In August 2012, in the frigid wilderness of West Greenland, the Jakobshavn Glacier was flowing and breaking off into the sea at record speeds, three times…
In a paper published in Nature Communications this week, researchers documented extensive diversity in the microbial communities living in the extremely hot,…
“One limiting factor in the use of alginate hydrogels is that they're very fragile — they tend to fall apart under mechanical load or in low salt solutions,”…
In a recent publication, Dr. Bin Wang from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Professors…
The rising sea levels have several causes: thermal expansion of the water as it warms, melting glaciers and ice sheets, and finally the extraction of…
Ghost nets and other plastic garbage drifting in the sea could soon be detected automatically by planes, drones or satellites. The basis for this has been laid…