may be seeing the first signs of the changing face of international politics. Peace for Ukraine courtesy of China? 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z China later announced it would send Li Hui, its special representative for Eurasian affairs, to Ukraine after a phone call between Mr. Xi and Mr. Zelensky. In European Tour, Zelensky Reaps Billions More in Promised Military Aid 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Li Hui, China's special representative for Eurasian affairs and former ambassador to Russia, will also visit Poland, France, Germany on the multi-day trip, the foreign ministry announced Friday without providing a detailed schedule. Top Chinese envoy to visit Ukraine, Russia on 'peace' mission 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, is expected to begin his trip on Monday. China will send an envoy to Russia and Ukraine in a quest for peace talks. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Its combination of strategic placement at the terminus of the interconnected Eurasian trade routes known as the Silk Roads, its abundant croplands, and a sophisticated bureaucracy provided a ready-made foundation for Mongol governance. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They said research suggested the Highlands could support about 400 wild Eurasian lynx. MSPs to discuss proposals for return of lynx to Scotland 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The Great Wall of China is testimony to a mysterious culture that dominated the Eurasian steppes between 200 B.C.E. and 100 C.E. Politically savvy princesses wove together a vast ancient empire 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The rate of retreat at Pope has now slowed down, and similarly, for the Eurasian ice sheet, the pulse of extremely rapid retreat would have been temporary. ‘Scary’ new data on the last ice age raises concerns about future sea levels 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z But looking at the embrace of Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin this week, you wonder whether we may need a single “Eurasian Command” to handle an integrated threat. Opinion | Here's the real lesson from the showy Xi-Putin meeting 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z A nomadic group originating in the Eurasian Steppe, the Huns made their way west from central Asia toward Europe around 450. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Eurasian lynx are found in the wild in western Europe, Russia and central Asia. MSPs to discuss proposals for return of lynx to Scotland 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Earthquakes are more likely in this region because it lies at the juncture of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. At least 12 dead after earthquake hits Pakistan and Afghanistan 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The rapid retreat found on the Eurasian Ice Sheet far outpaces the fastest-moving glaciers studied in Antarctica, which have been measured to retreat as quickly as 160 feet per day. ‘Scary’ new data on the last ice age raises concerns about future sea levels 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Xi’s emerging role as the leader of a Eurasian bloc presents dilemmas for U.S. strategists. Opinion | Here's the real lesson from the showy Xi-Putin meeting 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Eurasian tribes were loosely organized, often multiethnic and multilingual, not exclusive to a kinship network, and open to any who were willing to obey the leader. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Carpenter was transferred from the Eurasian organized crime squad to take over as the lead case agent on the basketball probe. How an FBI agent’s wild Vegas weekend stained a probe into NCAA basketball corruption 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The team looked at genomes from thousands of grapevines gathered from across the Eurasian land mass to trace the plant’s long and winding journey from the Stone Age to your neighborhood wine bar. Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 years ago, gene study says 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet Glaciologist Andrew Shepherd of Northumbria University, who was not involved in the study, said the retreat speeds of the Eurasian ice sheet may not actually be so different from what can happen today. ‘Scary’ new data on the last ice age raises concerns about future sea levels 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z In the Netherlands, where Eurasian eagle-owls have been kept as pets, some have escaped. Why We Love Flaco 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z He completely altered the relationships between the nomadic groups on the Eurasian Steppe and radically changed the trajectory of world history. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Fires like these in North American and Eurasian boreal forests created historic amounts of climate-changing carbon dioxide in 2021, according to a new study Thursday in the journal Science. Carbon emissions from boreal forest fires rose in 2021 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Daniel Fried, a former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said that “policy making of this kind is always a shot in dark.” No economic ‘knockout’ yet from West’s sanctions on Russia 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z “The truth is that they were no more representative of present-day humans as a whole than those Neanderthals were of Eurasian Neanderthals as a whole.” These Extinct Elephants Were Neanderthals’ ‘Biggest Calorie Bombs’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The growth of boglands was stimulated more than 10,000 years ago by the collapse of the Eurasian Ice Sheet and release of freshwater, which abruptly raised sea levels and groundwater tables. What the Bog Bodies Knew 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z The Eurasian Steppe, consisting of a western and an eastern half and shown here in light blue, reaches from the Caspian Sea in Europe to the Pacific Ocean. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Eurasian beavers, Woody and Twiggy, broke out from their enclosure on the Mapperton Estate in west Dorset following storm damage. Escaped beavers recaptured with apples and parsnips in Dorset 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Those who seek to invade another country anywhere across the great Eurasian steppes are condemned eventually to winter in it. Ukraine war: Five ways conflict could go in 2023 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z In the clear light of day, the Eurasian woodcock doesn’t stand out. This demure bird has the brightest feathers ever measured 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z And yet the war began in the winter last February, and both armies have extensive experience fighting in wintertime on the Eurasian steppe. For Ukraine, So Much Unexpected Success, and Yet So Far to Go 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z India was a repository of desired goods and a source of inspiration for religion and state-building, but also a bridge to the wider Eurasian world. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Scientists who monitor wild bird flocks have also detected a reassortant virus that contains genes from both the Eurasian H5 and low pathogenic North American viruses. Bird flu has made a comeback, driving up prices for holiday turkeys 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z The site has become a key refuge for Eurasian skylarks, a bird that requires open fields that, in the countryside, have been largely overrun by crop monocultures. Pioneering urban ecology finds surprising biodiversity in Berlin’s green spaces 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Bird watchers now spot winged creatures like paradise flycatcher and Eurasian scops owl that don’t belong to the region. Climate Migration: Nomads move to towns in warming Ladakh 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z “He has been really rising all these last months,” said Marlene Laruelle, director of the Institute for European, Russia and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University. Mercenary chief vented to Putin over Ukraine war bungling 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z The current outbreak began in late 2021, when a highly pathogenic strain of flu known as Eurasian H5N1 was detected in birds in Eastern Canada. With Fall Migration, Bird Flu Flies Back Into Town 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z One analyst has called the longstanding and complicated Eurasian dispute the most serious armed struggle that many Americans have never heard of. Explainer: Fears over festering Armenia-Azerbaijan territorial dispute 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Eurasian beavers, which were once widespread but hunted to extinction 400 years ago, have been reintroduced at multiple sites across Britain. Eurasian Beaver now legally protected in England 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Grey wolves, Eurasian beavers, grey seals, and European bison have seen some of the strongest recoveries in numbers and geographical range. Wildlife species thriving in Europe - report 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z “He thinks he still can win, which is why he’s throwing everything he can at the situation,” said Fiona Hill, a former senior White House official handling Russian and Eurasian affairs. Mercenary chief vented to Putin over Ukraine war bungling 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Before being sworn in as ambassador to Yerevan in 2019, she served as senior adviser for Russia affairs in the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Biden to nominate career diplomat Tracy as ambassador to Russia, White House says 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Rather than put on a show of Eurasian unity against the West, the two leaders struck discordant notes in their public remarks. Your Friday Briefing 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Eurasian beavers have been recognised as a European protected species in England, making it illegal to capture, kill, injure or disturb them. Eurasian Beaver now legally protected in England 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z She has also been senior adviser for Russia affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and has worked at U.S. diplomatic outposts in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. President Biden will nominate Lynne M. Tracy, a career diplomat, to be ambassador to Russia. