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HotSpots H2O: ‘We Have Nowhere Left To Go’: Durban’s Affordability Crisis Pushed Development into Flood Zones

Circle of Blue

Homes in high-risk flood zones are the only affordable option for Durban’s poorest residents. The rain in Durban was just starting to ease when Catherine Sutherland, an urban geographer at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, decided to return home. In total, over 4,000 homes were destroyed. Photo © Catherine Sutherland.

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Cerebrum review: An enigmatic slice of sci-fi horror

New Scientist

William returns home to recover after a terrible car accident leaves his world in pieces. Great performances and a chilling script make for an intriguing debut, says Simon Ings

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Beaver Fever | WILD HOPE

PBS Nature

The surprise return of beavers to the British countryside brings benefits and controversy for humans and wildlife alike. Can the British beavers regain their former glory as powerful ecosystem engineers, or is their new home too domesticated to return to the wild? The post Beaver Fever | WILD HOPE appeared first on Nature.

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What’s Up With Water – January 10, 2023

Circle of Blue

Water shortages, weather disasters, and climate instability are uprooting people from their homes. According to the Associate Press, about half of the affected people left home due to hurricanes. Or it could mean living in a temporary trailer because your home was damaged. Most people were able to return home within a week.

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Homeownership Revisited: An Economist's Perspective

Environmental and Urban Economics

As an urban economist, I want to contrast the private benefits to an adult of owning a home and the local social benefits conveyed to a community when it consists of home owners. Portfolio Risk from Home Ownership Let’s start with a personal example. The cash we invested in the home had a next best alternative.

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Indigenous Groups Are Key to Reversing Amazon Destruction

Scientific American

As world leaders return home from COP 27 and prepare for other meetings they must listen to native peoples and the plans they bring to the table to quell extraction from the Amazon.

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Slightly lost bumblebees use scent to find their way home

Frontiers

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Researchers have shown that returning foragers of buff-tailed bumblebees use their own passively laid out scent marks, as well as visual information from landmarks, to find their way back to the nest entrance. Tricking the bumblebees Eckel et al.

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