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Scientists diving to astounding depths in two oceanic trenches in the northwest Pacific have discovered thriving communities of marine creatures that get their sustenance not by eating organic matter
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Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean warming is causing higher concentrations of algal toxins in Arctic food webs,
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The carbon-capture process described in your article uses lime pellets (Shipping is one of the world’s dirtiest industries – could this invention finally clean up cargo fleets? 26 June). These …
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Besides pH, calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) saturation state (Ω) is also an essential parameter of environment health of a given aquatic system, showing potential ecological risk of ocean acidification. …
[By Stewart Edie] About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet. The fallout was immediate and severe. …
[By Stewart Edie] About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet. The fallout was immediate and severe. …
Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) are a class of potent, water-soluble neurotoxins known to reversibly block voltage-gated sodium (Bricelj et al., 2005) and potentially influence calcium channels (Su
Contamination of water bodies by these tiny plastic particles is increasingly being reported worldwide and is widely acknowledged to affect wildlife as well as human beings in more ways than …
Arctic ecosystems face many contamination challenges due to increasing human development and long-range atmospheric transport. Among these contaminants of concern are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Plastic pollution in aquatic environments has been a serious social and scientific concern over the past few decades (Castro et al., 2018), because of its negative impact on ecosystems and …
Metals are highly ranked contaminants of concern in aquatic ecosystems (Johnson et al., 2020) posing ecological and human health risks due to their toxicity, persistence and bioaccumulation. Phytoplan
Understanding how marine organisms recover from oil spills and similar pollution events is critical to managing and conserving ecosystems impacted by anthropogenic disturbances. While acute effects of
Coastal marine ecosystems are subjected to a variety of anthropogenic influences. Every year over 8 million tons of plastics enter the oceans (Geyer et al., 2017), with less than 20 …
Technology group Wärtsilä has secured a contract to supply its Wärtsilä 20 main engine and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system for a new 40.9-meter fishing vessel designed for lobster fishing,
China has started the construction of a deep-sea manned research laboratory in Guangzhou. The facility, weighing 600 tons, will function as a stationary submarine, capable of operating at depths of …
