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Environment: The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to the Earth or some parts of Earth.
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JUN 05, 2024Plants & Animals
What's with the long neck? While a common hypothesis has been that competition among male giraffes affected neck length, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 04, 2024Microbiology
Aedes mosquitoes are serious disease vectors, and they carry dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses, which all share clin ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 02, 2024Earth & The Environment
There are a few animals that we know use tools, and sea otters are one example. A new study has now shown that individua ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 29, 2024Earth & The Environment
The climate is changing, and the average temperature of the planet continues to get warmer. Parts of 2023 were about 1.5 ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 26, 2024Earth & The Environment
In late 2023, scientists announced that they had found numerous rivers in the Brooks Range of Alaska that were turning o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 22, 2024Earth & The Environment
The world's weather patterns can be strongly affected by the temperature of the surface of the Equatorial Pacific Oc ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 20, 2024Earth & The Environment
Climate change is bearing down on us; temperatures are constantly being made and broken, and severe storms and flooding ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 19, 2024Microbiology
It's estimated that 90% of the biomass in the oceans are marine microorganisms, a group that includes protists, bacteria ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 17, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists are trying to learn more about the exact factors that promote the spread of disease, in part because that wil ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 14, 2024Earth & The Environment
There is broad scientific consensus that high levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 10, 2024Genetics & Genomics
When Atlantic salmon are migrating to spawn, fisheries move to catch them. A new study has found that salmon that are ca ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 08, 2024Earth & The Environment
New research has suggested that personal vehicles are laden with flame retardants that are suspected carcinogens, and th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 05, 2024Earth & The Environment
It's fairly easy to look at a map of the world and see the clear similarities between the western coast of Africa and th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 01, 2024Earth & The Environment
There are over 3,000 species of cicadas, some of which are annual, and others that spend most of their life underground, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 23, 2024Genetics & Genomics
There are trillions of microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract, and this gut microbiome includes bacteria, ar ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 22, 2024Earth & The Environment
Researchers have reported the discovery of fossils from a massive, ancient snake that could have been bigger than a bus.Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 21, 2024Earth & The Environment
Fashion, and particularly fast fashion, is massively destructive to the planet. Only a few decades ago, people and famil ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 19, 2024Earth & The Environment
And experts say that this historical deluge had absolutely nothing to do with cloud seeding efforts in the region.Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 17, 2024Earth & The Environment
Giant rogue waves a far higher than other waves around it, and they often seem to come out of nowhere to wreak havoc on ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 12, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria are only the only organisms that are able to 'fix' nitrogen, or remove it from the atmosphere and convert it in ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 12, 2024Earth & The Environment
Humans have been painting on rocks and in caves for tens of thousands of years. Some of the oldest rock art made by peop ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 07, 2024Earth & The Environment
Ultraviolet (UV) light is a form of electromagnetic radiation that has wavelengths from ten to 400 nanometers, which is ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 03, 2024Earth & The Environment
Frogs and toads around the world have been devastated by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungus that causes the d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 01, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
The incidence of tick borne diseases like Lyme disease and Powassan virus have been on the rise in recent yearsWritten By: Carmen Leitch
JUN 05, 2024
Plants & Animals
What's with the long neck? While a common hypothesis has been that competition among male giraffes affected neck length,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 04, 2024
Microbiology
Aedes mosquitoes are serious disease vectors, and they carry dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses, which all share clin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 02, 2024
Earth & The Environment
There are a few animals that we know use tools, and sea otters are one example. A new study has now shown that individua
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 29, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The climate is changing, and the average temperature of the planet continues to get warmer. Parts of 2023 were about 1.5
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 26, 2024
Earth & The Environment
In late 2023, scientists announced that they had found numerous rivers in the Brooks Range of Alaska that were turning o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 22, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The world's weather patterns can be strongly affected by the temperature of the surface of the Equatorial Pacific Oc
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 20, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Climate change is bearing down on us; temperatures are constantly being made and broken, and severe storms and flooding
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 19, 2024
Microbiology
It's estimated that 90% of the biomass in the oceans are marine microorganisms, a group that includes protists, bacteria
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 17, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists are trying to learn more about the exact factors that promote the spread of disease, in part because that wil
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 14, 2024
Earth & The Environment
There is broad scientific consensus that high levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 10, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
When Atlantic salmon are migrating to spawn, fisheries move to catch them. A new study has found that salmon that are ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 08, 2024
Earth & The Environment
New research has suggested that personal vehicles are laden with flame retardants that are suspected carcinogens, and th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 05, 2024
Earth & The Environment
It's fairly easy to look at a map of the world and see the clear similarities between the western coast of Africa and th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 01, 2024
Earth & The Environment
There are over 3,000 species of cicadas, some of which are annual, and others that spend most of their life underground,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 23, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
There are trillions of microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract, and this gut microbiome includes bacteria, ar
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 22, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Researchers have reported the discovery of fossils from a massive, ancient snake that could have been bigger than a bus.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 21, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Fashion, and particularly fast fashion, is massively destructive to the planet. Only a few decades ago, people and famil
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 19, 2024
Earth & The Environment
And experts say that this historical deluge had absolutely nothing to do with cloud seeding efforts in the region.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 17, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Giant rogue waves a far higher than other waves around it, and they often seem to come out of nowhere to wreak havoc on
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 12, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria are only the only organisms that are able to 'fix' nitrogen, or remove it from the atmosphere and convert it in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 12, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Humans have been painting on rocks and in caves for tens of thousands of years. Some of the oldest rock art made by peop
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 07, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Ultraviolet (UV) light is a form of electromagnetic radiation that has wavelengths from ten to 400 nanometers, which is
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 03, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Frogs and toads around the world have been devastated by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungus that causes the d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 01, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
The incidence of tick borne diseases like Lyme disease and Powassan virus have been on the rise in recent years
Written By:
Carmen Leitch