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Albania’s stunning landscapes have fueled a rise in tourism, but this growth challenges its nature, land, and biodiversity.

The country is now championing tourism that benefits local communities & the environment.

Read more: tinyurl.com/3c589r29
January 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl
Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.
January 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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saschatrippe.bsky.social
Q: How did people survive before modern science and medicine?

A: They didn't.

🧪 #Health #Medicine
Mortality in the past: every second child died
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally. How do we know about the mortality of children in the past? And what can we learn from it for our future?
ourworldindata.org
January 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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moultano.bsky.social
The "Scientific Literature" should record the actual process of science instead of just the results. See this delightful post from Terence Tao about how Emmanuel Candes and Justin Romberg discovered compressed sensing by accident, and Tao tried to prove it impossible
mathoverflow.net/posts/178210...
Revisions to Examples of unexpected mathematical images
Q&A for professional mathematicians
mathoverflow.net
April 3, 2024 at 4:19 PM