The gray whale population along the West Coast showed another year of declines, according to the latest estimates, but scientists say there are some positive signs for the formerly endangered whales.
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2023
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When Argentinian geologist Federico Alvarez Hazer immigrated to Baltimore one year ago to live with his wife, he imagined that his days working on fossil dig sites close to home—as he had in South America's Patagonia region—were ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 13, 2023
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The term "temperate rainforest," or "Celtic rainforest," has rapidly gained public attention in the UK recently.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2023
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Rising ocean temperatures are sweeping the seas, breaking records and creating problematic conditions for marine life. Unlike heatwaves on land, periods of abrupt ocean warming can surge for months or years. Around the world ...
Ecology
Jul 13, 2023
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It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world.
Environment
Jul 1, 2023
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The Pacific oyster has taken over in the Swedish west coast county of Bohuslän. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have found that the invasive species accounts for two-thirds of the biomass of all mussel and oyster ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2023
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Outside a bustling fruit market in Senegal's Dakar region, three trucks are blocking the road while a dozen men sweat to unload the precious cargo.
Agriculture
Jun 28, 2023
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COVID-19, invasive species, and the spread of persistent chemicals and plastics provide one form of evidence that we live on a planet with an interconnected biosphere. Dangers from one part of the planet find their way to ...
Environment
Jun 12, 2023
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In early 2014, a great anomaly descended upon the seas: A patch of warm water that manifested in the Gulf of Alaska. Scientists called it "The Blob."
Ecology
Jun 5, 2023
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In the not too distant future, California's coastline and its iconic beaches could be washed away, leaving only cliffs behind.
Earth Sciences
May 30, 2023
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