Mahmudia became a wasteland under dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist agricultural policy. But villagers fought to resurrect their home and reconnect with the wilderness.
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This hardy desert plant lives in the hostile Atacama Desert in Chile by sucking moisture out of passing fog. As water resources become ever more scarce, humans could follow suit.
The ocean moderates climate change by absorbing CO₂ emissions, hosts valuable biodiversity and provides food to millions, but all of these services are threatened by pollution and human activities.
The UN’s Ocean Decade demands collaborative action across disciplines, nations, communities, and generations, and its success relies on diverse voices that represent current and future ocean leaders.
Biosphere reserves are the living labs in which people and nature learn how to live and thrive together. Four pilot sites in Africa show the programme’s promise.
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Adjunct Professor, University of Canberra
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Professor of Archaeology, Linnaeus University
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Associate professor, Archaeology and Heritage, La Trobe University
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Professor of Heritage, University of Kent
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Coordinator of the CEBioS programme at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI) Consortium, Memorial University, Canada, and Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania
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Programme director IMR Global Development, Institute of Marine Research, professor, University of Bergen
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Director: GenderInSITE, Unesco
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PhD student in Environmental Science, Scientific Researcher at the National Institute for Research & Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies Cluj-Napoca, Babes Bolyai University
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