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Plants & Animals May 23, 2024

Constantly on the hunt for food: Harbor porpoises more vulnerable than previously thought to disturbances from humans

Summer is coming and that means more boats in the sea. Danish coastal waters are especially cluttered with small boats in the summertime: Locals water skiing, going fishing or just riding around the beautiful bays and fjords.

Plants & Animals May 23, 2024

Silent species face extinction: Study highlights bias in conservation research

A new study warns bias towards popular animals in conservation research might see some important, but less spectacular, species suffer "silent extinctions" as their plight goes unrecognized.

Social Sciences May 22, 2024

Youths' attitudes in post-conflict Colombia reflect both cynicism and hope for peace, research finds

Following numerous attempts at peace, in 2016, the Colombian government and the FARC, the largest left-wing guerilla group, signed a peace treaty. Although Colombians were deeply divided about the treaty's prospects when ...

Ecology May 22, 2024

West Coast seabird study shows how they might one day share the air with wind turbines

One day, wind turbines may float off the coasts of California and southern Oregon, providing clean, renewable energy to millions of homes. But before construction can start, researchers are studying how to minimize the potential ...

Earth Sciences May 21, 2024

Researchers investigate meridional deflection of global eddy propagation derived from tandem altimetry

Since the finding of their ubiquitous presence in the ocean decades ago, mesoscale eddies have been recognized as key contributors in transporting heat and substances. A common view on the meridional deflection of eddy propagation ...

Earth Sciences May 21, 2024

'Dusty' archives inspire new story about 1886 Charleston earthquake

Late on August 31, 1886, while many people were asleep, a large quake rocked Charleston, South Carolina, and the surrounding region, toppling buildings, buckling railroad tracks, and causing sand to "boil" or bubble from ...

Planetary Sciences May 21, 2024

The habitable worlds observatory could see lunar and solar 'exo-eclipses'

A future space observatory could use exo-eclipses to tease out exomoon populations.

Earth Sciences May 21, 2024

Research reveals that prehistoric seafloor pockmarks off the California coast are maintained by powerful sediment flows

New MBARI research on a field of pockmarks—large, circular depressions on the seafloor—offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful sediment flows, not methane gas eruptions, maintain these prehistoric formations.

Earth Sciences May 20, 2024

New 3D models reveal how warming climate affects underwater ocean tides

Few things in nature are as predictable as ocean tides. Driven by the moon's and sun's gravitational pull, these persistent, short-period, and large-magnitude phenomena are apparent in nearly all types of oceanographic and ...

Earth Sciences May 20, 2024

Satellite radar data uncover 'vigorous melting' at Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier

A team of glaciologists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine used high-resolution satellite radar data to find evidence of the intrusion of warm, high-pressure seawater many kilometers beneath the grounded ...

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