New metrics indicate habitat fragmentation has increased in over half the world's forests over the last 20 years
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Thu 2:10pm By NULLUnder the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), a sediment core…AI-powered tool reconstructs missing data to predict coastal oceans' health
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Thu 11:34am By NULLWhile Sandra Geiger was at a conference as a doctoral student, the keynote speaker asked the…Protecting Indigenous Amazon territories can benefit human health
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Thu 10:41am By NULLNASA satellite data and trainings helped Uruguay create a drought-response tool that its National…Climate change responsible for 1,700 heat-related deaths in a single European region, study finds
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