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z India and Pakistan joined five years ago, making it the world's biggest regional organisation, comprising 40% of the world's population and more than half of the Eurasian land mass. India, Russia to discuss energy security as oil, coal trade soars 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Before being sworn in as ambassador to Yerevan in 2019, she served as senior adviser for Russia affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Biden to nominate career diplomat Tracy as U.S. envoy to Russia -source 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Tracy, who speaks Russian, previously served as a senior adviser for Russian affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Biden chooses veteran diplomat for new US envoy to Russia 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The SCO is a Eurasian political, economic and security organisation that was founded by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in 2001. China's Xi to meet Putin in first foreign trip since pandemic 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z This strain of bird flu, known as Eurasian H5N1, has spread rapidly through domestic poultry, affecting tens of millions of farmed birds, according to the Agriculture Department. Bird Flu Found in Dolphin in Florida and Porpoise in Sweden 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The Yuriev Institute has a storied past — its predecessor was founded in 1908, a time when Eurasian grain was feeding the rapidly growing industrial workforce in Western Europe. Perspective | Ukrainian farms feed Europe and China. Russia wants to end that. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Few places have shaped Eurasian history as much as the ancient Near East. ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The North American and Eurasian plates are pulling away from each other at a rate of one to two inches per year, gradually unzipping the floor of the Atlantic Ocean to form a mid-ocean ridge. See Iceland Aglow in Volcanic Eruptions 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Those include an ostrich, emus, a peacock, two sandhill cranes, cockatoos, and a Eurasian eagle owl, according to the sanctuary’s website. Bird flu kills 700 black vultures, closes animal sanctuary 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Subsequent laboratory testing turned up Eurasian H5N1 in the dolphin’s brain and lungs. Bird Flu Found in Dolphin in Florida and Porpoise in Sweden 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Eurasian grain has been the focus of global attention in large part because war-related shortages cause hunger abroad. Perspective | Ukrainian farms feed Europe and China. Russia wants to end that. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Ms Dugina was a vocal supporter of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a political commentator for her father's International Eurasian Movement organisation. Darya Dugina: Ukraine rejects Russian link in car-bomb murder as fiction 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z It is well known that the North American, and to some degree Eurasian, megafauna, or large animals, disappeared toward the end of the last glaciation period. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The Alps, for example, are a result of the African plate bumping into the Eurasian plate. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z But Mr. Dugin has been one of the most visible proponents of the idea of an imperial Russia at the helm of a “Eurasian” civilization locked in an existential conflict in the West. Aleksandr Dugin calls for Russia to punish Ukraine for his daughter’s death. 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Dugin did not respond to questions emailed to him on Sunday at an address listed on the website of the International Eurasian Movement that he founded. Russian security service accuses Ukraine of killing ultra-nationalist's daughter 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z In public comments and interviews, she has cited her father’s theories in support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which she described as “a clash” of Eurasian and U.S.-led civilizations. Car explosion kills daughter of Putin ally Alexander Dugin, Russia says 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Often described as “Putin’s brain,” he is a longtime proponent of the idea of an imperial Russia at the helm of a “Eurasian” civilization locked in an existential conflict in the West. Your Monday Briefing 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z But Mr. Dugin has long been one of the most visible proponents of the idea of an imperial Russia at the helm of a “Eurasian” civilization locked in an existential conflict in the West. Brazen Attack Near Moscow Rattles Russians 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Treasury said his Eurasian Youth Union actively recruited individuals with military and combat experience to fight on behalf of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine. Factbox: Alexander Dugin advocates a vast new Russian empire 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z “Only after restoring the Greater Russia that is the Eurasian Union, we can become a credible global player,” he said. Aleksandr Dugin, a chief promoter of Russia’s war in Ukraine, is sometimes called ‘Putin’s philosopher.’ 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z And perhaps no group in Crimea has watched the unfolding war with as much trepidation as the Tatars, Turkic Muslims who migrated from the Eurasian steppes in the 13th century. More than a sun-splashed resort, Crimea holds a key place in Russia’s conscience. 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z These could include adaptations for an improved immune response and better UV absorption—helpful as we migrated out of sunny Africa, encountered new pathogens, and had to adjust to dark and cold Eurasian climates. Here’s How Some Species Will Survive Climate Change 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Volcanoes are a fact of life in Iceland, a country that sits atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, caused by the separation of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Volcano eruption near Iceland airport sparks travel fears, risky photo shoots 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z President Bill Clinton's national security advisor on Russian and Eurasian affairs, said of the relationship on the ISS with Russia. NASA game planned contingencies for space station as Russian alliance continued-sources 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z They then modelled how various factors, such as the use of dairy milk and population size, explained the rise of lactase persistence, drawing on the genomes of more than 1,700 ancient Eurasian people. How Humans’ Ability to Digest Milk Evolved from Famine and Disease 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Fagradalsfjall exists at a confluence of fault lines along a boundary between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, a point where they are both pulling apart and rubbing against each other. Reaching Closer to Earth’s Core, One Lava Scoop at a Time 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The British High Court in March threw out a libel claim against journalist Tom Burgis brought by Kazakh mining firm Eurasian Natural Resources Corp over a book about global corruption. UK empowers courts to stop powerful oligarchs from silencing critics 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Eurasian beavers, which were once widespread but hunted to extinction 400 years ago, have been reintroduced at sites across Britain. Beaver protection fears after law delay in England 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Yet this does not mean that all modern domesticated dogs came entirely from that eastern Eurasian domestication process. A new study unlocks secrets of dog domestication 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Yu detailed the proposal for a new Eurasian, transoceanic multilateral collective defense pact in a recent opinion article for the Taipei Times. Navy warship marks S. China Sea ruling anniversary 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The North American Plate, for example, rotates counter-clockwise; the Eurasian Plate rotates clockwise. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Eurasian continent has many examples of collision-zone deformations covering vast areas. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Eurasian beavers were hunted to extinction across the UK in the 16th Century, being killed for meat, fur and a waterproofing oil they secrete. First beaver born in Cheshire for more than 400 years 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “You have these ideas that have fundamentally shaped Western society,” said Jamsheed Choksy, a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. Zoroastrians confront depletion of their ancient faith 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Afghanistan is very prone to earthquakes because it is located on top of a number of fault lines where the Indian and Eurasian plates meet. Why do so many devastating earthquakes happen in Afghanistan? 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z The earthquake was related to the Indian tectonic plate’s ongoing collision with the Eurasian plate, an impact that also created the Himalayas. Why Was Afghanistan’s Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake So Devastating? 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z For the gulls, however, Swanson’s current five hawks, 12 falcons and Eurasian eagle-owl are much better than the typical alternative. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Large parts of South Asia are seismically active because a tectonic plate known as the Indian plate is pushing north into the Eurasian plate. Afghan authorities scramble to reach earthquake zone, toll at 1,000 dead 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried attends the donor conference for Moldova to assist the country with the influx of Ukrainian refugees, in Berlin, Germany, April 5, 2022. U.S. says it's hopeful for a positive resolution soon for Sweden, Finland's NATO bid 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The earthquake was caused by stress built up from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. Why do so many devastating earthquakes happen in Afghanistan? 