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What can our genetic cousins teach us?

Fruit fly research seeks to unlock the mysteries of disease You might call it the noble — or Nobel — fruit fly. In 1933, Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize for uncovering the role that chromosomes play in heredity. His discovery arose from his experiments with Drosophila melanogaster in “The Fly Room,” his Columbia […]

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‘The more people come together, the more change can happen’

In a time of threats against human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, a Clark University professor has teamed up with colleagues to launch Community Organizing Journal, featuring peer-reviewed articles and reflective essays by academics and practitioners from around the world.

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Connecting sunlight and forests to curbing climate change 

The climate benefits of some carbon projects may be overestimated because they don’t account for changes in albedo — the percentage of sunlight that a forest reflects or absorbs, making it cooler or hotter — in their calculations, according to Geography Professor Christopher Williams and his peers.

In addition to contributing to the study published in Communications Earth & Environment, Florencia Sangermano, left, partnered with members of an Indigenous community on environmental research in the Amazon as part of the XPRIZE Rainforest competition.

Protecting Amazon’s Indigenous lands can improve human health, study finds

Indigenous Territories in the Amazon rainforest can help buffer and protect humans from diseases, according to a recent study.

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