Tag: sciengage
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Meet the Tiny Desert Slime that Holds our Topsoil Together. For Now.
Read more: Meet the Tiny Desert Slime that Holds our Topsoil Together. For Now.If your eyes were microscopes and you had really good sunblock, you could lie down in the Arizona Desert and watch tiny microbes build colonies of millions around you. These greeblies, called cyanobacteria, colonize the very top layer of soil and need little more than sunshine to survive. In their wake, they leave a trail…
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Rewilding: On the trail of Yellowstone’s wolves
Read more: Rewilding: On the trail of Yellowstone’s wolvesI had hoped, but didn’t expect, to see wolves in Yellowstone. Ever since I was a young lass, they held a certain fascination for me. There is a dangerous grace; a beauty even, about wolves – something fundamentally wild. So on my first trip to the US two years ago, I stumped up the cash…
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What if We Make Climate Change a Game?
Read more: What if We Make Climate Change a Game?We are realizing the potential of gaming to teach ourselves and our children about the urgent challenges of climate change and environmental crisis.
