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Living walls line Milan’s Bosco Verticale apartment building

15 January 2021

Cómo convertir nuestras ciudades en Treetopias

Estamos y seguiremos plantando más árboles callejeros, arboledas urbanas y cúmulos informales de árboles en nuestros parques y espacios verdes. La Treetopia ha comenzado.
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Geohealth
Scientists excavate the remains of a Taíno house at Los Buchillones, Cuba.

15 January 2021

Taíno Stilt Houses May Have Been an Adaptation to Climate Change

A coastal village in the Caribbean flourished during a period of increased hurricanes. Research suggests the Taíno designed their dwellings to persist through the greater storm surges.
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Biogeosciences
Black truffles on display

13 January 2021

A Culinary Silver Lining of Climate Change: More Truffles

The cultivation potential of a popular truffle species will increase in central Europe by 2050, global climate models predict.
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Geohealth
Salmon in a smokehouse

13 January 2021

Network Connects Indigenous Knowledges in the Arctic and U.S. Southwest

Indigenous Peoples from the Arctic and the U.S. Southwest have joined together to tackle issues of food sovereignty in two environmental extremes. Their bond led to a swift response to COVID-19.
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Geology & Geophysics
Close-up image of garnet lherzolite

12 January 2021

Modeling the Creation of Cratons, Earth’s Secret Keepers

Geoscientists have long been trying to answer the complicated questions of how and why Earth’s continents formed. New research suggests a solution that surprised even the investigators themselves.
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Climate Change
Watery mud accumulates between rows of crops.

11 January 2021

European Colonists Dramatically Increased North American Erosion Rates

Around 200 years ago, when conversion of land for agriculture became more widespread, the amount of sediment accumulating in riverbeds across the continent jumped tenfold.
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Climate Change
A satellite image of the entire arm of Cape Cod

8 January 2021

Cape Cod: Shipwrecks, Dune Shacks, and Shifting Sands

Living in Geologic Time: How long will the cape keep its fist raised against the waves?
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Planetary Sciences
A woman operates a four-legged robot

7 January 2021

Very Good Space Boys: Robotic Dogs May Dig Into Martian Caves

Four-legged, autonomous robots known as “Mars Dogs” will explore previously inaccessible caves to look for signs of life and potential locations for future human colonies.
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Climate Change
Trail in a dry forest on Saint Lucia

5 January 2021

Empeora la Crisis Hídrica en el Caribe Oriental

Científicos, políticos y pobladores temen que la actual escasez de agua y los largos períodos de sequía puedan empeorar a medida que cambie el clima y que el Acuerdo de París se haya quedado corto.
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Geohealth
Permafrost below grass

24 December 2020

Experimentos Revelan Cómo el Carbono del Permafrost se Convierte en Dióxido de Carbono

Muestras de campo provenientes de Alaska muestran cómo la luz solar y el hierro convierten el carbono del permafrost en dióxido de carbono. Los modelos climáticos ignoran este proceso.
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