Yao Ming was brought to the world on September 12, 1980, in Shanghai, China. Yao Zhiyuan is Yao Ming’s dad, and Fang Fengdi is his mom. Ming’s dad was also a basketball player for a neighborhood Shanghai team, standing 6 feet 10 inches (roughly 208 cm) tall. In the 1970s, Ya...
Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin1,2, but is increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire3,4. Here we quantify these impacts over the past two decades using remote-sensing estimates of fire and deforestation and comprehensive range estimates of...
Victoria, Australia (Department of Agriculture and Water Resources2018). These forests occupy ~1.2 million hectares and range from dry open lowland forest along the coast into the mid-hills (5–400 m a.s.l) to closed tall forest at high elevation (~1000–1300 m a.s.l.). The most c...
In 1993, the Washington Bullets draftedGheorghe Muresan, a 7 feet 7 inches tall center from Romania, who wastied as the tallest player in NBA history. Who was Muresan tied with? TeammateManute Bol, a 7 feet 7 inches tall center from Sudan—although Bol played just two games for Washington...