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Can consumers save the planet by just buying green? | University of Helsinki

Awareness-raising for consumers and eco-labels for products are important, but they are not enough.

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Irja Askola: "We talk a great deal about foreign people but not enough with them" | University of Helsinki

Science provides a means to navigate towards justice and mercy. Science is good for you. It increases understanding, says Bishop Emerita Irja Askola.

“It comes so easily to us to speak about other people and groups of people while not talking to them. Only through contact can we see the people behind the labels.”

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How Can We Untangle White Supremacy From Medieval Studies?

A conversation with Australian scholar Helen Young.

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Mutinus sp. (?)

9/16 at Flambeau River State Forest, Wisconsin

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In a decade, all plant viruses will be easy and quick to identify | University of Helsinki

Thanks to novel techniques, identifying plant viruses is no longer based on guessing the identity of the virus and choosing the methods of identification accordingly.

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Development of catalysts that can run on sunlight receives 700.000 Euro backing from Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation | University of Helsinki

Professor Pedro Camargo got grant of 700.000 Euros for a research project developing a new kind of catalysts from The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation

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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER in arctic community ecology | University of Helsinki

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DOCTORAL STUDENT in arctic community ecology | University of Helsinki

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Research Scientist, Helsinki, 24.6.2019

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A Europe-wide phenomenon: Harnessing family values to oppose gay rights | University of Helsinki

European organisations campaigning against equal rights for sexual minorities and promoting the traditional nuclear family have many similarities.

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Baby Sea Turtles Spotted on Mumbai Beach for the First Time in 20 Years 

Late last week, officials in Mumbai, India, announced that for the first time in 20 years sea turtles have successfully nested on one of the city’s beaches, reports Agence France-Presse. Witnesses say roughly 80 tiny olive ridley sea turtles climbed out of their nest on Versova Beach and begin stumbling toward the sea.

The nesting comes after three years of cleanup on the highly polluted beach by a group of volunteers led by lawyer and environmental activist Afroz Shah. Shah tells Darryl D’Monte at Mongabay that the mother turtle was seen laying her eggs in the area two months ago. The cleanup group and fenugreek growers on the beach then kept watch. At 9 A.M. local time last Thursday, a volunteer witnessed the turtles hatching. Shah and his group visited the site and protected the turtles as they headed for the water. They kept the hatch secret until afterwards to keep the tiny reptiles safe.

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These Scientists Have a Wild Plan to Throw Salt into the Atmosphere. Here's Why.

A group of scientists is proposing that kitchen table salt be used to help slow climate change through a rather unusual technique.

“It’s an interesting idea,” Michael Mann, a distinguished professor of meteorology at Penn State, told Live Science. But “most of these [geoengineering] schemes,though potentially appealing at the surface, are seen to be fraught with potential unintended consequences when you look at them in more detail.”

Source: Space.com

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Coral fungus - 9/17 at Hemlock Bluffs, North Carolina

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Key messages The essence of gender-responsive Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) is ensuring that women and men at all levels have

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The oldest fossil mushroom

A new fossil mushroom is described and illustrated from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of northeast Brazil. Gondwanagaricites magnificus gen. et sp. nov. is remarkable for its exceptional preservation as a mineralized replacement in laminated limestone, as all other fossil mushrooms are known from amber inclusions. Gondwanagaricites represents the oldest fossil mushroom to date and the first fossil mushroom from Gondwana.