Category: science
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Nations put science before fishing in the Arctic
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SCIENCE — Nine nations and the European Union have reached a deal to place the central Arctic Ocean (CAO) off-limits to commercial fishers for at least the next 16 years.
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Europe’s triumphs and troubles are written in Swiss ice
NEW YORK TIMES — Pollen frozen in ice in the Alps traces Europe’s calamities, since the time Macbeth ruled Scotland.
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Global warming is threatening Alaska’s prized wedding flower
THE ATLANTIC — Business is booming for the state’s peony growers. Will climate change ruin things?
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Using technology to find hidden graves
DISCOVER MAGAZINE — Forensic anthropologist Amy Mundorff wants to make the search for the missing safer and more successful.
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Being Prepared
Nature When a key member of a team is lost, the work does not have to come to an end. When Michael Pisaric was two years into his PhD, he travelled to Watson Lake in Canada with his supervisor, Julian Szeicz, and graduate student Tammy Karst-Riddoch, to collect sediment from several lakes in Yukon and…