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Category: Environmental & Earth Sciences

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By Akaash SeemakurtyPosted on

Habitable Exoplanets: A Possible Escape Route?

Over 4000 unique exoplanets – planets that orbit a star outside our solar system – have been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, but the majority are not suitable for sustaining human life.

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By Wesley DongPosted on

What impact does climate change have on the California fires?

With the increasing number and frequency of these natural calamities, we’re faced with two critical questions: how does climate change impact these catastrophes and how much of that impact is driven by humans?

  • Environmental & Earth Sciences
By Calla ReedPosted on

Climate Change, Zoonosis, and Epidemic outbreaks: Disease Outbreaks as the New Normal

Zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that exist naturally in an animal population and mutate to become viable in the human population upon close contact, have been the cause of history’s most impactful pandemics.

  • Environmental & Earth Sciences
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