February 13, 2019
Grounding Asian jumping worms
To tell the difference between a regular earthworm and an Asian jumping worm, pick it up. An earthworm will likely just lay there, perhaps …
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November 15, 2016
Coral Reef Roundup: December 2016
With multiple threats facing our coral reefs — from climate change to overfishing — and scientists continually studying the coral reefs beneath …
November 15, 2016
Nutrient deficiency delayed life after mass extinction
After Earth’s most severe mass extinction, life took up to 9 million years to recover — millions of years longer than after other extinction …
August 19, 2014
Nutrient runoff feeding Baltic Sea dead zone
Low-oxygen, or hypoxic, deep waters now extend over an area of about 60,000 square kilometers in the Baltic Sea, a tenfold increase compared to …
January 5, 2012
Tracking trace elements and isotopes in the oceans
A report from the GEOTRACES cruise across the Atlantic For decades, scientists have been trying to piece together the enormously complicated …