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Iranian foreign ministry said on Monday that Lavrov's visit was aimed at "expanding cooperation with the Eurasian region and the Caucasus". Russia's Lavrov in Iran to discuss nuclear deal, cooperation 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Mountainous Afghanistan and the larger region of South Asia along the Hindu Kush mountains, where the Indian tectonic plate collides with the Eurasian plate to the north, has long been vulnerable to devastating earthquakes. Eastern Afghanistan earthquake kills at least 255 people 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The study’s team also sequenced the genomes of the seven people and found they were most similar to present-day Eurasian populations. Ancient Women’s Teeth Reveal Origins of 14-Century Black Death 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Chechens and Dagestanis are dying, but it’s not their fight — unless Putin can wave a Eurasian imperial banner. Opinion | Putin’s Ukraine war draws on his vision of nationalism, exceptionalism 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the First Eurasian Economic Forum in Bishkek, via video link from Moscow, Russia May 26, 2022. Putin says he's willing to discuss resuming Ukrainian grain shipments 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council via a video link in Moscow, Russia May 27, 2022. Putin accuses Ukraine of 'sabotaging' negotiating process 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z It all started when I loaned her my digital camera and she managed to photograph a Eurasian kingfisher by a creek in Brittany. Introducing city kids to nature in the hinterlands of Sardinia 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The United States is seeking to “clarify Turkey’s position,” Karen Donfried, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told reporters. Turkey’s Erdogan voices skepticism on Sweden and Finland joining NATO 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z One inspiration for Putin’s dream of an exceptional Eurasian empire is the late Russian historian Lev Gumilev, according to the U.S. official. Opinion | Putin’s Ukraine war draws on his vision of nationalism, exceptionalism 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Karen Donfried, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told reporters in Washington on Friday that the United States was “working to clarify Turkey’s position.” West Increases Pressure on Putin, Including Sanctions on Reputed Girlfriend 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z As an alternative, Mr. Putin has offered his Eurasian Union to the likes of Ukraine, but Belarus as model is a hard sell if Berlin and Barcelona are on the table. Two Europes Confront Each Other Over the Glory, or Shame, of War 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Just as Stalin capitalized on Mao's stalemate in Korea, so the elusive dynamics of Eurasian geopolitics could well transform Putin's losses into Xi's gains. How to end the war in Ukraine: Sanctions against Russia won't work — but this might 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Around 20 million years ago, as the Arabian plate drove under the Eurasian, a belt of sedimentary rock lunged, as fast as rock can lunge, into the Miocene air. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “It’s all about sovereignty,” said Marlène Laruelle, the French director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian studies at George Washington University. Le Pen Closer Than Ever to the French Presidency (and to Putin) 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Candace Rondeaux, professor of Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European studies at Arizona State University, says this may mark an attempt to steer away from the Wagner name because "the brand is tainted". Ukraine conflict: What is Russia's Wagner Group of mercenaries? 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The virus, Eurasian H5N1, is closely related to an Asian strain that has infected hundreds of people since 2003, mostly those who had worked with infected poultry. What to Know About the Bird Flu Outbreak 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z The Ukrainian language hasn’t been taught at UCLA’s department of Slavic East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures “in a number of years” due a lack of demand, said Koropeckyj, a professor in the department. For centuries, the Ukrainian language was overshadowed by its Russian cousin. That's changing 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Masters also found that Africans were somewhat resistant to Eurasian diseases like smallpox, and also to malaria and the other tropical fevers that proved so fatal to Europeans. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “He was haunted by the brutal takeout of Gadhafi,” said Mark Medish, who was senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council during Bill Clinton’s presidency. The making of Vladimir Putin 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z His seduction of the nationalist government in New Delhi is a reflection of Dugin’s insistence that the Eurasian empire must extend to the Indian Ocean. Opinion | The man known as ‘Putin’s brain’ envisions the splitting of Europe — and the fall of China 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z For Putin, if Ukraine goes democratic and adopts European values, which "Eurasianism" is against, then Ukraine becomes the point through which Russia loses its Eurasian values and becomes European. Putin's endgame: Will it be stalemate, nuclear war — or regime change in Moscow? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z In 2014, Dugin said: “Only after restoring the Greater Russia that is the Eurasian Union, we can become a credible global player.” Analysis ❘ Putin’s war on Ukraine is about ethnicity and empire 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The writer is executive vice chairman and chief executive of the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry. Opinion | This war is not about language or culture 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z As the foundation for their new "global governance system," they promised to "enhance transport infrastructure connectivity to keep logistics on the Eurasian continent smooth and … make steady progress on major oil and gas cooperation projects." The geopolitics of the Ukraine war 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z There are two main expanses of the Eurasian steppe. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The authors propose that the Xiamabei foragers belonged to a distinct group of Eurasian migrants, who may have crossed paths with other humans, such as Denisovans, as they spread to East Asia. Archaeologists uncover oldest ochre workshop in East Asia 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z They are mostly situated in the country’s Carpathian Mountains, out of a total forest cover of around 7 million hectares which provide habitat for large mammals like bears, wolves, and Eurasian lynx. Campaigners say Romania failing to stop illegal logging 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Cuba "reiterates its position against the unilateral and unjust sanctions imposed by the West on the Eurasian country and against the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization towards the Russian borders." Cuba to deepen ties with Russia as Ukraine tensions mount 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z That's quite a loaded charge to levy against what are arguably shrewd commercial moves by those two nations to expand trade with the western part of the Eurasian continent. Why America's elites want a new war — or at least want us to fear one 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z As Chapter 3 explained, a large wave of Indo-Europeans migrated from the Eurasian steppes to Europe, India, and Southwest Asia. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They are often hybrids of domestic pigs brought by European explorers five centuries ago and Eurasian or Russian wild boar imported in the 1900s for sport hunting. The rampaging pigs of the San Francisco Bay Area 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Brink previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and has served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Tbilisi, Georgia. Biden expected to name veteran diplomat as Ukraine envoy 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z And in Kazakhstan, a survey by the Eurasian Development Bank found that only 1 in 6 see it as a “friendly country.” Review | China’s true ambitions, and what they mean for the U.S. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “We are definitely pursuing a long-term agreement with Russia because it is a necessity,” Mahmoud Shoori, deputy director of the Institute for Iran and Eurasian Studies in Tehran, said in a phone interview. Russia and Iran Put on a Show of Unity — Against the U.S. 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The Eurasian H5 avian influenza was first detected by Clemson University scientists and confirmed by federal testing, the school said in a news release. Scientists: Duck is 1st wild bird flu case in US in 5 years 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Kazakhstan maintains close relations with Russia, and is a member of the single-market Eurasian Economic Union. Amid Crisis, Kazakhstan’s Leader Chose His Path: Embrace Russia 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Naval War College and an associate of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, emphasized the presence of major U.S. oil companies in the country. Unrest grips another former Soviet Republic while U.S.-Russia tensions continue to rise 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Karen Donfried, the American assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, was in Moscow on Wednesday for talks on Ukraine. Putin and Xi Show United Front Amid Rising Tensions With U.S. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z In the Eurasian Arctic, snow cover this June was the third lowest since records began in 1967, the scientists said. Trends in Arctic Report Card: ‘Consistent, Alarming and Undeniable’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Scattered Eurasian H5 infections have been detected in 2022 from Portugal to Bulgaria and in December, two cases were reported in eastern Canada, officials said. Scientists: Duck is 1st wild bird flu case in US in 5 years 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting at his residence outside Moscow, Russia December 10, 2021. Putin told Biden he'd like to meet in person, Kremlin says - RIA 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z ‘I think Biden will lay out in considerable detail what sanctions the US will undertake,’ said Anders Åslund, adjunct professor at the center for Eurasian, Russian and east European studies at Georgetown University. Biden to hold call with Putin amid fears of Ukraine invasion – live 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The progress, first reported by the Washington Post, came during a meeting with Russian officials in Vienna by a U.S. delegation led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs Christopher Robinson. U.S., Russia make progress toward resolving diplomats spat -State Dept 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z As chance would have it, his elder brother was the singer in a band - so Stewart took his microphone, borrowed a reel-to-reel tape machine and made his first recording, of an Eurasian Blackbird. Martyn Stewart: The David Attenborough of sound 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z But a study of 300 ancient horse genomes found that the ancestors of all modern horses made their first appearance 4200 years ago on the western Eurasian steppe. Choose your own Breakthrough of the Year with Science’s 2021 poll 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The writer is an associate at the Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Opinion | Another oppressive act in Russia 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z About 4200 years ago, a few herders on the western Eurasian steppe got a brand-new mount. Ancient DNA reveals the long-sought homeland of modern horses 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z While U.S. officials call China the nation’s “pacing challenge,” Gen. Carter said Russia and the challenge it poses along the Eurasian landmass remain Britain’s most acute security threat. British military chief says pact with U.S., Australia sign of things to come in Asia 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z "They are trying to diversify their economy away from oil and gas revenues," says football finance expert Professor Simon Chadwick, who is director of Eurasian Sport at Emlyon Business School. Newcastle United takeover: What is PIF, the main owner of the club? 