Plastic pollution is more than just trash on the beach.
Polluting the Environment for All Eternity – and Still Sticking our Heads in the Sand
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Tiny Marine Animal Reveals Bacterial Origin of Animal Defense Mechanisms
Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early evolutionary origins of animal life processes.
Sea Turtles are Nesting Earlier – but Producing Fewer Eggs, Less Often: New Research
A new 17-year study of loggerhead sea turtles nesting in Cabo Verde reveals exactly this tension.
NASA Selects UW-Led STRIVE and EDGE Teams for Satellite Missions
NASA announced last week that both the University of Washington STRIVE team and the UW-affiliated EDGE team were selected to lead satellite missions to better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters.
How can we Reverse Biodiversity Loss?
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, highlights the importance of climate policies in reversing biodiversity loss across the planet, and points to amphibians as the group of vertebrates particularly affected by the combined effects of multiple threats.
Urban Light Pollution Alters Nighttime Hormones in Sharks, Study Shows
Artificial light from major coastal cities can disrupt the nighttime biology of sharks, according to new research that provides the first-ever measurements of melatonin—a hormone tied to biological rhythms—in wild sharks.
