Viruses play a role in the ocean’s carbon cycle by influencing the fate of organic carbon. By lysing cells, they help sequester carbon in the deep ocean, affecting global carbon storage. This process is crucial for understanding how the ocean mitigates climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide...
The research team conducted experiments that replicated the belly flop using a blunt cylinder that vibrated upon impact. Previous studies have often focused on rigid bodies hitting the water. But Harris’s team explored the effects when the object is flexible, allowing for shape change or deformatio...
The Paris Agreement on climate change was signed by the largest number of countries ever in one day. The Paris Agreement (Accord de Paris) is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which deals with greenhouse-gas-emission mitigation, adaptation, and...
Humans pose a great risk to the survival of the lions in the form of illegal wildlife trade, poaching, and climate change. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that there are fewer than 25,000 lions remaining in Africa, and has classified them as vulnerable...
Opens Wide in North American Theaters on April 12th After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet—and fight for her family’s survival—when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster. ...
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So how can trees teach us about coping with climate change? Scientists will hike to parts of the forests with no human intervention and start to “core” a randomly selected tree, that is, to use a “corer” to take out samples of the trees’ core without chopping it down. Then the ...
We’ve decided to give you a helping hand and have researched & written the best 100 dinosaur facts that you can imagine. Dinosaurs have been around for more than 230 million years! About 250 million years ago, most life on earth went extinct, and within the next ten million years or so...
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Fun facts about orcas Apex Predators: Orcas are apex predators, meaning they are at the top of the marine food chain. With their incredible hunting skills and cooperative behavior, they can prey on a wide range of marine animals, including fish, seals, sea lions, and even other whale specie...