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First-of-Its-Kind Map Details the Height of the Globe’s Forests

The map, based on data collected by NASA's ICESat, Terra, and Aqua satellites, should help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world’s forests…

MSU sea lamprey research sheds light on how stress hormones evolved

Corticosteroid hormones control stress response in animals with backbones, including humans. While scientists have learned quite a bit about these so-called…

Findings overturn old theory of phytoplankton growth, raise concerns for ocean productivity

The findings challenge more than 50 years of conventional wisdom about the growth of phytoplankton, which are the ultimate basis for almost all ocean life and…

Indian Ocean Sea Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas

Sea level rise is particularly high along the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, the authors found. The rise-which…

Tiny marine microbes exert influence on global climate

New research indicates that the interactions of microscopic organisms around a particular organic material may alter the chemical properties of the…

Global Warming Slows Coral Growth in Red Sea

As summer sea surface temperatures have remained about 1.5 degrees Celsius above ambient over the last 10 years, growth of the coral, Diploastrea heliopora,…

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