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Islands to lose fresh water as rising seas sink them from within
Small island nations are among the countries most at risk from climate change, as rising sea levels threaten to swamp them and make their fresh water…
Making Monster Waves in the Lab
Rogue waves are rare in nature, but new research is making them perfectly common. They seem to come from nowhere, walls of water towering above the sea, and…
Keeping Track of Deep-Sea Mining
A new website uses ship location data to track deep-sea mining exploration. Mining companies have claimed more than a million square kilometers of ocean around the…
Endangered frog recovers thanks to resistance to deadly fungus
For decades a deadly fungus has been slaughtering amphibians around the world, driving many to the brink of extinction or even beyond. But now one frog’s…
Physiology or Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Cell’s Recycling Process
Yoshinori Ohsumi revealed workings of autophagy, a routine biological process implicated in many diseases. The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to…
Surfing on a turtle’s tail makes swinging crabs monogamous
Surfing the world’s oceans on the back of a turtle may sound like a life of luxury, but for a small crab it also means restricting…