A forthcoming study of over a hundred new cities being built around the world suggests developers and planning authorities are doing very little to make their projects resilient to climate change. On the contrary, a boom ...
Environment
Sep 12, 2018
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The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world's largest dead zones, areas of oxygen-starved waters where most marine animals can't survive. But while parts of this sea have long suffered from low oxygen levels, a new study ...
Environment
Jul 5, 2018
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A new link between processes in the open ocean and coastal sea-level has been revealed in a Nature Communications paper, published today by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
Environment
Jul 4, 2018
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Have you ever considered that small pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters long, or smaller than a pencil eraser head, called microplastics, can affect large marine vertebrates like sea turtles?
Ecology
Jun 6, 2018
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June 1 marks the start of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, with some communities still rebuilding after last year's largest storms.
Environment
Jun 1, 2018
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Mayor Hannah Anderson, a fifth-generation resident, remembers the thrill of sledding down from the sand dunes above Weko Beach right onto frigid Lake Michigan with her friends on winter days in the 1950s.
Environment
Mar 7, 2018
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Seagrass meadows play a crucial role in reducing coastal erosion, making their conservation key for combating rising sea levels due to climate change.
Environment
Feb 21, 2018
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Ocean food resources are most volatile in areas which hold most of the world's marine resources, like fish, a new study has revealed.
Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2018
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Working on a way to alleviate eutrophication in coastal waters, a research collaboration between Kumamoto University in Japan and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in the U.S. reports a combination of bacteria ...
Environment
Feb 6, 2018
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This Geocolor image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-16 satellite captures the deepening storm off the East coast of the United States on Jan. 4, 2018, at 16:22 UTC. The powerful nor'easter ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 5, 2018
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