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Researchers evaluate strategies to protect Venice from rising sea levels
A new paper compares strategies, including movable barriers, ring dikes, closing the Venetian Lagoon, and relocating the city, that could help Venice adapt to future sea-level rise.
Can Indonesia make the switch to electric motorcycles?
A new paper by Dr Ferry Fathoni, Professor Kang Li, and Professor Jon Lovett explores the economics of battery refurbishment and recycling for electric motorcycles in Indonesia.
Coastal Women Caring for (Mother) Earth and Sea Festival
More than 150 people gathered in the sunken village of Timbulsloko, Indonesia, for the Festival “Perempuan Pesisir Merawat (Ibu) Bumi dan Laut” or “Coastal Women Caring for (Mother) Earth and Sea”.
How primitive plants evolved to survive Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event
Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a group of primitive plants to survive.
Twenty-year plan to restore nature and support fell farming
Work to restore heathland, meadows, woodland, peatlands and rivers in the uplands of South Cumbria has begun in earnest thanks to a new project supported by Defra’s Landscape Recovery Scheme.