After 100 years of trying, scientists have found a way to create the pufferfish neurotoxin

After 100 years of trying, scientists have found a way to create the pufferfish neurotoxin

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is the most poisonous natural neurotoxin known to humanity. It is produced in the

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Sharks are older than the dinosaurs. What's the secret to their success?

Sharks are older than the dinosaurs. What's the secret to their success?

Sharks are hardly newbies on our planet. As a group, they have existed for at least 450 million year

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How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia

How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia

On Calvert Island, British Columbia, the subtle rock line of an extant clam garden is a reminder of

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This frisky dolphin pod riding a whale's pressure wave is a rare sight

This frisky dolphin pod riding a whale's pressure wave is a rare sight

A pod of bottlenose dolphins was seen “bow riding” a blue whale in Dana Point, California, in a beau

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RED ALERT: Crown of thorns starfish outbreak on the reefs of Port Sudan

RED ALERT: Crown of thorns starfish outbreak on the reefs of Port Sudan

Crown Of Thorns Starfish Outbreak in Port Sudan While performing our research & monitoring work in r

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How Fish Poop Might Help Corals Overcome Bleaching

How Fish Poop Might Help Corals Overcome Bleaching

Some fish, such as the ornate butterflyfish, eat coral polyps. When they do, they also ingest the co

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What is the intertidal zone?

What is the intertidal zone?

A tide pool within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Intertidal zones exist anywhere the ocean

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Australia Drops a Bombshell: An Environment Report Card That Nobody Should Ignore

Australia Drops a Bombshell: An Environment Report Card That Nobody Should Ignore

Australia's Parliament House amidst bushfire smoke. (Daniiielc/Getty Images) ENVIRONMENT Every five

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On the variability of the Bering Sea Cold Pool and implications for the biophysical environment

On the variability of the Bering Sea Cold Pool and implications for the biophysical environment

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article x Figures Abstract The Bering Sea experie

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Officials: Starvation Threat Not Over for Florida Manatees

Officials: Starvation Threat Not Over for Florida Manatees

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Beware of bad science reporting: No, we haven’t killed 90% of all plankton

Beware of bad science reporting: No, we haven’t killed 90% of all plankton

For the past few days, it has been hard to look at social media without coming across a scary-lookin

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Atlantic Ocean 'pretty much dead' says scientist as plankton wiped out

Atlantic Ocean 'pretty much dead' says scientist as plankton wiped out

An Edinburgh-based research team says plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in the seas, ha

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