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Environment
Right Circle: European cities and regions lead the green transition
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a landscape filled with clear blue lakes and deep green forests, it is an old red brick building that tells the story of Tampere’s industrial heritage. The former factory, which once housed the production of machinery and linen, controls the architecture of this Finland region. The roaring of industrial machinery has long faded, but as…
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Earth
Scientists reveal the evolutionary history of regions of the deep mantle continent size
Visualization of the seismic model S40RTS (Ritsema et al., 2011) showing African LLVPs (big red regions) created using Gplates software (Ritsema et al., 2011). Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. New research reveals that two continent-sized regions of the Earth’s deep mantle have distinctive history and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the general assumption that they are the same. The…
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Earth
Charcoal stored in preserved guano helps recreate region’s fire history
A view from below of a swarm of bats hanging from the ceiling of a rocky cave. One of them is yawning with its mouth wide open. Credit: R. Andrew King/USFWS, Public Domain As wildfires increase in frequency and intensity in many parts of the world, scientists are looking to the past to better understand when and where fires occurred.…
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