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Humberto Basilio

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Surviving on the Periphery of a City of Earthquakes

by Humberto Basilio 19 October 20219 May 2023

Mexico City is one of the most disaster-prone urban areas in the world. Following an earthquake, marginalized communities living on the city’s periphery are exposed to more dangers than just collapsing buildings.

Three college students in face masks talk in a classroom.
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New View of Expanding Perspectives in the Geosciences

by Humberto Basilio 26 August 202110 April 2023

Earth and environmental sciences have some of the least diverse racial and ethnic representation in academia. To face profound future challenges, the fields need to address the inequities of the past and how they inform the present.

Foto e ilustración de hojas de la era Cretácica con mordidas de insectos
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El impacto de Chicxulub cambió para siempre la biodiversidad de la selva tropical

by Humberto Basilio 10 August 202129 September 2021

Hace sesenta y seis millones de años, un asteroide reinició la mayor parte de la vida en la Tierra. Pero sin este evento catastrófico, la composición de las selvas tropicales neotropicales no sería la misma.

Photo and illustration of leaves from the Paleocene era with bites left by insects
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Chicxulub Impact Changed Tropical Rain Forest Biodiversity Forever

by Humberto Basilio 3 May 20217 February 2023

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid reset most of life on Earth. But without this catastrophic event, the composition of neotropical rain forests wouldn’t be the same.

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