Cara Giaimo

United States

Writer and Researcher at Freelance

writer about animals, plants & (sometimes) people / @atlasobscura Wild Life book out now! / guitar &c @sidebody_

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Los humanos llevan 7500 años perfeccionando los aguacates

1 month ago | elespectador.com | Cara Giaimo

Se produce en 16 de los 32 departamentos y en más de 230 municipios de Colombia. Audio generado con IA de GoogleHemos trabajado mucho tiempo para que sean así.
Los humanos llevamos 7500 años perfeccionando los aguacates

1 month ago | infobae.com | Cara Giaimo

AvocadosArchaeology and AnthropologyForests and ForestryAgriculture and FarmingResearchHondurasLatin AmericaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesyour-feed-scienceLos antiguos pueblos de América Latina salvaron de la extinción a estos frutos, que los habitantes de lo que hoy llamamos Honduras incluyeron en su dieta hace al menos 10.000 años, y los mejoraron intencionadamente.
Humans Have Been Perfecting Avocados for 7,500 Years

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Cara Giaimo

Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way.
Lightning-on-Demand Could Create the Green Fertilizer We've Been Waiting For

Jan 13, 2025 | sierraclub.org | Cara Giaimo |Maria Hoey

To feed a global human population of 8 billion and counting, we need more nitrogen than is naturally available in soil. Industrial agriculture relies on the Haber-Bosch process, which uses high pressure and temperatures to create nitrogen fertilizer in the form of ammonia. But the process is responsible for as much as 3 percent of global emissions. Most result from the field application of ammonia fertilizer, which releases nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide.
How Many Female Turtles Is Too Many?

Nov 11, 2024 | nautil.us | Cara Giaimo

Ascension Island is a volcanic land mass in the Atlantic Ocean. Located midway between Africa and South America, its edge stitched with sandy beaches, it’s a popular nesting site for green turtles, who haul themselves up by the tens of thousands each year to dig holes and lay their eggs. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now .
Mergulhadores visitam destroços de navio do século XIX em busca de centeio para fazer uísque

Nov 8, 2024 | estadao.com.br | Cara Giaimo

Os destroços do naufrágio do James R. Bentley, uma escuna de cerca de 52 metros de comprimento, estão, desde 1878, 50 metros abaixo da superfície do lago Huron, que fica entre os Estados Unidos e o Canadá. Dentro de seu porão havia um tesouro improvável. A busca para recuperar o valioso esconderijo armazenado no Bentley reuniu uma equipe de resgate em uma manhã ensolarada de setembro.
Portland Book Festival: Environmental concerns loom large in appearances by Richard Powers, Cara Giaimo, Julie Beeler, and an owl named Hans

Nov 4, 2024 | orartswatch.org | Amanda Waldroupe |Cara Giaimo

The natural world, the environment, and the future of the planet were a main theme of multiple author talks at this year’ s Portland Book Festival, which took place Saturday along the South Park Blocks. Hans, a Eurasian eagle-owl, stole the show in the morning’s first presentation in the Winningstad Theatre, “Atlas Obscura: Wild Life.” Hans was introduced to the audience by Sidney Campbell, a bird handler and trainer with Cascades Raptor Center.
Diving to Drink a 19th-Century Shipwreck's Treasure

Nov 1, 2024 | nytimes.com | Cara Giaimo

The wreck of the James R. Bentley, a 170-foot-long schooner, has sat 165 feet beneath the surface of Lake Huron since 1878. Within its hold was an unlikely treasure. The quest to retrieve the prized cache stored in the Bentley brought together a rescue team on a sunny September morning. If their dive was successful, the group would be bringing up not gold, jewels or other archetypal shipwreck loot. Instead, it was aiming to retrieve a few scoops of 145-year-old rye seeds.
Portland Book Festival: Atlas Obscura’s Cara Giaimo on wonder and awe for the world’s species

Nov 1, 2024 | orartswatch.org | Amanda Waldroupe |Cara Giaimo

Did you know that palm cockatoos will bang drums against hollow trees as they build their nests, a type of drumming that can be heard up to 100 yards away? Or that a species of nettle found inside limestone caves in China can survive on less than one percent of full daylight? Or that a type of moss grows in the Himalayas due to a type of fungi that grows on it?
Riot Roundup: The Best Books We Read July-September 2024

Oct 9, 2024 | bookriot.com | Cara Giaimo |Joshua Foer |Alison Doherty

It’s somehow already time for another edition of Riot Roundup, where we ask Book Riot staff and contributors to tell us about the best books they read over the last quarter then share those with our readers. We’re not just talking new books here: Riot Roundup includes frontlist, backlist, upcoming releases, and spans many genres and age ranges. We just want to know what books our people read and loved, period. As always, we read some pretty great books.