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Triple threat: World fin trade may harvest up to 73 million sharks per year

“The shark fin trade is notoriously secretive. But we were able tap into fin auction records and convert from fin sizes and weights to whole shark equivalents…

New wood-plastic composites to boost industry, help use waste products

Wood-plastic composites, often used for such things as outdoor decking, are one of the fastest growing components of the wood composites industry. Some…

IARC scientists document warm water surging into Arctic

Scientists made the observations this fall during an oceanographic cruise aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn as part of the Nansen and Amundsen…

New scientific challenges and goals for ESA's Living Planet Programme

The Changing Earth: New Scientific Challenges for ESA's Living Planet Programme focuses on the most fundamental challenge facing humanity at the beginning of…

Mind the gap: Space scientists uncover causes of gap in Van Allen belts

The discovery settles years of controversy among space scientists about the mechanisms responsible for causing the gap and has important implications for space…

NASA Study Finds World Warmth Edging Ancient Levels

The study appears in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, authored by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space…

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