When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 with associated travel restrictions, Matthew Long thought his students could shift their overseas research projects to instead study the seagrass meadow ecosystem in Waquoit Bay. It's ...
Plants & Animals
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(Editor's note: This article contains minor spoilers for the Netflix series "Wednesday.")
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2023
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New research led by University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Joanna Blaszczak shows hypoxia in rivers and streams is generally much more prevalent across the globe than previously thought. Hypoxia is low or depleted ...
Environment
Jan 24, 2023
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A new study of red sea urchins, a commercially valuable species, investigated how different populations respond to changes in their environments. The results show that red sea urchin populations in Northern and Southern California ...
Ecology
Jan 20, 2023
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A new study by Stony Brook University researchers published in Global Change Biology demonstrates that warming waters and heat waves have contributed to the loss of an economically and culturally important fishery, the production ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2023
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The water-filtering abilities of farmed kelp could help reduce marine pollution in coastal areas, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks-led study.
Ecology
Jan 19, 2023
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In northern communities, seasonal snow plays a central role in day-to-day activities.
General Physics
Jan 13, 2023
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Certain enzymes from bacteria and algae can produce molecular hydrogen from protons and electrons—an energy carrier on which many hopes are riding. All they need for this purpose is light energy. The major obstacle to their ...
Biochemistry
Jan 11, 2023
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Areas of low-oxygen water stretch for thousands of miles through the world's oceans. The largest of these "oxygen minimum zones" (OMZs) is found along the Pacific coast of North and South America, centered off the coast of ...
Environment
Jan 6, 2023
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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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