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Finding Amelia Earhart’s Plane Seemed Impossible. Then Came a Startling Clue [New York Times]
Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. Now, Ballard’s crew, co-lead by Allison Fundis ’03, are trying to solve one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries. Fundis is a rising explorer Ballard hopes will eventually take his place. “I feel like Leakey handing it off to Jane Goodall,” he says.
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This Land Is the Only Land There Is [The Atlantic]
For everyone who lives on land, the planet’s dangerously warmed future is already here, according to the United Nations-led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Complex political issues and deep concerns from the world’s developing nations highlight the panel’s latest report, says College of the Atlantic global environmental politics professor Doreen Stabinsky.
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Regrowing tropical forests recover fast in tree species richness, but slow in species composition
A team of ecologists from Latin America, the United States, and Europe, including College of the Atlantic botany professor Susan Letcher, publish a study in Science Advances showing that natural forest regeneration may be the ideal way to bring nearly one billion acres of tropical forest into restoration by 2030, as set under the Bonn Challenge.
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Skeletal exhibit construction underway in Maine of humpback shale found on Cape Cod [Boston Globe]
The story of Vector, who was well-known in New England waters, isn’t over, according to College of the Atlantic Allied Whale senior scientist Dan DenDanto ’91, who will be using the remains of the 45-foot humpback whale as part of a new exhibit.
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COA senior wins prestigious Watson Fellowship
Mona Ayoub ’19 will travel the world for a year exploring the roles and stories of women and mothers, and how different societies are addressing domestic violence, following the award of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
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As seas warm, whales face new dangers [New York Times]
From the top of the six-story lighthouse, water stretches beyond the horizon in every direction. A foghorn bleats twice at 22-second intervals, interrupting the endless chatter of herring gulls. At least twice a day, researchers with College of the Atlantic’s Allied Whale climb steps and ladders and crawl through a modest glass doorway to scan the…