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z A linchpin of Iran’s new outlook, he said, was the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a powerful bloc of Eurasian countries, led by China and Russia, that work together on economic, cultural and security matters. Future of nuclear talks with Iran remains uncertain as Tehran expands enrichment activities 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z This dissonance can lead to feelings of isolation, he explains, adding that the face of "every Eurasian person I've ever seen sings with loneliness". Phil Wang: I wouldn’t be a comic if I wasn’t mixed-race 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z In a paper in this week’s issue of Nature, they conclude that the ancestor of all modern horses made its first appearance by 4200 years ago in the western Eurasian steppe. Ancient DNA reveals the long-sought homeland of modern horses 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The authors then use climate modeling to show that changes in Arctic sea ice and Eurasian snow cover may be fostering the stretched mode and contributing to high-impact winter weather extremes. Climate change may have worsened deadly Texas cold wave, new study suggests 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Molly Montgomery, the deputy assistant secretary of state in the bureau of European and Eurasian affairs, expressed serious concerns for Afghan women and girls as Taliban forces continue their march to Kabul. Taliban advances in Afghanistan ‘deeply concerning’, says Pentagon – US politics live 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z The advance effectively formed the first known common Eurasian market more than 3000 years ago. These ancient weights helped create Europe’s first free market more than 3000 years ago 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Matthew Schmidt, associate professor at the University of New Haven and a specialist on Russian and Eurasian affairs, said Biden was seeking to undermine Putin’s importance on the global stage. Analysis-Biden talks down Russia, spurs allies in bid to back Putin into a corner 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z To find out where in the vast Eurasian steppe herders first began to favor this valuable new horse, Orlando put out a call for more horse bones from archaeological sites. Ancient DNA reveals the long-sought homeland of modern horses 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The new study involved a more idealized model that allows Arctic sea ice and Eurasian snow cover to be easily manipulated to tease out their effects. Climate change may have worsened deadly Texas cold wave, new study suggests 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Eurasian jays are not newcomers to subterfuge: To thwart thieves while they’re storing food, jays will perform something very like sleight of hand — sleight of beak, if you will — if another jay is watching. Magic Tricks May Fool You, but These Birds Can See Through Them 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Matthew Rojansky, director of the Kennan Institute, a center for Russia and Eurasian studies, said Russia’s military threat to Ukraine remains. Life on Ukraine’s front line: Trenches, abandoned homes and fear of conflict without end 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z In past years, the Defense Department and the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs would advise presidents against labeling the atrocity a genocide. In break with predecessors, Biden expected to recognize Armenian genocide 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Its residents include the threatened Egyptian fruit bat, the bee orchid and the Eurasian Thick-knee, a dwindling species of shorebird also known as a stone-curlew. Biologists defy Cyprus’ ethnic cleave to protect environment 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z “To quantitatively evaluate the impact of observed Eurasian snow cover and sea ice loss on atmospheric circulation, they might need to use comprehensive Earth system models,” Sun said. Climate change may have worsened deadly Texas cold wave, new study suggests 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Located between the Eurasian and the North American tectonic plates, Iceland frequently experiences earthquakes as the plates slowly drift in opposite directions at a pace of around 2 centimetres each year. Quaking in their beds, sleepless Icelanders await volcanic eruption 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Officials said if the problem is mainly the Eurasian watermilfoil, there are multiple methods to remove the invasive plants. Aquatic plants threatening color of Blue Heart Springs 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z They found that the way it is related to both North American and Eurasian wolves suggests the populations maintained a connection over an ancient land bridge. In Case You Missed It 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z If Georgia is to continue its progress toward becoming a Western democracy, rather than another Eurasian autocracy, its political parties must embrace compromise, tolerance and power-sharing. Opinion | Democracy is on the brink in one of Russia’s neighbors, and Putin is delighted 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The Eurasian beavers were relocated from Scotland under licence from NatureScot, the country's nature agency. Beavers reintroduced to Dorset after 400-year absence 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Eurasian lynx are the third largest predator in continental Europe after the brown bear and wolf. Into the wild: Could lynx be reintroduced to Scotland? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Habitat that remains wild enough to support the bird is more likely to meet the needs of countless creatures, including yellow-throated martens, red deer, brown bear, moose, Eurasian lynx, and many more, conservationists say. The world’s biggest owl is endangered—but it’s not too late to save it 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z A hulking police detective and his Eurasian partner take turns kicking around the Japanese yakuza. Movies on TV this week: 'Sounder' on TCM and more 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Graeme B. Robertson is professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and director of its Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European studies. Putin’s new war on the opposition suggests he sees it as a real threat 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z “It provokes a very powerful response,” said Snegovaya, a visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. 'Russia is my country': Dissident's daring return sparks protests. Now what? 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Nuland accomplished this from a relatively junior position as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Who is Victoria Nuland? A really bad idea as a key player in Biden's foreign policy team 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, member countries in the Eurasian Economic Union, are permitted to work in Russia with the same standing as Russian citizens. Meet some of the millions of women who migrated recently, risking everything 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z She happened to be researching a rare Eurasian otter population for her Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong, and her interest was piqued, so she investigated further. Exotic Animal Cafés Featuring Otters, Lizards and Owls Raise Alarms 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Vertebrates are getting almost 500 times more funding for each species than invertebrates, with Brown bears, wolves, bitterns and Eurasian lynxes the dazzling stars of conservation funding. Trump says 'we're doing incredibly' as Biden faces reality | First Thing 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z As the Indian plate slips under the Eurasian plate, it lifts up the Himalayas. Nepal and China Say Mount Everest Is Two Feet Higher 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Measurements of bones in a bird mummy suggest the animal was probably a Eurasian kestrel. Unprecedented 3-D view inside Animal Mummies 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Earthquakes of that magnitude are not unusual in the Aleutian Islands, which lie in a seismically active region where two plates, the Pacific and the Eurasian, push against each other. 6.4-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Southern Alaska 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z He suspects that thousands of tombs are spread across the Eurasian steppes, which extend for millions of square miles. How Archaeologists Are Using Deep Learning to Dig Deeper 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Iberian wolves now wander the ghost villages of Galicia, and Eurasian wolves haunt abandoned cold war-era military sites along the former iron curtain. Landscape of fear: why we need the wolf 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Lee’s father was Chinese, and his mother Eurasian. Remembering Bruce Lee, and his time in Seattle, on the 80th anniversary of his birth 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z But pent-up stress caused by collisions with the African plate and Eurasian plate result in frequent earthquakes. Powerful Aegean earthquake kills at least 19 people in Turkey and Greece, injures hundreds 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Eurasian feral pigs run rampant across North America. What Happened to South America’s Missing Mega-Mammals? