Sea urchins made to order: Scientists make transgenic breakthrough
Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Consider the sea urchin. Specifically, the painted urchin: Lytechinus pictus, a prickly Ping-Pong ball from the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Plants & Animals
May 30, 2024
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Fishing trawls cause significant CO2 emissions as they stir up the carbon bound in the seabed and release it again. It is also clear that they drastically affect ecosystems in the ocean. A new study by the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...
Earth Sciences
May 29, 2024
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When desert winds stir up dust from the Salton Sea's exposed lakebed, nearby communities suffer from increased air pollution. The deterioration coincides with reduced flows into California's largest lake, finds a new research ...
Environment
May 29, 2024
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The vast majority of Australians (87%) live within 50 kilometers of a coastline. The coast offers scenery, swimming and cooling from the sea.
Environment
May 29, 2024
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In an extraordinary sighting, a critically endangered North Pacific right whale was spotted off the Marin County coast on Friday, thrilling scientists.
Plants & Animals
May 28, 2024
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NASA Langley researchers are heading to the Arctic Ocean to study the habitat's effect on climate worldwide.
Environment
May 27, 2024
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A tiny NASA satellite was launched Saturday from New Zealand with the mission of improving climate change prediction by measuring heat escaping from Earth's poles for the first time.
Earth Sciences
May 25, 2024
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Imagine you're standing near the edge of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, gazing out over the ocean, when the ice near you starts to melt very rapidly. A surge of meltwater flows into the ocean. Surprisingly, you watch the sea level ...
Earth Sciences
May 24, 2024
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The El Niño weather pattern did not have "any influence" on widespread flooding that killed hundreds in East Africa this year, an expert group of scientists said Friday.
Environment
May 24, 2024
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A continuing study from Tel Aviv University has found that the deadly epidemic discovered last year, which has essentially wiped out Eilat's most abundant and ecologically significant sea urchins, has spread across the Red ...
Ecology
May 23, 2024
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