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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌡️🌋 #Yellowstone spans roughly 24 km (15 mi) of #boardwalks around its scalding #hydrothermal features, all built by hand.

    Park geologists use thermal #cameras to map the hottest zones and route around them, while botanists flag rare #plants and archaeologists check for buried #artifacts before any path is laid. The process keeps millions of visitors safe without disturbing the area’s fragile #ecosystem or #history.

    👉 popsci.com/environment/yellows

    #geyser #nationalpark #engineering #science #geology #conservation #nature #architecture #wildlife #outdoors

  2. Giant deep-sea tubeworm #symbionts use 2 carbon fixation pathways to grow at record speeds
    phys.org/news/2024-06-giant-de

    Jessica Mitchell et al.: Co-expression analysis reveals distinct alliances around two carbon fixation pathways in #hydrothermal vent symbionts nature.com/articles/s41564-024

    "#CarbonFixation is the process of converting #CarbonDioxide to sugars - the primary process that keeps our #biosphere running... In the #DeepSea, #Riftia's symbionts use energy from hydrogen sulfide to fix #carbon."