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NOAA Report Calls Flame Retardants Concern to U.S. Coastal Ecosystems

The new findings are in contrast to analysis of samples as far back as 1996 that identified PBDEs in only a limited number of sites around the nation. Based on…

Scripps Scientists Help Decode Mysterious Green Glow of the Sea

Many longtime sailors have been mesmerized by the dazzling displays of green light often seen below the ocean surface in tropical seas. Now researchers at…

UBC study first to show evolution's impact on ecosystems

Researchers from the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre created mini-ecosystems in large aquatic tanks using different species of three-spine stickleback fish…

Antarctic marine biodiversity data now online

The International Polar Year (IPY) concluded in March 2009 with a tangible legacy in the form of a network of databases on marine biodiversity that will serve…

New images of marine microbe illuminate carbon and nitrogen fixation

Trichodesmium is unusual among marine microbes because it both “breathes” carbon dioxide like plants, while also taking nitrogen gas from the air and “fixing”…

Technique measures heat transport in the Earth's crust

Putting a new spin on an old technique, Anne M. Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington…

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