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Miguel Monteiro
Severe drought and heat in the central amazon turned Lake Tefé into a shallow spa, killing fish and endangered river dolphins.
Hotter than your average spa: Rising temps in Amazon lakes sound alarm over climate change
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Volunteer taxonomist Gustav Pauly from the Florida Museum of Natural History, left and SBC-LTER lab technician Darrin Ambat on a morning dive to retrieve Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures from the sea floor
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A commercial fishing vessel near Kodiak Island, Alaska
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Cargo vessel congestion at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex during the COVID pandemic
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Geospatial information about how women use the ocean is an important part of marine spatial planning, but tends to be hidden in the data
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The non-native black rat was the only small mammal infected with Hantavirus in an immensely biodiverse region of Madagascar. Animals trapped in agricultural fields carried the disease more often than those trapped in homes or in the rainforest.
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City of Santa Monica
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Matt Perko
Differences in gene expression, not just their presence, seems to drive the remarkable specialization found in the human brain.
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Coconut palms account for more than one third of forested areas on Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia, which falls far short of the region’s most heavily impacted atolls.