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Seattle is also experiencing a pattern seen in major revolutions, according to Daniel Chirot, a University of Washington professor of Russian and Eurasian studies. Vile attacks on Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan must end 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z It takes only one watercraft to become a super spreader, introducing an invader like Eurasian watermilfoil or zebra mussels to a waterway. Montana has dive team to search for aquatic invasive species 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said both Asian and Eurasian ticks were discovered on Block Island as part of a decade-long study of ticks on the island. Two exotic tick species found in Rhode Island for the first time, officials say 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The foundation’s website describes it as “a platform for exclusive analysis, research and policy comment on Eurasian and global affairs.” Facebook removes Russian networks tied to intelligence services that interfered in the U.S. in 2016 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z A third strain, Eurasian/North American H5N1, was detected in nearly 100 wild birds by US wildlife biologists. 'You got it': how bird flu turned one US farmer's life upside down 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The bird appears to be a Eurasian kestrel, of the falcon family. Scientists peer inside ancient Egyptian cat, snake and bird mummies 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Scans of the bird revealed that is was probably a Eurasian kestrel. Scans peek beneath wrappings of ancient mummified animals 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z The bird is most likely a Eurasian kestrel, with a damaged beak and left leg, the researchers report. Watch: 3D imaging reveals the ancient lives of Egyptian animal mummies 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Some region: The Eurasian landmass is dominated by, and Europe is menaced by, a thugocracy whose president is pleased with the U.S. president. Opinion | The thugocracy of Vladimir Putin 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Based on ancient DNA from hundreds of horse skeletons, researchers suggest Bronze Age Eurasians overwhelmingly preferred male horses—preferences that may shed light on the earliest days of horse husbandry. Ancient DNA reveals a Bronze Age bias for male horses 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Members included the geology department at Leiden University in the Netherlands, which jokingly installed a bolt in its yard to “stop” the Eurasian plate. From his rustic cabin, 85-year-old geologist and artist Jack Holden has his offbeat off-the-grid lifestyle down to a science 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z He was the great-nephew of one of Asia’s first tycoons, Robert Hotung, an influential Eurasian businessman and philanthropist who was among Hong Kong’s wealthiest individuals at the turn of the 20th century. Stanley Ho, flamboyant 'godfather' of Macau casinos, dies aged 98 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The genome showed the individual was a man—one who shared the same distinctive mixture of East Asian and Eurasian ancestry as today’s Native Americans. Oldest cousin of Native Americans found in Russia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z But that virus contained individual gene segments originating from four distinct sources: humans, birds, and North American and Eurasian pigs. Human Viruses Can Jump into Animals, Too—Sowing the Seeds of Future Epidemics 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Humans likely domesticated horses about 5500 years ago on the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe, and before that, they hunted the beasts for food. Ancient DNA reveals a Bronze Age bias for male horses 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Lamb is a legacy of nomadic herding on the Eurasian Steppe that reaches from Mongolia to Hungary; Hu admits she isn’t fond of the meat, having grown up in the south, in neighboring Sichuan Province. Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palate 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z A Eurasian doctor falls in love with a married U.S. war correspondent in Hong Kong. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 10, 2020 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z I was in my kitchen, which overlooks a large sycamore tree in the yard, when I saw two Eurasian blue tits feeding on its seeds. Wildlife through the window: what readers have spotted during lockdown 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But one legacy of Malacca’s crossroads culture is struggling to survive in the 21st century: its Indigenous population of Eurasians, known as the Kristang, in reference to their Roman Catholic faith. 500 Years Ago, This Port Linked East to West. Its Fate Was to Fade Away. 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z The aid allocation reaches far beyond Africa as well, with roughly $15 million to be spread among 12 Eastern European and Eurasian nations. State Department: U.S. ‘leading the world’ in coronavirus fight while China takes credit 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Where the landing of Europeans in the Americas in the 15th century was sudden and calamitous, the Eurasian cultural exchange happened slowly, over centuries, between nations meeting as relative equals. Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palate 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z In Georgia - the small Eurasian country south of Russia and north of Turkey - archaeologists unearthed jars of honey from a tomb that date back 5,500 years. West Virginia man takes a bite out of history — literally 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The UK is situated in the middle of the Eurasian tectonic plate, so is not close to these pressure points. How many earthquakes happen in the UK? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z “Our community brought East and West together,” said Darian Tan, 35, a Kristang digital marketer and the lead guitarist of a band made up of fellow Eurasians. 500 Years Ago, This Port Linked East to West. Its Fate Was to Fade Away. 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Thousands of years ago, Eurasian wild boars started lurking around the first human settlements to eat garbage, gradually evolving into domestic pigs. Opinion | A quarter of the global pig population has been wiped out. Here’s why. 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The mountains formed as a result of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates colliding about 80 million years ago, according to NASA. Morocco's Anti-Atlas Mountains seen in colorful new NASA image 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Later, Eurasian wild boar were imported to North America for hunting. Feral Pigs Roam the South. Now Even Northern States Aren’t Safe. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The Balkans is in an area prone to seismic activity, lying close to a fault line between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. Albania arrests over collapsed buildings in quake 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z In Goa, Portugal’s first territorial possession in Asia, as well as other Portuguese outposts like Macau on the Chinese coast, Eurasian communities thrived. 500 Years Ago, This Port Linked East to West. Its Fate Was to Fade Away. 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Wang was arrested while conducting research on the Qajar dynasty that once ruled Iran for his doctorate in late 19th and early 20th century Eurasian history, according to Princeton. Iran frees Chinese-American scholar for US-held scientist 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Destructive earthquakes are fairly common in the Balkan region, near where two of the earth’s major tectonic plates, the Eurasian and African meet. Amid Death and Debris From Earthquake, Albania Clings to Hope 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Eurasian boar first arrived in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, imported as livestock or for hunting. Feral Pigs Roam the South. Now Even Northern States Aren’t Safe. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Testifying with Taylor was George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Mike Pompeo, secretary of nothing: Unlike Bill Taylor, he's a disgrace to West Point 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Likewise, Kent, the deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, emphasized his family’s military service during his testimony last week. Public servants use impeachment hearings to offer lessons of history and military service in rejoinder to Trump 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Two other witnesses - Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs; and David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs - were due to testify later in the day. 'It will live forever in American political history': reaction to Trump impeachment hearing 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Reacting to the first day of impeachment hearings, Pelosi told reporters the testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Eurasian Affairs George Kent and U.S. charge d'affaires for Ukraine William Taylor Jr. was "devastating." Pelosi comments show Democrats want to 'overturn' the American justice system: White House spokesman 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Wednesday, Nov. 13 - George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, and William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine. Witnesses in the Trump impeachment inquiry 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, lawmakers and lawyers questioned a bow tie-wearing George Kent, the deputy secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, and bespectacled Ambassador Bill Taylor, charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine. Consequential, but dull: Trump impeachment hearings begin without a bang 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs gave this testimony though the Trump administration reportedly directed him not to. Key witnesses in the Trump impeachment inquiry: a guide 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Bill Taylor, the acting US ambassador to Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, are scheduled to testify at 10am on Capitol Hill. Trump impeachment inquiry: witnesses line up for first public hearings – live 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z As part of our ongoing research on Eurasian security and governance at the Ohio State University Mershon Center for International Security Studies, we posed these questions to 2,000 Ukrainians. Ukrainians are divided over Trump’s "quid pro quo" 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z William B. Taylor Jr., the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, will testify Wednesday alongside George Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs. Who is Stephen R. Castor, the GOP staff attorney in the impeachment hearings? