While vacationing in Canada's Rocky Mountains several years ago, Rebecca North was looking for a peaceful break from her work as a water researcher at the University of Missouri. But as she admired one of the clear, pristine ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2020
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Green pond scum floating on a lake is not just unsightly. As animal lovers have learned the hard way, it can be deadly.
Environment
Aug 14, 2019
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Tons of dead fish. A smell so awful you gag with one inhale. Empty beaches, empty roads, empty restaurants.
Ecology
Aug 10, 2018
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(AP) -- Scientists on Florida's Gulf Coast are trying to find an underwater robot that has mysteriously vanished.
Robotics
Sep 5, 2009
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The disastrous 2015-16 Dungeness crab season, delayed and shortened by an unprecedented bloom of toxic algae, is a bitter memory for the West Coast fishing industry. The culprit was domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin produced ...
Environment
Aug 23, 2017
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A team of researchers with the French National Centre for Scientific Research has found an example of environmental microplastics disrupting a predator-prey relationship. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, ...
Polar ecosystems could be at risk from the spread of toxic cyanobacteria if the climate continues to warm, say scientists.
Environment
Mar 2, 2012
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On a remote trail in California's Sierra National Forest called the Devil's Gulch, a family of three and their dog were recently found dead. Authorities were at a loss to explain what happened.
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2021
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Delicate yet voracious, the sea slug Elysia rufescens grazes cow-like on bright green tufts of algae, rooting around to find the choicest bits.
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2019
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Every night Tim Robinson sleeps in his boat, which floats atop a blanket of foul-smelling bright green slime.
Environment
Jul 8, 2016
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