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...technological solution for bridging critical gaps in volcanic hazard assessment and risk mitigation. Whereas many examples of satellite-borne volcano monitoring are known since the early Eighties, we note that the exceptionally large literature available on optical (passive) remote sensing of very-high temperature features, lacks in detailed information on some...

...Technology (ETH Zurich). “A shock causes a disturbance, but a healthy and resilient soil will be able to recover, rather than deteriorate.” A diversity of fungi, bacteria, and other organisms such as nematodes, mites, termites, and earthworms live in soils and keep the soils healthy. But agricultural practices, changes in land use, climate change, and other...

...education. Torn between his love of the forest and a growing awareness of how hard life can be, Charlie's loyalties are dramatically split. But logging is not the only threat to the Peruvian Amazon. Its rivers are being poisoned by illegal gold miners who use mercury to help them extract the gold. Charlie decides to go to the source of the problem and meets Erazmo, a mine...