A variety of sea animals can take up virus particles while filtering seawater for oxygen and food.
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HKU Researchers Develop A Novel Wastewater Treatment Process To Effectively Remove Health Hazardous Chemical Contaminants
Globally, there is a growing concern regarding the presence of trace emerging contaminants such as retinoids and oestrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in aquatic environments.
Longer Lives Not Dependent on Increased Energy Use
Growing consumption of energy and fossil fuels over four decades did not play a significant role in increasing life expectancy across 70 countries.
In Earth’s Largest Extinction, Land Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover
The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago — one of the great turnovers of life on Earth — appears to have played out differently and at different times on land and in the sea, according to newly redated fossils beds from South Africa and Australia.
Nighttime Images Capture Change in China
Night lights not only speak to where we live, but how.
The Seafloor Of Fram Strait Is A Sink For Microplastic From The Arctic And North Atlantic Ocean
Working in the Arctic Fram Strait, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have found microplastic throughout the water column with particularly high concentrations at the ocean floor.