Hatchling turtles are cute, small and inexpensive. Handled improperly, they can also make you sick.
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2023
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Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right whale.
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2023
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A paper published in Environmental Pollution, authored by Saint Louis University (SLU) scientists, shows that human proximity is the best indicator of microplastics being found in the Meramec River in Missouri.
Environment
Nov 16, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have found that the larvae of freshwater pearl mussel survive best in the original salmon fish population of their home river. Their study was published in Freshwater ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2022
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The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States.
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2022
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As the cherished rainforest in South America's Amazon River region continues to shrink, the river itself now presents evidence of other dangers: the overexploitation of freshwater fish.
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2022
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Today, the Salton Sea is an eerie place. Its mirror-like surface belies the toxic stew within. Fish skeletons line its shores and the ruins of a once thriving vacation playground is a reminder of better days. But long before ...
Earth Sciences
May 31, 2022
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It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world's cleanest rivers running through a city. What's even more surprising is that it reached that status just 60 years after being declared "biologically ...
Environment
Apr 21, 2022
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Microplastics can deposit and linger within riverbeds for as long as seven years before washing into the ocean, a new study has found.
Environment
Jan 12, 2022
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Human pollution is often evident from oil slicks and plastic drifting on shore, but many of the drugs humans consume also end up washing out into the water, and current effluent treatment isn't equipped to deal with them. ...
Ecology
Jul 7, 2021
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