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Scientists Use Fossils to Assess the Health of Florida’s Largest Remaining Seagrass Bed

The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is.

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Human Activity Reduces Plant Diversity Hundreds of Kilometres Away

Natural ecosystems comprise groups of species capable of living in the specific conditions of a biological system.

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Clay Can Help Make for Tomorrow’s Environmentally Friendly Quantum Technologies

In the future, quantum technology will become the standard for extremely fast computers.

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Does Adapting to a Warmer Climate Have Drawbacks?

Global warming is already very tough for animals in the wild, but it may be toughest for creatures like fish, whose body temperatures are controlled by the water temperatures around them.

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New Computer Language Helps Spot Hidden Pollutants

UC Riverside tool empowers scientists, accelerates discovery.

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Flamingos Create Water Tornados to Trap Their Prey

Stomp dancing, head jerking, chattering and skimming generate whorls and eddies that funnel brine shrimp and small animals into the birds’ mouths.

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A Smoky Start to Saskatchewan’s Fire Season

Wildland fires usually begin to appear in Saskatchewan in April and May as snow melts and landscapes dry out. 

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Eldercare Robot Helps People Sit and Stand, and Catches Them if They Fall

The new design could assist the elderly as they age in place at home.

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Vortex Variety Hour

Winds blowing across the Kuril Islands, between northern Japan and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, sent clouds spinning into compact coils and sprawling swirls on a spring day in 2025. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the vortices on April 14, 2025.

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New Global Model Shows How to Bring Environmental Pressures Back to 2015 Levels by 2050

A first-of-its-kind study in Nature finds that with bold and coordinated policy choices—across emissions, diets, food waste, and water and nitrogen efficiency—humanity could, by 2050, bring global environmental pressures back to levels seen in 2015. 

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