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But will we or won't we take the necessary actions to save our only spaceship and its precious inhabitants, whether polar bears in Alaska or Joshua trees in the California desert? J. Philip Barnes ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...