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Why urban planners should pay attention to restaurant-review sites
Apartment seekers in big cities often use the presence of restaurants to determine if a neighborhood would be a good place to live. It...
Impacts of selective logging on Congo’s intact forest landscapes
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Curbing indoor air pollution in India
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Comprehensive review of the future of CRISPR technology in crops
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A material way to make Mars habitable
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More farmers, more problems: How smallholder agriculture is threatening the western Amazon
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Invasive parrots have varying impacts on European biodiversity, citizens and economy
Non-native parrots can cause substantial agricultural damage and threaten native biodiversity. While substantial evidence of negative impact in Europe is currently lacking, there are...
‘Artificial intelligence’ fit to monitor volcanoes
More than half of the world's active volcanoes are not monitored instrumentally. Hence, even eruptions that could have rung an alarm can occur without...
Study bolsters case that climate change is driving many California wildfires
A new study combs through the many factors that can promote wildfire in California, and concludes that in many, though not all, cases, warming...
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