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Arctic Warming Triggers Abrupt Ecosystem Shift in North America’s Deepest Lake

Great Slave Lake’s huge cold water mass shielded it from impacts of the rapidly warming climate—until now.   From the…

7 months ago

The Life-Wasting Potion

Many, many years ago everyone was strong and healthy. They ate a very varied diet, and especially loved fruit, vegetables,…

11 months ago

Plankton Is Undergoing a Global Migration, With Dire Consequences For The Food Web

If Earth's temperature rises by a significant enough margin, we could see a major restructuring of the plankton species living…

3 years ago

15 Unusual Weather Phenomena That Are Hard to Come Across

Between July 25 and September 23 in 2001, the people of Southern India witnessed one of the most unusual weather…

3 years ago

Sunlight Can Bake Plastic Waste Into a Soup of Tens of Thousands of Organic Molecules

Leave a cheap plastic bag in the sun long enough and it'll eventually crumble into a powdery mess, its petrochemical…

3 years ago

Biodegradable Pollutants – Examples and FAQs

Pollution is very much a hot topic in the modern age—and with good reason. As humans have evolved and our…

3 years ago

Tiny Worm Comes Back To Life After 24,000 Years In Siberian Deep Freeze

Russian scientists found the tiny, ancient microscopic organism called bdelloid rotifer in soil taken from river Alazeya in Russia's Yakutia…

3 years ago

Scientists Discover How a Tiny Freshwater Animal Performs a Somersault

Hydra attached to a surface. Photo: Coveredinsevindust/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 What do hydra, tiny freshwater organisms that look like…

3 years ago

Alien Microorganism Research Shows Humans and Other Mammals Could Struggle to Fight Space Germs

The immune systems of mammals – including humans – might struggle to detect and respond to germs from other planets,…

4 years ago

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