Blue, mysterious and arriving by the millions: the alien-like creatures blanketing US beaches

From Oregon to California, blankets of alien-like blue creatures are washing up on rocky beaches. They are Velella velella, tiny colonies of organisms with a…

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How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants

When enslaved Africans escaped the Surinamese plantations overseen by Dutch colonists from the 17th to the 19th century, several women ingeniously hid rice grains in…

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Optimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate priorities

What a difference a year makes in the Brazilian Amazon. At the start of 2023, I wrote about the green shoots of the rainy season…

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