Oceans

Aquaculture 101: Everything You Need to Know

Aquaculture 101: Everything You Need to Know

Quick Key Facts What Is Aquaculture? When you think of agriculture, the first images that come to mind might include big red barns full of hay, a flock of fuzzy sheep or an orchard of apple trees. But agriculture isn’t just all the flora, fauna and equipment that puts land-based food to our plates. It […]

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    Scientists Discover ‘Dark Oxygen’ on Seafloor, Challenging Ideas on the Origin of Life

    Scientists Discover ‘Dark Oxygen’ on Seafloor, Challenging Ideas on the Origin of Life

    Scientists have discovered “dark oxygen” being created on the ocean seafloor by “polymetallic nodules” that potentially support life, new research in the journal Nature Geoscience shows. Andrew Sweetman, the study’s lead author and member of the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), believes the nodules create oxygen because they behave like natural batteries. “If you […]

    13 Sharks Test Positive for Cocaine Near Brazil

    13 Sharks Test Positive for Cocaine Near Brazil

    Scientists have detected cocaine in multiple sharks off the coasts of Brazil, according to a new study. In the study, which was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, researchers set out to analyze the levels of cocaine as well as benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, in Brazilian sharpnose sharks (Rhizoprionodon lalandii). The […]

    Climate Crisis 101: Everything You Need to Know

    Climate Crisis 101: Everything You Need to Know

    What Is the Climate Crisis? The climate crisis refers to the destabilization of the climate conditions that have allowed human communities and current ecosystems to survive and thrive on Earth. It is caused by a rise in global temperatures that scientists conclude is “unequivocally” driven by human activity — primarily the burning of fossil fuels […]