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PFAS Exposure From High Seafood Diets May Be Underestimated

Study stresses the need to set safety standards for “forever chemicals” in seafood.

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Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future

Research could dramatically extend the lifetime of devices needed to turn hydrogen green.

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Addressing the Colorado River Crisis

Sustaining the American Southwest is the Colorado River. But demand, damming, diversion, and drought are draining this vital water resource at alarming rates.

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Food Scientists are Finding Ways to Preserve Food Quality and Ensure Food Safety

Sometimes the processing that makes food safe can compromise flavor and nutrients, but food scientist Jennifer Acuff is looking for a way to make food safe and minimize loss of quality.

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Flamingos Threatened by Rising African Lake Levels

New research led by King’s College London has revealed how the Lesser Flamingo is in danger of being flushed from its historic feeding grounds, with serious consequences for the future of the species.

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Where Have All the Right Whales Gone?

Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right whale, using newly analyzed data to predict and help avoid whales’ harmful, even fatal, exposure to commercial fishing and vessel strikes.

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With the Planet Facing a 'Polycrisis', Biodiversity Researchers Uncover Major Knowledge Gaps

A scientific review has found almost no research studying the interconnections across three major threats to planetary health, despite UN assessments suggesting one million species are at risk of extinction, a global pandemic that resulted in over six million excess deaths, and a record-breaking year of global temperatures.

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Tropical Coral-Infecting Parasites Discovered in Cold Marine Ecosystems

Parasites thought only to infect tropical coral reefs have been discovered in a large variety of creatures in cold marine ecosystems along the Northeast Pacific, according to new research from University of British Columbia botanists.

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Ocean Currents Threaten to Collapse Antarctic Ice Shelves

A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the interplay between meandering ocean currents and the ocean floor induces upwelling velocity, transporting warm water to shallower depths.

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Cloud Engineering Could Be More Effective ‘Painkiller’ for Global Warming Than Previously Thought

Cloud ‘engineering’ could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research shows.

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