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    The Role of Indigenous Resurgence in Marine Conservation

    Indigenous peoples’ efforts toward environmental conservation are indivisible from their cultural identity and their social and political organizations. Indigenous resurgence,...
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    Amazonian tropical rainforest is being converted to other land cover types including crops and pasture. In deforested areas, secondary forest grows after pastures are abandoned,...
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    Carbon stock assessment of date palm using remote sensing coupled with field-...

    This study aims at developing a remote sensing based model to estimate carbon stock (CS) in date palm plantations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Data from Landsat 8 OLI were...
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    The impact of deforestation on the hydrological cycle in Amazonia as observed...

    Given widespread Amazonian deforestation, numerous studies have focused on how the regional hydrological cycle – in terms of precipitation (P) recycling from evapotranspiration...
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    A university geology department partnered with a STEM-focused high school to introduce project-based learning-centered geoscience content at the ninth-grade level. We...
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    Adaptation Pathways in Coastal Case Studies: Lessons Learned and Future Direc...

    Climate change adaptation presents a difficult challenge for coastal towns around the world, forcing local governments to plan for sea level rise in a contentious...
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    Effective Public Participation is Fundamental for Marine Conservation—Lessons...

    The Representative Areas Program (RAP) was, at the time, the most comprehensive process of community involvement and participatory planning for any environmental issue in...
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    Connecting chemistry concepts with environmental context using student-built ...

    Educational research supports incorporating active engagement into K-12 education using authentic STEM experiences. While there are discipline-specific resources to provide...
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    Stratigraphic and igneous relationships west of Yass, eastern Lachlan Orogen,...

    Volcanic rocks are widespread in middle Silurian to Lower Devonian rocks of the Lachlan Orogen in southeastern Australia. In the Yass–Canberra region, the Silurian succession...
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    Digital thermal monitoring of the Amazon forest: an intercomparison of satell...

    Remote sensing and climate digital products have become increasingly available in recent years. Access to these products has favored a variety of Digital Earth studies, such as...
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    Shaping the Coast with Permits: Making the State Regulatory Permitting Proces...

    This paper examines the California Coastal Commission's permitting process. Using several text mining techniques, including web scraping, information extraction, and supervised...
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    Mineralogical characteristics of continental shale: a case study in Yan-Chang...

    The Chang 7 Member of the Yan-Chang Formation (Yan-Chang #7 Member), which is located in the central south of the Ordos Basin (China), is assessed for its potential as a shale...
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    Soil erosion susceptibility mapping for current and 2100 climate conditions u...

    Soil erosion is a global geological hazard which can be mitigated through better future land-use planning. In the current research, a Dempster-Shafer-based evidential belief...
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    Re-appraisal of published nitrogen aggregation results in diamonds from Copet...

    Re-appraisal of published nitrogen aggregation results in diamonds from Copeton, New South Wales
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    Effect of fading scaffolds on the mastery of scientific abilities in inquiry-...

    Inquiry-based instruction facilitates students’ acquisition of scientific abilities, but little is known about how rapidly college students master these skills, particularly...
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    The Basilicata region (Southern Italy): a natural and ‘human-built’ open-air ...

    The Basilicata region (Southern Italy) is characterized by a peculiar environmental as well as biological, geological, and cultural heritage features that are evident in...
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    Depositional environment, hydrocarbon generation and expulsion potential of t...

    As the most important source rocks in the eastern Junggar Basin, the middle Permian Pingdiquan (P2p) source rocks have attracted increasing attention after the discovery of...
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    Operationalizing Blue Carbon in the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Resear...

    Recently, greater interest in the resilience of coastal habitat ecosystem services in the northern Gulf of Mexico has emerged due in part to an expansion of mangroves into areas...
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    Looking in the Right Places: Minority-Serving Institutions as Sources of Dive...

    Despite gains over the last decade, the geoscience student population in the United States today continues to lag other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
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    Key beliefs and attitudes for sea-level rise policy

    This article reviews key measures of public opinion on sea-level rise (SLR): beliefs, attitudes, issue prioritization, and policy support. To do so, we first assess the...