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The hearings Wednesday will feature testimony from William B. Taylor Jr., the acting ambassador to Ukraine, and George Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Historic impeachment hearings are set to begin, with GOP and Democrats pushing dueling messages on Trump’s conduct 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z The open hearings begin Wednesday with testimony from William Taylor Jr., the acting ambassador to Ukraine, and George Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. On eve of open hearings, GOP, Democrats lay out competing cases on impeachment 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Another witness, Philip Reeker, serves in an acting capacity as assistant secretary at the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, a potentially precarious status. Career federal employees take risky and rare role in impeachment drama 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z First up will be William Taylor, the charge d’affaires in Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau, both testifying on Wednesday. Meet the witnesses: Diplomats start off impeachment hearings 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Also on Wednesday: George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, will appear before the same committee. Editorials from around New England 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Taylor is the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine and Kent serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. House Democrats announce public impeachment hearings next week 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Other birds, including a Eurasian eagle owl with penetrating orange eyes and a deep “hoot,” and a nearby great-horned owl that replies with its even deeper hoo-hoo-hoots, are permanent residents of the center. Indiana Raptor Center aids hawks, owls, eagles and falcons 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z In December 2018, Livingston attended a meeting with George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs who has also testified in the impeachment probe. Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Also spotted were Eurasian lynx, wolves and several avian and bat species. Chernobyl shocker as endangered wild horses take up residence in the Exclusion Zone 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Reeker was named acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs in mid-March. Diplomat says top leadership of the State Department rejected his entreaties to publicly support ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, testified on Saturday before three Democratic-led House of Representatives panels conducting an inquiry into whether to impeach Trump. U.S. diplomat unaware of possible quid pro quo on Ukraine: source 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z House Democrats resumed their impeachment inquiry on Saturday, hearing testimony behind closed doors from acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker. Former Trump chief of staff Kelly says he warned president of impeachment 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z The committees were also scheduled to hear in closed session on Saturday from Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of European and Eurasian affairs at the State Department. Republicans Fight Trump’s Impeachment by Attacking the Process 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, George Kent, deputy assistant secretary in the bureau of European and Eurasian affairs, told the House committees he was sidelined on Ukraine policy and told to “lay low”. Pompeo ignored pleas to support former Ukraine envoy, ex-adviser says 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Earlier this week, Fiona Hill, a former senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs talked about Giuliani’s perceived influence over Trump Cabinet members on Ukraine. Rick Perry says Trump directed him to Giuliani about allege Ukraine corruption 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A career diplomat, Mr. Kent has served since last fall as the deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Senior State Dept. Ukraine Expert Says White House Sidelined Him 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z A British thief recruits a Eurasian performer for a caper involving an Arab’s Chinese statuette. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Kent is the head of the State Department’s bureau of European and Eurasian affairs, but he served until 2018 as a top American diplomat in Ukraine. Seeking Ukraine Aid Records, House Subpoenas White House Budget Office and Pentagon 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z For some species, like the Eurasian jackdaw, their sounds are used to warn each other about dangerous humans approaching. Jackdaw birds can tell humans apart — and remember which ones are violent 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z He served as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2009-2013. Opinion | The other Ukraine scandal: Trump’s threats to our ambassador who wouldn’t bend 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The agenda for the Eurasian conference showed Giuliani was the only American scheduled to speak at the gathering. Giuliani cancels paid appearance next week at Kremlin-backed conference 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The western Mediterranean is seismically restless because of the collision of three tectonic plates: the African, the Eurasian and the Anatolian. Hidden world of undersea volcanoes and lava flows discovered off Italian coast 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He said fighters that supported the Islamic State extremist group in Syria and Iraq “are striving to create new strongholds, including in the Eurasian space.” UN chief: World faces ‘unprecedented threat’ from terrorism 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Pakistan straddles part of the boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, making the country susceptible to earthquakes. Pakistan earthquake leaves 19 dead and 300 injured in Kashmir region 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Both of us served as assistant secretaries of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, as well as on the staff of the National Security Council, under Republican and Democratic presidents. Opinion | The other Ukraine scandal: Trump’s threats to our ambassador who wouldn’t bend 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Thursday was a tough day to own a Eurasian lynx. Bears (and Lynx and Rhinos) Are Officially ‘Dangerous,’ N.Y. Says 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Just as British colonial Hong Kong was famously described by the Eurasian writer Han Suyin as existing on “borrowed time in a borrowed place”, the clock to 2047 is ticking. Explainer: Hong Kong's 'borrowed time' - worry about 2047 hangs... 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z That can still feel like a gamble to wildlife officials in the Northeast, who are already scarred from battles with other invasive aquatic species, such as Eurasian watermilfoil and hydrilla, Mr. Doyle said. This Carnivorous Plant Invaded New York. That May Be Its Only Hope. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The Eurasian lynx is considered extinct in the Spanish and French Pyrenees, and the last time it was witnessed in these mountains was in the 1930s. First Eurasian Lynx born in Pyrenees in almost a century 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker said Friday the reforms should demonstrate nobody is above the law. US official backs North Macedonia’s EU bid, urges reforms 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z All of these early Eurasian human fossils seem to represent what might be called ‘failed’ dispersals from Africa — they reached the Middle East and southeastern Europe, but did not persist in these regions. An early dispersal of modern humans from Africa to Greece 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The DEP says the goal of the herbicide treatment is to get rid of Eurasian watermilfoil, an aquatic invasive plant, in the lake. Maine to use herbicide to eradicate invasive plant from lake 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The FCC documentation refers to model number A2159, which lines up with MacBook-related filings Apple made with the Eurasian Economic Commission last month. FCC filing is latest evidence that Apple will soon update its most affordable MacBook Pro 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z He received a bachelor’s degree in South Asian studies from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in Russian and Eurasian studies from Harvard. The Threat of War Brings New Fears to an American Hostage in Iran 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center and as its vice president for Europe and Eurasian affairs. Trump announces he intends to nominate Esper as secretary of defense 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The researchers say they split off from the former 38,000 years ago – in other words, very shortly after Eurasians and East Asians themselves became genetically distinct. Ancient Siberia was home to previously unknown humans, say scientists 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z There, one chunk of Earth’s crust — the Philippine Sea plate — ploughs beneath another, the Eurasian plate. Japanese drill ship fails to reach the earthquake-generating zone 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The unidentified Russian was found carrying four critically endangered Eurasian otters and 10 scorpions in a box stocked with food and milk on Thursday, conservationists said. Indonesia nabs Russian trying to smuggle baby otters, scorpions 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z A Russian weightlifter suffered a horrific injury Sunday at the Eurasian Weightlifting Championship, with cameras capturing the moment one of the 20-year-old athlete's legs snap, sending him crumbling to the ground in agony. Russian weightlifter suffers gruesome injury trying to squat more than 500 pounds 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It is pressuring partners and allies not to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s massive programme to build infrastructure projects across the Eurasian landmass. Could the US-China trade row become a global cold war? | Nouriel Roubini 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The results reveal these individuals were part of a previously unknown yet widespread group, dubbed the Ancient North Siberians by the team, who were genetically distinct from both Eurasians and East Asians. Ancient Siberia was home to previously unknown humans, say scientists 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z “A bit more technically, it is located near the Azores-Gibraltar Plate Boundary, which marks the boundary between two major tectonic plates: Africa and Eurasian,” he explained. Tectonic plate 'peeling apart' could 'shrink' the Atlantic, scientists say 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Populations of the Eurasian otter, a fish-eating mammal, are declining in Asia and it is a protected species in Indonesia. Indonesia nabs Russian trying to smuggle baby otters, scorpions 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z McCabe: So, I was on a squad in New York that was referred to as the Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force, originally, we were called the Russian Organized Crime Task Force. Transcript: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The U.S. really helped these three Eurasian countries find common cause amidst a hailstorm of American threats and bluster. Sharmine Narwani on the end of the Syrian war and the "post-imperial Middle East" 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Aquatic nuisance species include a variety of plant and animal species, such as zebra mussels and Eurasian watermilfoil. North Dakota could soon set up invasive species program 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z The Eurasian Economic Union groups Russia with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in a common market that seeks to remove barriers to the free movement of goods, services, capital and labor. Putin: Belt and Road fits with Eurasian Economic Union goals 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z "Establishing when, exactly, the Eurasian fauna entered Afro-Arabia remains one of the most important questions in paleontology, and West Turkana is one of the only places we know of to find that answer." Missing link found? 