A plan to preserve wetlands without stopping development
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Jun-2026 21:15 ET (26-Jun-2026 01:15 GMT/UTC)
A study of wetlands conservation policy in Florida and California suggests a way to reduce flood damage while retaining economic gains from development. The study recommends both an offset policy and a locally varying tax on development to compensate for increased flood risk.
Published today in Nature, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center report a previously unrecognized change in how the cell’s genetic material is packaged into structures called chromosomes, that helps explain how some aggressive cancers sustain unlimited growth.
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