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Artisanal Portuguese salinas: remembering the past, building the future
For centuries, salt detained a preponderant role in worldwide economy and had a great influence on the culture of those connected with it. Portugal’s great geographic and climatic conditions, as well...
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Tourism in salinas as a source of development and sustainability
This is a follow-up to a previous blog post, Artisanal Portuguese salinas: remembering the past, building the future. Beautiful flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) feeding in the ponds of a salina in...
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Microorganisms and salt, a conference in Storrs, CT
Guest blog post by Bonnie Baxter and R. Thane Papke Halophiles 2013: The International Congress on Halophilic Microorganisms is a multidisciplinary international conference, with a strong history of...
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Dried up! The effects of 2014 on Western US Lake Ecosystems
Dr. Ron Larson is a retired fish and wildlife biologist and photographer based in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and a co-author of the “Common Plants of the Upper Klamath Basin” field guide. Here, Ron writes...
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