Ecology

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How Osmotic Power Works—and Why It Could Run 24/7 Technology

How Osmotic Power Works—and Why It Could Run 24/7

Osmotic power harvests electricity from the natural mixing of saltwater and freshwater. Unlike solar or wind, it runs around the clock—but scaling up...

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How Alcohol Hides in Flower Nectar—and Why Animals Drink It Science

How Alcohol Hides in Flower Nectar—and Why Animals Drink It

Flower nectar routinely contains ethanol produced by fermenting yeasts. A new UC Berkeley survey found alcohol in 26 of 29 plant species, revealing th...

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How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming Science

How Climate Attribution Science Links Weather to Warming

Climate attribution science uses weather data and computer models to determine whether climate change made a specific extreme weather event more likel...

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How Harmful Algal Blooms Work—and Why They Spread Science

How Harmful Algal Blooms Work—and Why They Spread

Harmful algal blooms poison water, kill marine life, and cost economies billions. Here is how they form, what makes them toxic, and why they are growi...

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What Is Earth's Energy Imbalance and How It Works Science

What Is Earth's Energy Imbalance and How It Works

Earth absorbs more energy from the Sun than it radiates back to space. This growing gap, called the energy imbalance, is the master metric behind glob...

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What Is Doggerland—Europe's Lost Land Under the Sea Science

What Is Doggerland—Europe's Lost Land Under the Sea

Doggerland was a vast prehistoric landmass connecting Britain to mainland Europe, now submerged beneath the North Sea. Rising seas and a catastrophic...

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How Freshwater Hides Beneath Oceans—and Why It Matters Science

How Freshwater Hides Beneath Oceans—and Why It Matters

Vast reserves of freshwater lie trapped beneath the seafloor worldwide, totaling an estimated 500,000 cubic kilometers. Scientists are now mapping the...

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How Beaver Dams Store Carbon and Reshape Rivers Science

How Beaver Dams Store Carbon and Reshape Rivers

Beavers are nature's most prolific engineers, building dams that create wetlands, store massive amounts of carbon, reduce flooding, and boost biodiver...

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How Pharmaceuticals Get Into Crops Via Wastewater Science

How Pharmaceuticals Get Into Crops Via Wastewater

As water scarcity pushes farmers worldwide to irrigate with treated wastewater, research reveals that crops absorb trace pharmaceuticals—and where exa...

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How Mosquitoes Find You—Five Senses That Guide the Bite Science

How Mosquitoes Find You—Five Senses That Guide the Bite

Mosquitoes use a sophisticated multi-step sensory system—combining CO₂ detection, body odor, visual cues, infrared radiation, and taste—to locate and...

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What Is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and Why It Matters

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is a vast stretch of Pacific seafloor rich in critical minerals and undiscovered species. It sits at the center of the glo...

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Poland Allocates PLN 16 Million to Brown Bear Protection Program Science

Poland Allocates PLN 16 Million to Brown Bear Protection Program

The Ministry of Climate has launched a four-year, PLN 16 million+ program to protect the brown bear, encompassing prevention, intervention, and educat...

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