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01/02/2020
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By Edsel Cook
How old is life on Earth? Fossilized fungi could offer clues, say researchers
Ancient fungi might have made their way on land ahead of their plant counterparts. A recent analysis of fossil fungi from the Northwest Territories of Canada suggested that the organisms might be a billion years old. Researchers from Belgium, France and Canada discovered ancient fungi with a complicated and branching shape. They published their findings […]
12/27/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Radioactive waste containment location could be leaking into the Pacific Ocean, warns UN Secretary-General
The head of the United Nations Secretariat recently brought up concerns that a “nuclear coffin” on a Pacific island might be leaking radioactive waste. The toxic pollutants might have been spreading for years. The U.S. built the concrete dome during the 1970s to store toxic substances cleaned up from nearby nuclear weapons testing sites. However, […]
12/04/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Par for the course: Concerned teen diver stumbles upon vast sea of golf balls that pollute the California coast
Hundreds of thousands of golf balls have littered the seabed off the coast of California. First discovered by a teenager, the toxic plastic trash is now getting cleaned up slowly but surely by concerned citizens. Alex Weber stumbled across the pollutants during a snorkeling trip in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2017. She and her friends decided […]
12/02/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Gruesome photos of dead dolphin highlights the unresolved plastic problem along Britain’s coastline
Plastic pollution in the ocean has claimed yet another marine animal as a victim – and in a particularly disturbing way. Gruesome images of a dead dolphin on a beach in Cornwall, U.K. reminded everyone of the deadly threat posed by plastic trash to marine life. Cornish local Simon Heester called in the incident. He […]
11/30/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Football-sized sea bugs devour an alligator carcass on the ocean floor
The bottom of the ocean serves as home sweet home to bug-like crustaceans called giant isopods. Able to grow to the size of a football, these pink-colored critters chew through the tough skin and bones of dead animals that reach the seafloor. Mere hours after the carcass of an alligator or similarly sized large animal […]
11/30/2019
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By Edsel Cook
The Lovecraftian giant sea spider grows holes in its legs… to help it breathe?
The bottom of the sea is so weird that it might as well have come from another planet. And a strange environment produces fittingly odd creatures, such as the sea spider. A marine cousin of terrestrial arachnids like spiders and scorpions, sea spiders look even more nightmarish. A recent study found that sea spiders also […]
11/29/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Why does this 8-inch tarantula and her tiny frog sidekick live together?
Humans often keep dogs as pets to protect their homes and family from intruders. Likewise, a South American species of burrowing tarantula keeps a tiny frog to protect its eggs and young spawn from small insects. In turn, the spider protects the frog from predators. Photographs taken by Italian researcher Emanuele Biggi featured an individual specimen of […]
11/29/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Rivers can create waterfalls by themselves
Some waterfalls didn’t need any help from an earthquake or a similarly powerful event to be born. They achieved their form after thousands of years of abrading the rocks that made up their riverbeds. A waterfall grabs the attention of anyone in its general vicinity. It marks the speed at which the landscape changes thanks […]
11/28/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Understanding how resurrection plants control their water structure to survive long periods of drought
Resurrection plants possess the ability to survive for months or years of drought before making a full recovery once water becomes available again. Japanese and Bulgarian researchers learned how one such species pulled it off by comparing it with a non-resurrecting relative. Their findings showed that the Orpheus flower (Haberlea rhodopensis) got ready for dry […]
11/27/2019
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By Edsel Cook
ALERT: Neonic pesticides in tap water react with chlorine to create hazardous chemicals that are 300 times more toxic
Researchers warn that conventional methods for treating water can trigger chemical reactions in neonicotinoid contaminants. The resulting metabolites are proven to be far more toxic than the original “neonic” pesticides. Their newest experiment followed up on their discovery of neonicotinoids in tap water sources. The team investigated the risk of the pesticides getting exposed to chlorine-based water treatments and transforming into chlorinated disinfection […]
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