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A youth farmer in Los Angeles County gives a tour of an urban farm
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Urban Agriculture Combats Food Insecurity, Builds Community

by DJ McCauley 25 January 202121 February 2023

Innovations in urban agriculture—from creative reuse of stormwater to soil rehabilitation—can help fight food insecurity and prevent further food issues.

Research ecologist Steven Mirsky evaluates a cereal rye cover crop.
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Cover Crops, Sensors, and Food Security

by DJ McCauley 25 January 20214 November 2022

Forward-Thinking Ideas for the USDA’s Agriculture Innovation Agenda

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Tree Rings Reveal How Ancient Forests Were Managed

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 22 January 202121 July 2022

By analyzing thousands of oak timbers dating from the 4th to 21st centuries, scientists have pinpointed the advent of a forest management practice.

A pink laser sublimates an ice core in a scientific instrument chamber.
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The Catcher in the Ice

Bas den Hond, Science Writer by Bas den Hond 22 January 20212 September 2022

There are three ways to extract gases from an ice core. The cleanest one, sublimation, is getting easier.

A research vessel in the Arctic at sunset
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The Influence of Tidal Forces Extends to the Arctic’s Deep Sea

by Jackie Rocheleau 21 January 202119 October 2021

The Moon’s gravitational pull creates the tides, but its influence extends hundreds of meters below the sea surface too, influencing sensitive methane seeps in the seabed.

Satellite image of the Bering Strait
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Overturning in the Pacific May Have Enabled a “Standstill” in Beringia

Bas den Hond, Science Writer by Bas den Hond 21 January 20212 September 2022

During the last glacial period, a vanished ocean current may have made the land bridge between Asia and the Americas into a place where humans could wait out the ice.

Living walls line Milan’s Bosco Verticale apartment building
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Cómo convertir nuestras ciudades en Treetopias

by Alan Simson 15 January 20216 September 2022

Estamos y seguiremos plantando más árboles callejeros, arboledas urbanas y cúmulos informales de árboles en nuestros parques y espacios verdes. La Treetopia ha comenzado.

Scientists excavate the remains of a Taíno house at Los Buchillones, Cuba.
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Taíno Stilt Houses May Have Been an Adaptation to Climate Change

Lakshmi Supriya, Science Writer by L. Supriya 15 January 202126 October 2022

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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A Culinary Silver Lining of Climate Change: More Truffles

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 13 January 202120 October 2021

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

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

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 13 January 20216 June 2022

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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