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At this vital stage in the 2024 campaign, the path to the presidency for Kamala Harris runs through places like Dottie’s Market, a trendy Savannah spot with baked goods, luxury food items, and braided sweetgrass baskets for sale.  On a late-August bus tour to connect with voters, the vice president spoke to a rally of

What would happen if humans dried out the Mediterranean sea, turning it into a giant salt lake? Would its wildlife survive, and if so, how long would it take to recover? These may seem like wildly theoretical questions, but not for Herman Sörgel, a Bavarian architect who dedicated much of his life to this exact

Credit: Ella Ragasa from Pexels Located to the east of Madagascar, the bountiful, volcanic French island of Réunion has sometimes been called a sister to Hawaiian volcanoes because of the similarity in their climate and geographical nature. Those familiar with its seemingly pristine vegetation may be surprised to find out that half of the plants

by Alison Derry, Annabelle Fortin-Archambault and Beatrix Beisner, The Conversation A researcher from Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie sampling zooplankton from an Alaskan lake. Credit: A. Derry, CC BY Freshwater ecosystems are impacted by human activities, including climate change, pollution and invasive species. We are researchers at the Université du Québec à Montréal and

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and ESA’s Solar Orbiter missions measuring the same stream of plasma flowing away from the sun at different distances. Parker measured copious magnetic waves near the edge of the corona (the “Alfvén surface”), while Solar Orbiter, located past the orbit of Venus, observed that the waves had disappeared and that their