Climate change is raising the risk of extreme weather, causing food shortages and threatening the existence of myriad species—and if that weren't enough, it's now prompting pirates to plague the world's oceans and seas.
Environment
Apr 27, 2023
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In the late 1980s, scientists discovered that when a whale dies, its carcass sinks to the ocean bottom and a new ecosystem springs forth around the carcass. The carcass becomes a food source for this new ecosystem. A team ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2023
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A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia's largest maritime wartime ...
Archaeology
Apr 23, 2023
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Long before dinosaurs, Earth was dominated by animals that were in many ways even more incredible.
Earth Sciences
Apr 7, 2023
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Antarctic sea ice is an important component of the climate system, and may act as an early indicator of climate change. Under global warming, significant changes in Antarctic sea ice have been observed. Specifically, it experienced ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2023
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In a study published in the journal Science China Earth Sciences, researchers led by Dr. Mengyuan Wang (School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University) proposed a non-linear regression of UK'37–SST for samples collected ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2023
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The origins of the modern Yangtze River and evolution of drainage systems in South and East Asia were linked to Neogene uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and onset of the modern Asian monsoon system. However, deriving an ...
Evolution
Mar 27, 2023
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The phenomenon of chemically synthesized life in extreme deep-sea environment is an international research hotspot in deep-sea science and life science. However, due to the extremely low concentration of organic macromolecules ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 21, 2023
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The extraordinary footage of a Russian jet intercepting a US drone over the Black Sea earlier this week demonstrates just how potentially disastrous such encounters outside actual war zones can be.
Political science
Mar 17, 2023
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The Kuroshio Current enters the South China Sea via the Luzon Strait and exerts significant effects on circulation and water mass properties of this marine basin. However, limited by the few on-site observations, multi-decadal ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 28, 2023
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