The pempek restaurants in the Plaju neighborood were full to the gills in early March. Palembang chefs pulverized mudfish caught from the Musi River into subtle variations of the historic city’s ...

which formed 6 million years ago during a sharp increase in salinity dubbed the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Gypsum deposits form quickly, making them an excellent medium for fossils—the fossils ...

The research focused on gypsum formations that developed during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a period when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. "The Messinian Salinity ...

No community has been left untouched by the toxic drug and overdose crisis. Its tragic impacts are felt among our families, friends, and neighbours. Municipalities and Indigenous communities are on ...

Fortunately, the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which occurred over 5 million years ago, left behind sedimentary gypsum rocks that are nearly identical to the gypsum found in dried-out ancient lake beds ...

As the Israeli government stalls on the Gaza ceasefire deal agreed between it and the Palestinian group Hamas, delaying progression to phase two of the agreement, protesters gathered outside of ...

Picture: Google Maps Union of discontent At the heart of the crisis is the dominance held by a single city over the Illinois state government. Illinois has a population of about 13 million.

But to identify these microbial fossils we first need to prove we can identify similar fossils in places where we know such microbes existed — such as Mediterranean gypsum formations that developed ...

They studied Mediterranean gypsum formations created during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. “The Messinian Salinity Crisis occurred when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean,” said ...

The role of ABA in plant adaptation to drought, cold, and salinity stress is well established (Zhu, 2016). Salt-induced osmotic stress triggers the expression of ABA biosynthesis genes, including ...

In response to this decline, a panel of Harvard scholars convened last week for a webinar to discuss how civil society groups can protect and promote democracy in such times of crisis. The Polity ...

The global water crisis threatens access to clean water ... sometimes maintaining low salinity (i.e., remaining fresh) as it reaches depths much greater than those of typical water wells.