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For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.

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For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils.

Scientists may finally know why starlings form mesmerizing clouds

For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue to surprise them.

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