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Microplastics Are Polluting the Ocean at a Shocking Rate

[ad_1] If you throw a polyester sweatshirt in the washing machine, it doesn’t emerge as quite its former self. All…

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Cute Animals Are Overrated. Let’s Save the Weird Ones

[ad_1] “There are a lot of species out there that are overlooked, and when you get to know them they…

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This Christmas, It’s ‘Firmageddon’ as Climate Change Hits Oregon

[ad_1] This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have discovered a…

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The Extraordinary Shelf Life of the Deep Sea Sandwiches

[ad_1] In the late 1960s, a submersible named Alvin suffered a mishap off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The bulbous white…

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The Mystery of Alaska’s Disappearing Whales

[ad_1] This story originally appeared in Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Roswell Schaeffer Sr. was…

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Scientists Reexamine Why Zebra Stripes Mysteriously Repel Flies

[ad_1] For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton, and her team wanted to test stripe width…

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New Mexico’s Beloved Pinyon Jay Is Losing Its Pine Habitat

[ad_1] The petition contains the first estimate of total acreage of piñon-juniper habitat currently treated by the Bureau of Land…

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This Ancient Grain-Sowing Method Could Be Farming’s Future

[ad_1] Today, Ethiopian farmers are feeling the pressure to grow modern monoculture crops, thanks in part to a national push…

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The World Is Drowning in Plastic. Here’s How It All Started

[ad_1] In the early 2010s, brands began phasing out the plastic microbeads they’d been adding to toothpaste and face scrubs…

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The Drying Up of Europe’s Great Rivers Could Be the New Normal

[ad_1] Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers’ decimation is only part of the problem. The less water…

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