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Pockets of landscape less prone than adjacent areas to disturbances like fire and drought may hold the key for scientists, conservationists and land managers seeking to preserve vulnerable species in a changing climate.

The East African Rift System (EARS) is a newly forming plate tectonic boundary at which the African continent is being separated into several plates. This is not a clean break. The system includes several rift arms and one or more smaller so-called microplates. According to GPS data, the Victoria microplate is moving in a counterclockwise rotation relative to Africa in contrast to the other plates involved.

Producing fewer sperm cells can be advantageous in self-fertilizing plants. 

Each spring, the Canadian Arctic is the site of a fierce battle between water and ice.

Vaccines are notoriously difficult to transport to remote or dangerous places, as they spoil when not refrigerated.