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Farming on permafrost

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By understanding how landforms form on Earth, we can learn how they form on Mars, and this is a sub-field of permafrost geomorphology.” Pathway from school to northern high latitude research • Permafrost science is a branch of Earth science that requires knowledge of geology, glaciology, geomorphology and climatology. •

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. Why is citizen science important?

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Deducing how Antarctica will respond to climate change

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Even though past climate events are not exactly the same as today’s situation, we can still learn a lot by studying how Earth systems responded to change in the past,” says Dr Brian Romans from Virginia Tech. This is true not just for human history, but also geological history.

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