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Life in Ancient Oceans
Read more: Life in Ancient OceansCreatures, Extinctions, and Scientific Discoveries Everybody has some idea of what our world looked like millions of years ago, mostly because of movies like Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs are popular, and almost every child knows what a T. rex or a Triceratops is. But what was happening in our oceans, where the origins of all life are…
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AI vs Illegal Fishing
Read more: AI vs Illegal FishingIt’s 4am. There are no lights. No moon. Just the stars out tonight. The perfect conditions. The fish know this, and they’ll be on their guard tonight. As they were last night. As they will be tomorrow night. Illegal fishing has decimated fish populations globally. Experts estimate that…
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Waves of Sustainable Change
Read more: Waves of Sustainable ChangeIn recent years, research on kelp and other seaweeds has increasingly demonstrated potential health benefits, and they have rapidly gained popularity as daily support supplements. It is also being explored as a bio-alternative to plastics, driving increased demand for access to healthy seaweed and reputable growers. Prior to these discoveries, seaweed had long been dismissed,…
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Hoist the Corals
Read more: Hoist the CoralsWhy Getting Them off the Ground Might Be the Smartest Way to Save our Reefs The ocean is quiet here, not the silence of emptiness, but of suspension. Light filters down through endless blue, soft and scattered, illuminating shapes that should not exist so far from shore. Corals glow faintly in the midwater, their forms…
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A symbiosis that stood the test of time
Read more: A symbiosis that stood the test of timeEverybody will have encountered at least one species of the wonderful organism explored here. Whether intentionally or accidentally, this organism has caught ones eye and sparked curiosity as to what those mini-shrubs, colourful two-dimensional patches, hair-like strings or gelatinous structures might be. Adorning the bark of trees, stumps or rocks or even the statues in…
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The Effects of Climate Change in Polar Environments
Read more: The Effects of Climate Change in Polar EnvironmentsThe rise in temperatures around the globe is impacting every region in the planet, but some areas in particular where climate change is strikingly noticeable are the polar regions. In the polar climates of the northern hemisphere and Antarctica in the southern hemisphere, these drastic temperature increases are playing a major role in the degradation…
