Bottle with a message: Story writing connects children to the environment
Researchers used story-writing to explore schoolchildren's perceptions of marine plastic litter and the effects on their behaviors to the problem.
Researchers used story-writing to explore schoolchildren's perceptions of marine plastic litter and the effects on their behaviors to the problem.
Social Sciences
Dec 20, 2022
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Using the word predation may seem surprising when we talk about the first organisms that set out to eat other organisms, for they were not deadly predators with sharp teeth and claws, but small single-celled life forms that ...
Evolution
Dec 20, 2022
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The Great Lakes have endured a lot the past century, from supersized algae blobs to invasive mussels and bloodsucking sea lamprey that nearly wiped out fish populations.
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2022
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In "considerable pain," a determined humpback whale tracked by researchers for more than a decade, recently finished swimming more than 3,000 miles from Canada to Hawaii—all with a broken spine.
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2022
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A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's Arabian Center for Climate and Environmental ScienceS (ACCESS) and Water Research Center have studied how increased use of desalination technologies in combination with projected ...
Environment
Dec 12, 2022
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Dugongs—large herbivorous marine mammals commonly known as "sea cows"—are now threatened with extinction, according to an official list updated Friday.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2022
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Deep-sea hydrothermal vents host unique life that survives without sunlight, and they play a significant role in the cycle of heat, water, and chemicals within the ocean. But long-term monitoring of these vents is difficult ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2022
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There's a new branch on the tree of life and it's made up of predators that nibble their prey to death.
Evolution
Dec 7, 2022
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The biological clock is an internal and independent mechanism that dictates daily rhythm, thus enabling an organism to gauge daily and seasonal signals and live in sync with the rhythm of nature, while maintaining timing ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2022
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The nearshore rocky reefs of the Santa Barbara Channel are dynamic places, with populations of fish, mollusks, algae and other assorted sea life shifting in response to currents, storms and a variety of other conditions. ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2022
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