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An ecosystem refers to all living and nonliving features of a particular physical location. This includes living organisms as well as non living things, like weather, that interact with one another.
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AUG 12, 2020Earth & The Environment
Warnings about an "insect apocalypse" have been making headlines in ecology and conservation news in the past ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 11, 2020Microbiology
While we can exert a degree of control over our surroundings, we still share the world and our bodies with microbes.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 10, 2020Earth & The Environment
Scientists at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa report heightened concerns over the ecological impacts of deep-seab ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 04, 2020Earth & The Environment
A study published recently in the Journal of Applied Ecology harps on the necessity of incorporating Indigenous and loca ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 03, 2020Earth & The Environment
Have you ever heard of biocrusts? No, it’s not a new kind of pizza crust. Biocrusts refer to a group of tiny deser ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 03, 2020Plants & Animals
Scientists used cutting edge technologies to assess how pervasive toxic or household chemicals and pathogens like plasti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 02, 2020Microbiology
Cells can be grouped into two general categories: prokaryotic, which make up microbes like bacteria and archaea, or euka ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 28, 2020Earth & The Environment
We often only think of the impact of lightning on how it relates to humans, but new research from the Smithsonian Tropic ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 23, 2020Plants & Animals
Sharks of all sizes are vital to coral reef ecosystems, both as predators and prey. Shark populations have rapidly decli ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUL 18, 2020Earth & The Environment
Breaking news reports that agrochemicals that pollute our waters also increase the transmission of the parasite that cau ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 17, 2020Microbiology
Researchers at Caltech have serendipitously found microbes that consume manganese for energy.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 16, 2020Plants & Animals
In the wild, bees rely on the flora and fauna in their environment to survive. Networks of plants and their pollinators ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 13, 2020Earth & The Environment
Within the past ten years, blooms of phytoplankton have taken over the Arctic. Phytoplankton, tiny algae that photosynth ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 11, 2020Earth & The Environment
Australia is losing its seagrass. That’s according to a new report released by marine scientists at the Centre for ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 06, 2020Earth & The Environment
Soil scientist Karen Vaughan from the University of Wyoming knows how to classify a soil well. There’s a science t ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 30, 2020Earth & The Environment
Research published in Frontiers in Marine Science paper describes the discovery of a soft coral garden in the waters off ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 30, 2020Plants & Animals
Many scientists have taken note of the rapid decline many of the world species, and several have declared that Earth's s ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 19, 2020Earth & The Environment
Following the failure of the 10-year plan for conserving biodiversity to reach its 2020 goals, a team of scientists has ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 18, 2020Chemistry & Physics
It's a story that sounds way too familiar: scientists find a chemical to kill weeds and increase crop production, th ...Written By: Daniel DuanJUN 16, 2020Earth & The Environment
Plastics and microplastics are certainly not recent developments in ocean pollution. However, scientists continue to inv ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUN 16, 2020Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Conservation Letters highlights the importance of considering land-use history when ev ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 11, 2020Earth & The Environment
New research categorizing certain landscapes as “disturbance refugia” shines a light on an important ecologi ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 08, 2020Earth & The Environment
The ocean remains largely unexplored, and the ocean’s twilight zone is of key interest to researchers. Named for t ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUN 08, 2020Earth & The Environment
According to new research from Northumbria University, England, nearly 13,000 metric tons of microfibers are released in ...Written By: Tiffany Dazet
AUG 12, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Warnings about an "insect apocalypse" have been making headlines in ecology and conservation news in the past
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 11, 2020
Microbiology
While we can exert a degree of control over our surroundings, we still share the world and our bodies with microbes.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 10, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Scientists at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa report heightened concerns over the ecological impacts of deep-seab
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 04, 2020
Earth & The Environment
A study published recently in the Journal of Applied Ecology harps on the necessity of incorporating Indigenous and loca
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 03, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Have you ever heard of biocrusts? No, it’s not a new kind of pizza crust. Biocrusts refer to a group of tiny deser
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 03, 2020
Plants & Animals
Scientists used cutting edge technologies to assess how pervasive toxic or household chemicals and pathogens like plasti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 02, 2020
Microbiology
Cells can be grouped into two general categories: prokaryotic, which make up microbes like bacteria and archaea, or euka
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2020
Earth & The Environment
We often only think of the impact of lightning on how it relates to humans, but new research from the Smithsonian Tropic
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 23, 2020
Plants & Animals
Sharks of all sizes are vital to coral reef ecosystems, both as predators and prey. Shark populations have rapidly decli
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUL 18, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Breaking news reports that agrochemicals that pollute our waters also increase the transmission of the parasite that cau
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 17, 2020
Microbiology
Researchers at Caltech have serendipitously found microbes that consume manganese for energy.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 16, 2020
Plants & Animals
In the wild, bees rely on the flora and fauna in their environment to survive. Networks of plants and their pollinators
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 13, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Within the past ten years, blooms of phytoplankton have taken over the Arctic. Phytoplankton, tiny algae that photosynth
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 11, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Australia is losing its seagrass. That’s according to a new report released by marine scientists at the Centre for
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 06, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Soil scientist Karen Vaughan from the University of Wyoming knows how to classify a soil well. There’s a science t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 30, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Research published in Frontiers in Marine Science paper describes the discovery of a soft coral garden in the waters off
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 30, 2020
Plants & Animals
Many scientists have taken note of the rapid decline many of the world species, and several have declared that Earth's s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 19, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Following the failure of the 10-year plan for conserving biodiversity to reach its 2020 goals, a team of scientists has
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 18, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
It's a story that sounds way too familiar: scientists find a chemical to kill weeds and increase crop production, th
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 16, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Plastics and microplastics are certainly not recent developments in ocean pollution. However, scientists continue to inv
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUN 16, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Conservation Letters highlights the importance of considering land-use history when ev
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 11, 2020
Earth & The Environment
New research categorizing certain landscapes as “disturbance refugia” shines a light on an important ecologi
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 08, 2020
Earth & The Environment
The ocean remains largely unexplored, and the ocean’s twilight zone is of key interest to researchers. Named for t
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUN 08, 2020
Earth & The Environment
According to new research from Northumbria University, England, nearly 13,000 metric tons of microfibers are released in
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet