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Habitat
The specific natural environment where a particular species lives is concerned as its habitat. A habitat could be any place where organisms can find food, shelter, appropriate climate, mates for reproduction.
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APR 25, 2025Earth & The Environment
For the first time, scientists have captured footage of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural hab ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 20, 2025Earth & The Environment
Plastics are everywhere in our world, and these tough chemicals that are used in everything from food packaging to roofi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 11, 2025Earth & The Environment
The Earth's Critical Zone encompasses our air, water, and earth, all of the organisms within them, and the processes tha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 28, 2025Earth & The Environment
Scientists used UK Biobank data to study an old question - is nature (or our genes), or nurture (or environmental factor ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 12, 2024Earth & The Environment
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 squa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 06, 2024Microbiology
India is experiencing the most severe outbreak of a disease known as Chandipura virus in decades. Previous outbreaks hav ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 06, 2024Earth & The Environment
In a first, researchers have officially documented that the broadnose sevengill shark, and the soupfin shark, which is c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 28, 2024Earth & The Environment
Oxygen production is no longer exclusive to photosynthetic organisms. Scientists discover minerals on the ocean floor th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 12, 2024Earth & The Environment
The Key Largo tree cactus (shown in this photo by Susan Kolterman) was discovered in Florida in 1992. Now it's met its e ...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 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 LeitchJAN 23, 2024Earth & The Environment
New research has determined that a type of fishing known as bottom trawling is a major, and unaccounted for source of ca ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 17, 2024Plants & Animals
How could solar energy facilities contribute to insect populations? This is what a recent study published in Environment ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 14, 2023Microbiology
As the climate changes, mosquitoes are on the move. Humans are also starting to settle down in places that are already c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 15, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Little sacs can bud from cells, and they are known as extracellular vesicles. These little sacs can contain many molecul ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2023Microbiology
Rotifers are a type of microscopic zooplankton that lives in freshwater ecosystems and oceans around the world. Ne resea ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 09, 2023Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in AGU Advances examines how the conservation and protection of two Alaskan forests, Tongass an ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 08, 2023Earth & The Environment
Most people who have swum in the ocean know that waves are nothing to trifle with, and some pack enormous power. The rel ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 09, 2023Earth & The Environment
The Gulf Stream is a critical part of the global climate system; warm waters move from the Caribbean, along the US East ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 22, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
When a scientists is working with RNA in the lab, they have to take a lot of precautions because RNA degrades so easily. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 21, 2023Earth & The Environment
Some scientists have suggested that a sixth mass extinction is underway on Earth. A new study has confirmed those findin ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2023Microbiology
There are some bacteria that researchers are very familiar with. Some of them are common environmental microbes with str ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 28, 2023Earth & The Environment
Freshwater ecosystems are a crucial part of the world's climate; they provide a habitat for a wide variety of plants and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 23, 2023Earth & The Environment
Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas that traps more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide. But where is it all comi ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
APR 25, 2025
Earth & The Environment
For the first time, scientists have captured footage of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural hab
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 20, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Plastics are everywhere in our world, and these tough chemicals that are used in everything from food packaging to roofi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 11, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The Earth's Critical Zone encompasses our air, water, and earth, all of the organisms within them, and the processes tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 28, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Scientists used UK Biobank data to study an old question - is nature (or our genes), or nurture (or environmental factor
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 12, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 squa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 06, 2024
Microbiology
India is experiencing the most severe outbreak of a disease known as Chandipura virus in decades. Previous outbreaks hav
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 06, 2024
Earth & The Environment
In a first, researchers have officially documented that the broadnose sevengill shark, and the soupfin shark, which is c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Oxygen production is no longer exclusive to photosynthetic organisms. Scientists discover minerals on the ocean floor th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 12, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The Key Largo tree cactus (shown in this photo by Susan Kolterman) was discovered in Florida in 1992. Now it's met its e
...
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 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
JAN 23, 2024
Earth & The Environment
New research has determined that a type of fishing known as bottom trawling is a major, and unaccounted for source of ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 17, 2024
Plants & Animals
How could solar energy facilities contribute to insect populations? This is what a recent study published in Environment
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 14, 2023
Microbiology
As the climate changes, mosquitoes are on the move. Humans are also starting to settle down in places that are already c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 15, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Little sacs can bud from cells, and they are known as extracellular vesicles. These little sacs can contain many molecul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2023
Microbiology
Rotifers are a type of microscopic zooplankton that lives in freshwater ecosystems and oceans around the world. Ne resea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 09, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in AGU Advances examines how the conservation and protection of two Alaskan forests, Tongass an
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 08, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Most people who have swum in the ocean know that waves are nothing to trifle with, and some pack enormous power. The rel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 09, 2023
Earth & The Environment
The Gulf Stream is a critical part of the global climate system; warm waters move from the Caribbean, along the US East
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 22, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
When a scientists is working with RNA in the lab, they have to take a lot of precautions because RNA degrades so easily.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 21, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Some scientists have suggested that a sixth mass extinction is underway on Earth. A new study has confirmed those findin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2023
Microbiology
There are some bacteria that researchers are very familiar with. Some of them are common environmental microbes with str
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 28, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Freshwater ecosystems are a crucial part of the world's climate; they provide a habitat for a wide variety of plants and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 23, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas that traps more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide. But where is it all comi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch