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Gotcha! Microbial “methane eaters” use gas bubbles to rise from the seafloor into the water column

To improve our knowledge on the role microorganisms play in the process of regulating methane in the sea, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea…

“Carbon sink” detected underneath world’s deserts

Humans add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere through fossil fuel combustion and deforestation. About 40 percent of this carbon stays in the atmosphere and…

Twin volcanic chains above a single hotspot with distinct roots

Located in the South Atlantic, thousands of kilometers away from the nearest populated country, Tristan da Cunha is one of the remotest inhabited islands on…

Scientists study predator-prey behavior between sharks and turtles

A new collaborative study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science & Abess Center for Ecosystem…

Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean

The study shows that plankton, the tiny drifting organisms in the sea, produce airborne gases and organic matter to seed cloud droplets, which lead to brighter…

Parasitic flatworms flout global biodiversity patterns

The study, published in Ecology, makes a case for using host-parasite relationships as a tool to understand why there are typically more species–and more…

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