A new study shows that plant materials originating in Arctic sea ice are significantly incorporated into marine food webs that are used for subsistence in local communities of the greater Bering Strait region.
Environment
Apr 22, 2020
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Since the 1980s, a sprawling mountaintop removal mining complex in southern West Virginia has been leaching pollutants—such as selenium—into nearby streams at levels deemed unsafe for aquatic life.
Environment
Apr 7, 2020
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Global climate change will affect fish sizes in unpredictable ways and, consequently, impact complex food webs in our oceans, a new IMAS-led study has shown.
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2020
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Atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped scientists for the first time correctly determine the age of whale sharks.
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2020
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In a sampling of fish from a creek that flows into San Diego Bay, nearly a quarter contain microplastics, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE. The study, which examined plastics in coastal sediments ...
Ecology
Mar 18, 2020
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Researchers from the AMOLF institute in Amsterdam and Harvard have shown that the ability of organisms to move around plays a role in stabilizing ecosystems. In their paper published 19 February 2020 in Nature, they describe ...
Evolution
Feb 19, 2020
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SpaceX will get $80.4 million from NASA to launch the agency's 2022 Earth science mission, known as PACE.
Space Exploration
Feb 7, 2020
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Mosquitoes. Hordes of them, buzzing in your ear and biting incessantly, a maddening nuisance without equal. And not to mention the devastating health impacts caused by malaria, Zika virus and other pathogens they spread.
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2019
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The ratio of carbon isotopes in three common species of tuna has changed substantially since 2000, suggesting major shifts are taking place in phytoplankton populations that form the base of the ocean's food web, a new international ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2019
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Smaller fish and invertebrates such as gazami crab and Japanese sardinella, are replacing larger, more commercially valuable fish such as largehead hairtail in the Bohai Sea in northeastern China.
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2019
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