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Asian rubies come always with marble and salt

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December

Ruby deposits are the primary gem source in Central and South-East Asia.

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Nutrient-poor oceans generate their food "hot spots"

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December

Half of the southern Pacific Ocean is an immense reservoir of warm subtropical water, yet poor in nutrients and little conducive for the development of living organisms.

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Vanuatu: the coral reef, record of a 23 000 year history

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October

A research team from the IRD "Tropical Palaeo-environments and climatic variability" research unit and their American co-workers (1) have succeeded in retracing over a 23 000 year period the history of a coral reef of the Island of Urelapa, in Vanuatu.

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Collective economy: a means for reducing inequality between men and women ?

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October

By its very nature and practices, economics is devoted essentially to the market evaluation of goods and wealth and deliberately takes a standpoint outside the domain of intra-family and social relations.

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Amazon Basin sediment accumulation influenced by La Niña

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October

Enormous quantities of sediment are deposited in the flood-plains traversed by the Amazon and its tributaries in times of flooding.

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