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3 min readApr 19, 2024

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Of Seeds, Evolution, and Making a Difference

From the seeds my parents planted, and inspired by plant evolution, I’ve grown to live my passions and thrive beyond their wildest dreams

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A hand planting seeds

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If El Niño Wasn’t Responsible For East African Floods, What Was Then?

New study reveals El Niño not responsible for East African floods — climate change made them twice as likely and 5% more intense

7 min readMay 25, 2024

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Children in a flooded village

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The New Climate.

Will I Get To Visit Antarctica Before It Collapses?

Recent record-low sea ice levels remind us of climate change’s stark reality and the urgent need for action to protect our planet.

7 min readMay 22, 2024

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two people walking in the ice

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The New Climate.

Amazon Wildfires Pushing Toward Global Ecological Catastrophe

We need urgent, global action to strengthen firefighting, enforce laws, support sustainable land use — and water.

5 min readMay 16, 2024

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A forest fire in the Amazon.

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The Puzzle Of Putting a Dinosaur Together

In the field of paleontology, initial misconceptions based on limited knowledge have been corrected with new discoveries.

4 min readMay 9, 2024

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The New Climate.

Is A Healthier Diet Also Better For The Planet?

Aligning food supply with dietary recommendations could promote better health outcomes and significantly reduce environmental damage.

4 min readMay 8, 2024

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Is A Healthier Diet Also Better For The Planet?

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Fossilized Human Testicles Or A Dinosaur Bone?

A little story of how the first dinosaur ever described was almost named after human genitalia.

5 min readMay 2, 2024

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The distal part of a left femur of Megalosaurus from Cornwell, U.K., in posterior view, and first reported by Plot (1677); A, illustrations by Plot (1677, table 8, fig.4); and B, Brookes (1763, p. 312, figure 317) showing the label ‘Scrotum Humanum’. C) Isolated theropod tooth (likely Megalosaurus) from the Stonesfield, U.K., illustrated by Lhuyd (1699, plate 16, figure 1328).

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Can We Engineer the Oceans to Help Battle Climate Change?

As the planet continues to warm, scientists are developing new tech to enhance the oceans' natural capacities for carbon sequestration.

8 min readMay 1, 2024

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A wave in the ocean

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