Environment

How we can avoid polarization in conversations around climate solutions

Environment, Psychology / /

In the scientific community, the consensus on human-caused global warming is almost universal — a recent study from Environmental Research Letters found that more than 99 percent of peer-reviewed papers agreed that humans are causing global warming and climate change. However, among Americans, the belief in anthropogenic climate change is not nearly as strong, with […]

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Nanoplastics officially cover every part of the Earth

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Resting in our polar ice, nanoplastics are a small force about the size of a virus silently contaminating our environment and creating potentially devastating consequences. A team of international scientists set out to measure the precise concentration of nanoplastics in polar ice cores. For the first time, there are figures on the extent to which

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Ice, ice maybe: Impacts of declining sea ice on Arctic predator-prey dynamics

Biology, Environment / /

If current climate trends persist, the Arctic Ocean is predicted to become seasonally ice-free by the 2030s. Sea ice follows a cyclic pattern, partially melting in the summer and re-forming with the cooler temperatures of autumn and winter. However, rising global temperatures have increased the melting rate and decreased the formation rate. During future summers,

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International travel on the ocean floor: How species move between global poles

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Since early expeditions to the farthest regions of the planet, scientists have been intrigued by the presence of visually similar creatures residing in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Hundreds of nearly identical worms, insects, and other small sea creatures have been discovered in both locations. These seemingly bipolar species, living at both the North and

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Alien microbes: The frontier of extraterrestrial research

Biology, Environment / /

Extremophiles are microorganisms that survive — and thrive — in extreme conditions not considered suitable for other forms of life. This umbrella term encompasses bacteria, archaea, protozoa, and fungi with unique adaptations allowing them to inhabit extreme temperature, radiation, salinity, pH, and other physical and geochemical conditions. Extremophiles can be found in deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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Climate change hurts warm waters, too: Coldwater fish need fuel from warm habitats

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We as humans must serve as protection where resources are scarce, populations are threatened, and where there lacks necessary keys to survival. Climate change is deteriorating habitats and creating unlivable conditions for aquatic ecosystems. People fight against climate change to defend and conserve these natural environments. We want to save the earth! However, this is

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