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The Weekend Link List – Sept. 1

Sep 1, 2017

Stay cool this weekend with the best links from the past week.

 

  • Chile’s Atacama Desert: World’s driest place in bloom after surprise rain (BBC)
  • http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41021774

 

  • Brushstrokes of beauty (Land Trust Alliance)
  • http://www.landtrustalliance.org/blog/brushstrokes-beauty

 

  • Ten fluffy reasons to share the beach (Medium)
  • https://medium.com/@USFWS/10-fluffy-reasons-to-share-the-beach-542ee6f2ad8e

 

  • 100 million year-old flowers found perfectly preserved in amber (Mother Nature Network)
  • https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/100-million-year-old-flowers-found-perfectly-preserved-amber

 

  • The Monarch “super generation” (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
  • https://www.fws.gov/midwest/news/MonarchMigrationFall17.html

 

  • Found: Ice from 2.7 million years ago (Atlas Obscura)
  • http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-ice-ever-found.amp

 

  • Mountaineers gear up to collect trash in the Grand Canyon (Sierra Club)
  • http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/green-life/mountaineers-gear-collect-trash-grand-canyon

 

  • Rare triceratops fossil discovered at construction site (National Geographic)
  • http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/triceratops-fossil-found-colorado-video-spd/

 

  • From seed to tree: how we restore forests (National Forest Foundation)
  • https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/from-seed-to-tree-how-we-restore-forests
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