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Discover how coastal cities are harnessing osmotic power to meet energy demands by mixing river water with seawater. Each ...

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Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

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Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future is a Monash-led research and workforce development program, funded by the Australian Research Council. SAEF is delivering leading Antarctic and Southern ...

The first thing to know about the Great Barrier Reef is that it’s utterly enormous. It covers about 133,000 square miles, ...

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Writer, naturalist, whale watcher, and longtime Orion contributor Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of several books of ...