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Deepwater Horizon oil buried in Gulf Coast beaches could take decades to biodegrade
Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain…
Tides don't always flush water out to sea, study shows
By area, tidal flats make up more than 50 percent of Willapa Bay in southwest Washington…
GPM finds rainfall waning in extra-tropical storm Gabrielle
The Atlantic Ocean’s Gabrielle has made a second transition and the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or…
NASA finds Faxai now extra-tropical in Pacific Ocean
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean from its orbit in space and took…
Mathematical model could help correct bias in measuring bacterial communities
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a mathematical model that shows how bias distorts…
Study shows how salamanders harness limb regeneration to buffer selves from climate change
Looking like a cross between a frog and a lizard, the gray cheek salamander has thin,…
Microorganisms reduce methane release from the ocean
Next to CO2, methane is the greenhouse gas that contributes most to the man-made greenhouse effect.…
Japan still weighing dump of Fukushima radioactive water into ocean
Japan’s top government spokesman slapped down the environment minister on Tuesday after he said there was…
Chicken study reveals that environmental factors, not just chance, could drive species evolution
In the version of evolutionary theory most of us are familiar with, randomly occurring variation in…