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How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

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Maukish & sweet with little flavor,” he noted in his journal from Santiago, the main island in the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of West Africa. Cape Verde, then a Portuguese colony, gave Darwin his first taste of his own scientific talent. β€œHe I know every road of Cape Verde,” Mr. Rodrigues assured me.

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U Alberta study shows for the first time that sunlight causes chemical reactions in road dust; singlet oxygen

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— In the study, the team study, investigated the photochemical production of 1 O 2 by size-fractionated road dust collected in Edmonton, Alberta and compared the reactivity of this substrate to that of Arizona test dust, Niger sand, and Cape Verde dust.

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

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Signatories by category: Governments: Austria; Azerbaijan; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; El Salvador; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Slovenia; Sweden; United Kingdom. —COP 26 Declaration.