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Horizons highlights paleoscience topics of interest for the next generation, written in an easy to understand, visual format. It is a scientific review of why studying the past is important, mainly aimed at older high-school students and undergraduate students interested in environmental issues and global change. It promotes the use of comics, pictures, and drawings that support short papers with strong messages about past sciences and how to prepare for a changing future.
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Press Releases
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Individual Articles
> Front Cover (Illustration by Jérémie Moreau)
> Table of Contents
Editorial
> Editorial: Has changed, is changing, will change: Our home the Earth [p.3]
Boris Vannière, Graciela Gil-Romera and Sarah Eggleston
Open Highlights
> Paleoscience and the UN Sustainable Development Goals [p.4-5]
Keely Mills and Matthew Jones
> Can we tell how climate will change in the future? [p.6-8]
Frank Oldfield
> How green were the oceans in the past? [p.9-11]
Iván Hernández-Almeida and Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero
> From the depths of the Amundsen Sea [p.12-15]
Margot Courtillat
> Why sea level is not level [p.16-19]
Juliet Sefton and Fangyi Tan
> A message from the buried past: Deciphering the location of ancient settlements [p.20-22]
Hadar Elyashiv
> The stone readers [p.23-27]
Jérémie Moreau and Boris Vannière
> Young scientists speak about global change sciences [p.28-29]
Stella Alexandroff, Alicja Bonk and Tamara Trofimova
> The South Pacific and climate change [p.30-33]
Silvia Frisia, Nicole Pierce and Pauline Treble
> Linking lead pollution in ice cores to ancient history [p.34-35]
Nathan Chellman and Joe McConnell
> Lake mud detectives [p.36-37]
Laura Hunt, Angela Nankabirwa and Tessa Driessen
> Pollen reveals the plant world of the past [p.38-40]
Andrea Miebach
> How to record fires that burned thousands of years ago [p.41-43]
Emma Rehn
> Humans and environments in the most arid place of the world [p.44-48]
María Eugenia de Porras, Eugenia M. Gayó, Mauricio Uribe and Antonio Maldonado
> Past farmers and the environment [p.49-51]
Jerry Olatoyan
> Paleovirology [p.52-53]
Marco Palombelli and Peter Gitau
> Glossary [p.54-55]
Robyn Granger and Graciela Gil-Romera
> Meet the authors and illustrators [p.56-57]
> Resources, references and acknowledgments [p.58-59]
> Paleotherapy [p.60]
Peb & Fox and Boris Vannière
Media mentions
> WCRP home page, 13 April 2021
> Future Earth home page, 13 April 2021
> thedebrief.org, 14 April 2021
> Interview (in Spanish) on Ebro FM radio with editor Graciela Gil-Romera, 6 May 2021.