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Ecosystem
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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SEP 15, 2019Earth & The Environment
In 2017, Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the, envisioned a novel dro ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 11, 2019Earth & The Environment
The 2018 eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano didn’t just change the lives of several hundred residents and ...Written By: Tiffany DazetSEP 09, 2019Earth & The Environment
Five years ago, a phenomenon dubbed “the blob” caused turmoil along the West Coast of the Pacific Ocean. No, ...Written By: Tiffany DazetSEP 03, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) highlights a recently discovered feedba ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 02, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research from collaborators in Sweden, Germany, Brazil and the USA have developed a financial mechanism meant to enc ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 19, 2019Earth & The Environment
After 40 years of federal protection, a seamount coral community in Hawaii is showing signs of recovery. The Hawaiian-Em ...Written By: Tiffany DazetAUG 19, 2019Earth & The Environment
A new study published recently in PNAS documents the epidemic of non-native pests that are threatening US forests. Accor ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 18, 2019Plants & Animals
Animals can be categorized as having one of two types of diets, including ‘specialists,’ which eat only spec ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 12, 2019Earth & The Environment
Seventeen countries, which are home to 25% of the world’s population, are at risk of extremely high water stress. ...Written By: Tiffany DazetAUG 09, 2019Genetics & Genomics
While a type of algae appears to be thriving in the face of its downgraded envrionment, the story is turning out to be m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 02, 2019Chemistry & Physics
Oceans make up 71% of the Earth's surface, and it also harbors one of the world's greatest yet large untouched e ...Written By: Daniel DuanJUL 31, 2019Earth & The Environment
NASA defines aerosols as tiny, airborne, solid or liquid particles present throughout the atmosphere. Although certain a ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUL 21, 2019Plants & Animals
It seems like newly-discovered animal species are being described and named in scientific journals on a regular basis. W ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 15, 2019Earth & The Environment
A variety of environmental stressors threaten the world's coral reefs, most notably increases in water temperat ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUL 10, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research published recently in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series suggests that coral reefs, like other ecos ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 07, 2019Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Nature Climate Change confirms what scientists and residents of the world have been ob ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 07, 2019Plants & Animals
Bats are an essential part of any ecosystem because they help keep irritating pests, such as mosquitoes, at bay. Unfortu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 01, 2019Earth & The Environment
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to quantify ecosystem services, such as how much reforestation is worth in terms of ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 27, 2019Earth & The Environment
And you thought we had fixed the ozone problem. Don’t speak too soon…new research published in Nature Susta ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 24, 2019Earth & The Environment
Have you heard of a red tide? A red tide is a type of “harmful algal bloom,” an occurrence that reported in ...Written By: Tiffany DazetJUN 17, 2019Plants & Animals
Ecosystems are particularly delicate, and any changes to the careful balances that mother nature had in mind for a speci ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 16, 2019Plants & Animals
Scientists have long been captivated by killifish because they tend to pop up in unexplained places with seemingly no ap ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 05, 2019Plants & Animals
Elephants are some of the world’s most distinguishable animals, with their massive sizes and particularly long tru ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 29, 2019Earth & The Environment
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to global health. Scientists from the University of York conducted a global ...Written By: Tiffany Dazet
SEP 15, 2019
Earth & The Environment
In 2017, Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the, envisioned a novel dro
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 11, 2019
Earth & The Environment
The 2018 eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano didn’t just change the lives of several hundred residents and
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
SEP 09, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Five years ago, a phenomenon dubbed “the blob” caused turmoil along the West Coast of the Pacific Ocean. No,
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
SEP 03, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) highlights a recently discovered feedba
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 02, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research from collaborators in Sweden, Germany, Brazil and the USA have developed a financial mechanism meant to enc
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 19, 2019
Earth & The Environment
After 40 years of federal protection, a seamount coral community in Hawaii is showing signs of recovery. The Hawaiian-Em
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
AUG 19, 2019
Earth & The Environment
A new study published recently in PNAS documents the epidemic of non-native pests that are threatening US forests. Accor
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 18, 2019
Plants & Animals
Animals can be categorized as having one of two types of diets, including ‘specialists,’ which eat only spec
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 12, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Seventeen countries, which are home to 25% of the world’s population, are at risk of extremely high water stress.
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
AUG 09, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
While a type of algae appears to be thriving in the face of its downgraded envrionment, the story is turning out to be m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 02, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
Oceans make up 71% of the Earth's surface, and it also harbors one of the world's greatest yet large untouched e
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 31, 2019
Earth & The Environment
NASA defines aerosols as tiny, airborne, solid or liquid particles present throughout the atmosphere. Although certain a
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUL 21, 2019
Plants & Animals
It seems like newly-discovered animal species are being described and named in scientific journals on a regular basis. W
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 15, 2019
Earth & The Environment
A variety of environmental stressors threaten the world's coral reefs, most notably increases in water temperat
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUL 10, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research published recently in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series suggests that coral reefs, like other ecos
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 07, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Nature Climate Change confirms what scientists and residents of the world have been ob
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 07, 2019
Plants & Animals
Bats are an essential part of any ecosystem because they help keep irritating pests, such as mosquitoes, at bay. Unfortu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 01, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to quantify ecosystem services, such as how much reforestation is worth in terms of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 27, 2019
Earth & The Environment
And you thought we had fixed the ozone problem. Don’t speak too soon…new research published in Nature Susta
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 24, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Have you heard of a red tide? A red tide is a type of “harmful algal bloom,” an occurrence that reported in
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
JUN 17, 2019
Plants & Animals
Ecosystems are particularly delicate, and any changes to the careful balances that mother nature had in mind for a speci
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 16, 2019
Plants & Animals
Scientists have long been captivated by killifish because they tend to pop up in unexplained places with seemingly no ap
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 05, 2019
Plants & Animals
Elephants are some of the world’s most distinguishable animals, with their massive sizes and particularly long tru
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 29, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to global health. Scientists from the University of York conducted a global
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet