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In Missouri, nearly two centuries ago, the Jesuits forcibly moved six enslaved Black people to the St. Louis area to help build their forthcoming institutions. That same year, they also laid the groundwork for a “plan for “the civilization of the Indian,”a practice that separated families and stripped young Native Americans of their culture through assimilation.
University of Amsterdam A group of international scientists, including UvA professor Judy Shamoun-Baranes, warns that changes to European meteorological data policies threaten biodiversity monitoring as they make vital data unavailable. In a letter published in Science on 16 April, they point out that policies in Europe should be adjusted to take into account the broad role that weather radars play beyond meteorology. Migrating bramblings. Weather radars are not only used to measure weather, they can also detect animals in the sky, such as these small passerine birds. Picture: Nadja Weisshaup...