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Diverse livelihoods helped resilient Levänluhta people survive a climate disaster
A multidisciplinary research group dated the bones of dozens of Iron Age residents of the Levänluhta site in Finland, and studied the carbon and...
Big data reveals we’re running out of time to save environment and ourselves
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Learn from past to protect oceans
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Warming climate undoes decades of knowledge of marine protected areas
A new study highlights that tropical coral reef marine reserves can offer little defence in the face of climate change impacts. And the changes...
No time to waste to avoid future food shortages
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Dissolved oxygen and pH policy leave fisheries at risk
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Hummingbirds show up when tropical trees fall down
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Novel coronavirus detected, monitored in wastewater
A new approach to monitoring the novel coronavirus (as well as other dangerous pathogens and chemical agents) is being developed and refined. Known as...
Iron deficiency in corals?
When iron is limited, the microalgae that live within coral cells change how they take in other trace metals, which could have cascading effects...
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