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Hundreds of large habitat shifts have shaped life on Earth today

An international team led by Uppsala University researchers has uncovered that eukaryotes (organisms with a cellular nucleus) have made hundreds of big leaps from sea to soil and freshwater habitats,…

Highest coral cover in central, northern Reef in 36 years

The northern and central Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago. Published today,…

Hot on the trail of the causes of rapid ice sheet instabilities

… in climate history. Heinrich Events or, more accurately, Heinrich Layers, are recurrent conspicuous sediment layers, usually ten to 15 centimeters thick, with very coarse rock components that interrupt the…

How did Earth avoid a Mars-like fate?

Ancient rocks hold clues. New paleomagnetic research suggests Earth’s solid inner core formed 550 million years ago and restored our planet’s magnetic field. Approximately 1,800 miles beneath our feet, swirling…

Off-axis high-temperature hydrothermal field discovered at the East Pacific Rise 9°54’N

The first-known, off-axis, high-temperature deep-sea hydrothermal vents along a portion of the northern East Pacific Rise are hotter and cover more area than any other hydrothermal vents studied to date…

Microplastics: Shipwreck and beach as a real-world laboratory

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart present long-term study on the degradation of plastic. It was a shipwreck for the benefit of science. In June 1993, the cargo ship SS…

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