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As we savour chocolate this Valentine’s Day, don’t forget the existential threat cocoa trees are facing, says this geography professor.

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In the dry and windswept plains of the Adré refugee camp in eastern Chad, a grove of young neem trees stands as a testament ...

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Lead concentration rose significantly about 2,150 years ago, accompanied by intense deforestation and increasing agricultural use, as indicated by the composition of the pollen spectra.

They examined robins in Ypsilanti (EMU campus was the control site) and Flint, Michigan, and found that high blood lead levels in robins can accurately predict areas with contaminated soil. The study ...

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In a series of experiments described in Science Magazine in 2011, a trio of researchers found evidence to support a sneaking suspicion bubbling up in the minds of many Google aficionados: Frequent ...