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New food technologies could return 80% of the world's agricultural land to nature

New food technologies could return 80% of the world’s agricultural land to nature

Here is the basic problem for global conservation: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for the same land. As humans demand more food, more forests and other natural ecosystems are cleared, and farms intensify and become less hospitable to many wild animals and plants. Therefore, global conservation, currently focused on the …

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Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft on track for return to Earth after Moon flyby

Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft on track for return to Earth after Moon flyby

For NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the next stop is home. The uncrewed spacecraft flying on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission achieved a major milestone in its mission today (December 5) when it managed to burn out the engine in 207 seconds while in just 128 kilometers above the lunar surface. The maneuver put Orion on track to …

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High-flying recovery: the inspiring return of the California condor

DDespite being the largest flying bird in North America, with a wingspan of up to three meters, you would have been hard-pressed to see a California condor in the wild in the 1980s. effort to save the birds, after decades of persecution and population collapse, the few survivors were captured in 1987 for an intensive …

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