22-million-year-old monkey species found in Africa 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Balian was arrested last May after being identified as a person of interest during an investigation by the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force into possible ties between the Mexican Mafia and Armenian organized crime. Glendale police detective sentenced to 21 months in prison for obstruction and bribery charges 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The projects reflect Tajikistan’s strategic position in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, an ambitious infrastructure investment plan to pull the Eurasian land mass into its economic embrace. In Central Asia’s forbidding highlands, a quiet newcomer: Chinese troops 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Victoria Nuland is a former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs. Opinion | What Ronald Reagan would tell President Trump about arms control 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility is a striking name for an absence. Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z At the same time, the seven new iPads that Apple registered with the Eurasian Economic Commission last week potentially include the four Troughton-Smith noted on Twitter. Apple reportedly making a 7th-gen iPod touch and new iPads 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z His last day as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs will be Feb. 15. Top diplomat for European affairs resigns from State Department 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z He’s the assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs. Top US diplomat for Europe resigns 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Even after the Neanderthals became extinct, roughly 40,000 years ago, the archaic human populations of the earth — Reich gives them names like Ancient North Eurasians — were utterly unlike the populations we see today. Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z We are talking about an important transportation hub for the Eurasian continent, That is about to become the Chicago of Eurasia hopefully with less guns and drugs. Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Many researchers, including Berg, had concluded that northern Europeans had inherited those genes from an ancient migration—that of the Yamnaya herders who migrated from the Eurasian steppe to central Europe about 4000 years ago. Genetic data on half a million Brits reveal ongoing evolution and Neanderthal legacy 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Tens of thousands of years ago, humans interbred with Neanderthals, and anyone of Eurasian ancestry now carries some Neanderthal genes. What We Learned in 2018: Science 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Victoria Nuland is the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Opinion | In a single tweet, Trump destroys U.S. policy in the Middle East 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The Oakland-based all-female vocal ensemble sings seasonal favorites from Eastern European and Eurasian traditions in the acoustically pleasing confines of the venerable Bradbury Building. Weekend Picks: Taylor Mac, ABT's 'Nutcracker,' Messiah two ways, plus more holiday fun 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z A decade later, a British geographer observed that railroads had shifted the locus of global power landward into the interior of the vast Eurasian continent. Trump’s trade Czar, the latest architect of imperial disaster 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Writing in the journal Cell, the scientists propose that the plague first emerged in the Eurasian mega-settlements about 5,700 years ago. Earliest plague strain found in Sweden holds clue to stone age migration from east 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Taycan is an artificial name drawn from a Eurasian word meaning ‘young wild horse.’ L.A. Auto Show: Porsche execs on Taycan and the electric future 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “You can make the argument that you should keep the dialogue going,” said Ms. Stent, who is now director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University. Naval Clash Raises the Stakes for Trump’s Meeting With Putin 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z His $1 trillion, 64-country One Belt, One Road Eurasian trade, infrastructure and development initiative symbolises China’s economic, financial and developmental outreach, which now extends throughout the Indo-Pacific region, Africa and Latin America. The Chinese export we really should be worried about: repression | Simon Tisdall 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Victoria Nuland, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, famously stated that $5 billion had been invested Ukraine’s democracy and reforming Ukraine’s judicial system. The struggle for the rule of law in Ukraine 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z After he reviewed the documents, Winer said, he shared a summary with Victoria Nuland, the former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. New details emerge on anti-Trump dossier as House GOP seeks Fusion GPS boss testimony 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Wild boars, also known as Eurasian wild pigs, are the largest terrestrial mammals in Hong Kong, a city of more than seven million people, according to the local Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. Wild Boars in Hong Kong Prove Not Every Pig in the City Is Babe 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “We are cultivating Greece as an anchor of stability in the eastern Med and western Balkans,” A. Wess Mitchell, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, said in June. U.S. Spycraft and Stealthy Diplomacy Expose Russian Subversion in a Key Balkans Vote 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The Eurasian lynx escaped between 24 and 29 October 2017 before being found at a nearby caravan site where she was shot dead by a marksman on 10 November. Zoo owners warned of lynx escape risk 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Prosecutors say Oksuz formerly led the nonprofit Turquoise Council of Americans and Eurasians and allegedly lied on U.S. Ex-Houston businessman indicted over 2013 congressional trip 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z His efforts to unite “Russian-speaking peoples” into a Eurasian bloc persuaded thousands of people to stop speaking Russian. Opinion | Putin’s war is transforming Ukraine 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Dean, 49, a mural painter by trade, holds a mug of tea while he watches two young Eurasian lynx, each the size of a large dog, play around their mother. ‘How do you catch a lynx?’: when buying a zoo goes horribly wrong 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Among the 200 different species listed for sale were two non-native species banned from international commercial trade - the Eurasian otter and the black spotted turtle. Facebook animal trade exposed in Thailand 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In September 2013, speaking in Kazakhstan, the heart of Asia’s ancient Silk Road caravan route, he proclaimed a “one belt, one road initiative” aimed at economically integrating the enormous Eurasian land mass around Beijing’s leadership. Beijing’s bid for global power in the age of Trump 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z He was a special negotiator for Eurasian conflicts from 2001 to 2004, followed by two years as deputy director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. Notable deaths in the Washington area 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The team collected information on four of the major Eurasian species: 46 house sparrows, 43 Spanish sparrows, 31 Italian sparrows, and 19 Bactrianus sparrows. How the house sparrow made its home with humans 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Around the same time, the Eurasian population of a new primate — Homo sapiens — began to explode. Mom was a Neanderthal. Dad was something else entirely. Meet the strangest hybrid in human history. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z They coexisted, probably in relatively small populations scattered across the vast Eurasian landmass, until both became extinct some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. When a Neandertal Fell for a Denisovan, What Happened Was Only Human 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z A. Wess Mitchell, an assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, replied that “the chilling effect on the Russian economy has been significant and measurable.” Facing New Russian Hacking, Senators Signal They Are Ready to Act 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z It is “not a matter to be judged by the president without Justice Department and inspector general input,” said Eugene Casey, the former chief of the F.B.I.’s Eurasian Organized Crime Unit. Embracing Conspiracy Theory, Trump Escalates Attack on Bruce Ohr 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The Chinese-majority country, which has significant Malay, Indian and Eurasian communities, has a history of race riots and strictly enforces multiculturalism through race-based policies. Why Crazy Rich Asians could never please all 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The writer is U.S. assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Opinion | The U.S. government hasn’t ‘forgotten’ about Turkey detainees 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The ban was enforced after a Eurasian lynx called Lilleth was shot dead by a marksman days after its escape from the animal kingdom. Lynx death zoo animal ban reversed 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Even in Eurasian countries that are undemocratic, a desire for economic growth acts as a moderating force in their relations with one another. The idea of Eurasia is once again the subject of geopolitics 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Two hundred years ago, the vast Eurasian territory was an eastern counterpart to the fledgling United States in the west. Opinion | Mueller stood up to Putin. Now it’s Trump’s turn. