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Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry’s current carbon emissions
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Heat tolerance in ectotherms scales predictably with body size
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 November 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-00938-yAnalysis of ectotherm thermal death curves in the context of both challenge intensity and duration shows...
Researchers map susceptibility to human-made earthquakes
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Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early land vertebrates
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