While much of the shark focus is centered on great whites along Cape Cod this time of year, another shark species has been making waves in recent years off of Nantucket.
Plants & Animals
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Researchers have discovered a flesh-eating fish is in major decline—by looking at the stomach content of some of the world's largest bird, albatrosses.
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2023
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Enceladus is the tiny moon of Saturn that seems to have it all. Its icy surface is intricately carved by ongoing geological processes. Its icy shell overlies an internal, liquid ocean. There, chemically charged warm water ...
Astrobiology
Jun 18, 2023
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Climate change-driven shifts in the circulation of waters to the deepest reaches of the ocean around Antarctica, which could reverberate across the planet and intensify global warming, are happening decades "ahead of schedule", ...
Environment
May 28, 2023
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Last summer, we traveled to the remote Arctic Hausgarten observatory area in the eastern Fram Strait (west of Svalbard, Norway) on a research ship. The samples we collected there included ice cores, sea water and ice algae ...
Earth Sciences
May 12, 2023
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With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity's carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming "time bomb".
Environment
May 4, 2023
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I was part of a team that recently discovered human-made pollutants in one of the deepest and most remote places on Earth—the Atacama Trench, which goes down to a depth of 8,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean. The presence ...
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2023
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New research published in PeerJ by Rebecca Helm and colleagues at Georgetown University demonstrates why it is important that methods of assessment and evaluation of ecosystem impacts of novel high seas activities account ...
Environment
Apr 27, 2023
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When thinking of animals that live in the most extreme environments on Earth most of us probably don't think of the snailfish. Its name may not hint at extraordinary physical capabilities but the snailfish has broken the ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2023
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With its brilliant sun, white sand and turquoise water, Lido Key Beach would make for a perfect postcard of Florida beaches if it weren't for the dozens of dead fish lying on the shore, killed by a toxic algae bloom known ...
Ecology
Mar 19, 2023
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