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z He was identified as a person of interest by the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force, which was probing ties between the Mexican Mafia and Armenian organized crime. Judge orders L.A. Times to alter story about Glendale cop, sparking protest from newspaper 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z A few such claims for early Eurasian hominins have previously been made. Tools from China are oldest hint of human lineage outside Africa 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “It’s no longer clear who’s the fox and who are the chickens,” said Stephen Sestanovich, a senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. As Trump plans meeting with Putin, Europeans fear further meddling by Moscow 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “The executive branch has bowed to what the president wants,” Angela Stent, director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University, said of Trump and his administration. Trump and Putin agree to a summit in hopes of soothing U.S.-Russia tensions 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Michael McFaul served as Barack Obama's ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 and before that on the National Security Council as special assistant to the president and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs. Obama’s Russia expert on the “giant gap” between Trump’s policies and his friendship with... 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z This is where the Eurasian and African tectonic plates drift away from those that carry North and South America, creating new crust in the process. Submarine cables could be repurposed as earthquake detectors 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Mitchell, who oversees the Bureau of European and European and Eurasian Affairs, claims Russia and China want, in different ways, “to defeat the West.” Romania: US diplomat says corruption helps ‘hostile powers’ 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The Rutland Herald reports that the invasive Eurasian milfoil is growing up to the surface of the south side of the lake and threatens to damage boat propellers and drive away swimmers. Group gets harvester for milfoil on Vermont’s Lake Bomoseen 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Diverging views on the SCO’s economic and security roles are the source of the important hidden tensions with the grouping, said Alexander Cooley, director of Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Eurasian studies. Shanghai meet shows China’s expansive goals in Central Asia 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z He added that he might possibly be of Eurasian extraction. How the AP covered the RFK assassination 50 years ago 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z It was also a hub on the ancient Eurasian Silk Road, which China cites as its inspiration for the BRI. China talks of building a “digital Silk Road” 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The other visitor was Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs A. Wess Mitchell, the highest-ranking American official responsible for U.S. relations with Hungary. Perspective | Trump loves a strongman, so of course he fawns over Hungary’s Viktor Orban 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Alisa Sopova, a Ukrainian freelance journalist, is currently a research scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard. Opinion | How’s Life in the War Zone? Not Great 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z During Monday’s meeting in Sochi, Putin hailed the Eurasian Economic Union as a dynamic group and pointed at its economic achievements. Putin hosts meeting of Moscow-dominated economic alliance 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z It will involve Iran, Russia and other members of the Moscow-dominated Eurasian Economic Union. Kremlin: US move on Iran brings Russia and Europe closer 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The deal between Iran, Russia and other members of the Moscow-dominated Eurasian Economic Union is set to be signed next week. Europe isn’t US ‘vassal,’ wants to uphold Iran nuclear deal 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The finding comes from analysis of DNA found in 137 human skeletons unearthed on the Eurasian steppe. Hun migration 'linked to deadly plague' 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z They analyzed DNA from across the ancient Eurasian steppe and studied samples that ranged from medieval times all the way back to the Mesolithic era. Ancient DNA Study Pokes Holes in Horse Domestication Theory 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Instead, their data suggest the Namazga, a group of herders living south of the steppe around 3300 B.C.E., before the great Yamnaya migration, were the ones who contributed West Eurasian genes to Asian populations. These Asian hunter-gatherers may have been the first people to domesticate horses 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Genotypes that today are typical of Africa and Asia, and a subgenotype from India, are shown to have an early Eurasian presence. Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The agreement was signed under intense scrutiny from Moscow, which was reassured only after Yerevan agreed to enter the Eurasian Economic Union first. Armenia contemplates the unlikely: a nonviolent revolution on the cusp of victory 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z And it is one that is expected to widen as China pushes forward with its One Belt, One Road initiative to link Eurasian nations via land and sea routes. Chinese influx transforming Myanmar’s quintessential city 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z For Damgaard, the research enables a more nuanced view of the Eurasian steppes—and how horses helped humanity travel and blend. Ancient DNA Study Pokes Holes in Horse Domestication Theory 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Leaving on such a big journey, the size of the task ahead was hard to fathom as I alighted from the ferry in Calais, the entirety of the Eurasian landmass ahead of me. Warmshowers: why free hospitality for bike tourists is a priceless experience | Joshua Cunningham 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa. Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Under Sargsyan’s rule, Armenia bought weapons from Moscow and joined the Eurasian Economic Union, a Russian-backed economic bloc designed to deter neighboring countries from trading with Europe. Armenia’s prime minister resigns amid large-scale protests 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Nearly all of the Indian subcontinent’s ethnic and linguistic groups are the product of three ancient Eurasian populations who met and mixed: local hunter-gatherers, Middle Eastern farmers, and Central Asian herders. South Asians are descended from a mix of farmers, herders, and hunter-gatherers, ancient DNA reveals 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z However, the new genetic analysis reveals that the West Eurasian ancestry comes from a later migration of people into South Asia some 4,000 to 3,000 years ago. Ancient DNA Study Pokes Holes in Horse Domestication Theory 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z In Finland, for example, the Northern lapwing and Eurasian curlew have usually built their ground nests on barley fields after farmers have sown their crops in the spring. 5 Plants and Animals Utterly Confused by Climate Change 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The explanation was provided by Reich who has discovered that a now nonexistent group of people, the Ancient North Eurasians, thrived around 15,000 years ago and then split into two groups. David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’ 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Almost all those nations emerged in the 20th century from the Eurasian empires. The demise of the nation state 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, herders from the Eurasian steppe moved into the northern part of the subcontinent and mixed with Indus periphery people still there, forming the Ancestral North Indian population. South Asians are descended from a mix of farmers, herders, and hunter-gatherers, ancient DNA reveals 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z That argument is based on the presence of Western Eurasian ancestry in South Asian populations. Ancient DNA Study Pokes Holes in Horse Domestication Theory 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z “But also we’re happy to see they had this Eurasian ancestry.” The F.B.I. and the Mystery of the Mummy’s Head 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z No physical specimen of the Ancient North Eurasian people had ever been discovered when Reich announced their existence. David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’ 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z That term refers to the $900-billion plan for ports, roads and railways in up to 65 Eurasian countries where China hopes to increase trade. A velvet fist in an iron glove? China talks tough about Taiwan, but shows signs of a softer policy 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z If there are enough geese, the swift foxes, black leopard, bobcat and Eurasian lynx will all get a share. Nebraska family sticks together and works at zoo 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Charles Gati is a senior research professor of European and Eurasian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the author of “Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt.” Review | Why Hungary’s prime minister blames George Soros for all the country’s woes 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Wess Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, said Wednesday in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, that he sees a “tremendous window of opportunity” for progress in the Balkans. US official says ‘now is the time’ to solve Balkan disputes 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z |
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