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An Agricultural “Island” in the Saskatchewan River Delta

Surrounded by wetlands, Manitoba's northernmost farmland near The Pas turns from green to brown over the 2026 growing season. The post An Agricultural “Island” in the Saskatchewan River Delta appeared first on NASA Science .

An Agricultural “Island” in the Saskatchewan River Delta

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Parents’ jobs linked more strongly than education to teens’ PISA scores, study finds

Knowing what parents did for a living allowed researchers to account for over double the difference in students’ scores as knowing how much education the parents had.

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  • Fathers' jobs in tech, science linked to higher children's performance
  • Mothers' jobs in tech correlated with higher children's reading scores

‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say.

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