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Supramolecular plastic dissolves in seawater, leaves behind nutrients plants can absorb
To tackle the growing pollution crisis, scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a new type of plastic that remains stable ...
The Ocean’s Green Glow Is a Warning Sign
In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...
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Could alien oceans be green: Earth’s past may hold the key to finding life elsewhere
Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...
After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in Baltic Sea mud, researchers bring prehistoric algae back to life
A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of ...
Earth’s oceans weren’t always blue, scientists say
But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...
The most important part of the ocean you’ve never heard of
The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.
New Research Suggests Earth’s First Oceans Weren’t Blue: They Were Green
Scientists have discovered evidence that Earth's oceans were once green, hinting that this could be a marker of early life, ...
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Tamino's new album reflects the loss and change of a move across the ocean
A few years ago, the singer Tamino was on the terrace of his home in Antwerp, Belgium, surrounded by plants. TAMINO: One day, I sat there, and I looked around, and they had all died. And there was ...
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Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...
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Ocean plant cell discovery might revolutionize farming
On research cruises, while testing seawater, he and his colleagues kept finding the same fragment of DNA in the ocean. But when they went to look ... the ability to engineer plants that could snatch ...
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Ocean plant cell discovery might revolutionize farming
On research cruises, while testing seawater, he and his colleagues kept finding the same fragment of DNA in the ocean. But when ... the ability to engineer plants that could snatch nitrogen ...