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Southampton researchers go with the flow to help protect endangered European eel

The European eel, a fish of high cultural, commercial and conservation concern, has suffered a dramatic decline over recent decades, with the number of…

The oceans can’t take any more

Our oceans need an immediate and substantial reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. If that doesn’t happen, we could see far-reaching and largely…

Extreme makeover: Mankind's unprecedented transformation of Earth

Human impact on Earth produces a unique kind of biosphere
Changes to life may be the greatest for the past half billion years
Earth may be entering a new…

Monitoring volcanoes with ground-based atomic clocks

Atomic clocks measure time with unbelievable accuracy. The best atomic clocks are so precise that they would lose less than one second over a period of 10…

Atmospheric mysteries unraveling

It's been difficult to explain patterns of toxic mercury in some parts of the world, such as why there's so much of the toxin deposited into ecosystems from…

A 'hydrothermal siphon' drives water circulation through the seafloor

Vast quantities of ocean water circulate through the seafloor, flowing through the volcanic rock of the upper oceanic crust. A new study by scientists at UC…

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