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Central Panama's landscape helped an interdisciplinary team, led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute researchers, analyze how geochemically enriched material travels laterally through Earth’s mantle, similar to wind blowing at the surface. (Peter Barry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Zenger)

Central (American) Heating: Scientists Find Subterranean Volcanic Duct From Galapagos To Panama

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“Magma wind” blowing through a 900-mile underground channel brings volcanic material from the Galápagos Islands to Panama.
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PICO Kids Ambassadors and peers from Dubai at a makeathon for water scarcity solutions. (Barak Alkobi)

Kids From Jerusalem, UAE Jointly Dream Up Water Solutions

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Teen ambassadors travel to Dubai to join Emirati peers in innovation and entrepreneurship activities.�
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An unparalleled experiment at the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2 forced the rainforest under glass through a controlled drought and recovery to paint a clearer picture of how global climate change will affect Earth’s ecosystems. (Rosemary Brandt)

Scientists Test ‘Rainforest Under Glass’ For Stress Reactions To Drought

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The microbes in soil and tree roots play a role in protecting rainforests during drought, a unique study has found.
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Students discovered an extremely rare insect, Bittacus hageni, during an excursion in the Leipzig Riverside Forest, shown here, in Germany in July. (Lisa Hahn/Zenger)

Science Was Dead Wrong: Bug Declared Extinct For 130 Years Found Alive By Students

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Mosquito written off as dead was discovered by college students on a forest field trip.
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Thinning treatments reduce the risk of wildfire and provide ecological benefits to forests but also generate wood residues that are burnt or left to decay, like this burn pile of underbrush, releasing carbon dioxide. New analysis by the University of California, Berkeley, shows how giving incentives to businesses to convert residues into biofuels and engineered lumber could fund forest thinning treatments while preventing the release of carbon. (Bodie Cabiyo, Courtesy of UC Berkeley)

Market For Small Trees Could Curb Big Wildfires

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Incentivizing businesses to use wood residue as biofuel and engineered wood building products could fund efforts to save forests.
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Culex mosquitoes spread West Nile virus, which is the main mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States. (Courtesy of CDC)

Scientists Focus On Helping The World Fight Mosquito-borne Diseases

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Mosquitoes kill more than one million people a year; half the global population is at risk of malaria.�
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New research has upended the claim that there was a mass shark extinction 19 million years ago. Bull sharks, a member of the shark family that has been around for more than 400 million years, has defied all major mass extinction events. (Dominik Radler/Zenger)

Some-Fin Fishy About Those Figures: Claimed Extinction Of Ancient Sharks Never Happened, Says Study

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Bitter academic row over widely followed claim that 90 percent of sharks died off 19 million years ago.
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The unusual Cali glass from Colombia is of volcanic origin, according to the latest research. (A. Crosta/Zenger)

Magma Starter: New Proof That The Mysterious Cali Glass Really Did Come From Volcanoes

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New study says it was not caused by a meteorite strike on Earth.
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Almost all Holstein cattle in the U.S. today, which provide milk and beef products in North America and elsewhere, are descended from just two bulls. (Allison Usevage/Cornell University)

Stem-Cell Bank Could Help Preserve Disappearing Livestock Breeds

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Nearly all U.S. Holstein cattle are descended from just two bulls, both born in the 1960s.
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Researchers used DNA capture-enrichment technology developed at McMaster University to isolate and rebuild the fluctuating animal and plant communities during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition of 11,000 years ago in North America. (Julius Cstonyi)

Mammoth Discovery: Giant Tuskers And Wild Horses Roaming North America Died Out Only 5,000 Years Ago

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New permafrost studies reveal the ancient beasts survived for far longer than previously thought.
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