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Surveying the body sizes of Earth’s living organisms, researchers from McGill University and University of British Columbia found that the planet’s biomass – the material that makes up all living organisms – is concentrated in organisms at either end of the size spectrum.
For years, pollinator declines have been a pressing issue for ecosystem health and food security in the face of climate change and human impacts on the environment.
A new paper provides insights on one of the most important factors in the Southern Oceanic carbon cycle, the “biological pump,” where carbon is utilized by organisms at the surface and transferred to ocean depths, away from contact with the atmosphere.
So far this year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 40 percent from the same period in 2022, according to government data.
The North Pacific “Garbage Patch” aggregates an abundance of floating sea creatures, as well as the plastic waste it has become infamous for, according to a study published in PLOS Biology and co-authored by oceanographers in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
A team of astronomers led by the University of Southampton have uncovered the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed.
