Empowerment of women worldwide key to achieving competing goals
World hunger and biodiversity loss can both be addressed by ensuring that women worldwide have access to education and contraception, an interdisciplinary team of...
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New research unlocks forests’ potential in climate change mitigation
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Engagement with natural environment a significant contributor to life satisfaction
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Oil-sands operators bet on local advantage as U.S. partners flee.
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Cosumnes River provides model for floodplain restoration in California.
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The formation of gold deposits in South Africa
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Can virtual reality help us prevent falls in the elderly and others?
Every year, falls lead to hospitalization or death for hundreds of thousands of elderly Americans. Standard clinical techniques generally cannot diagnose balance impairments before...
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