Shark squalene is being considered for use in the coronavirus vaccine, warns conservationists. Squalene is a natural organic compound found in shark liver oil. One ton of squalene ka ract va requires 2,500 to 3,000 sharks. Conservation group Shark Elise Predicts that if the world’s population received a single dose …
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The oceans of the world have been transformed into a true sponge for our emissions, and new climate models suggest that we have passed them on immediately. Since the 1950s, the vast water bodies of our planet have absorbed about 93 percent of the energy in the climate system, and …
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Greenland’s ice sheet may have hit a tipping point that puts it on an irreversible path to disappear completely. Snowfall that normally fills the glaciers of Greenland every year can no longer keep up with the rate of ice melting, according to researchers from Ohio State University. This means that …
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The Arctic’s fast-melting ice is even more than our strongest predictions for the future, and that is not in line with the past. A new and improved model, based on the last warm period in the history of the Earth, now suggests shallow pools of rain and melt water could …
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For years, scientists have been trying to track down an extremely rare “boomerang” earthquake. Well, they’d taken one into the ocean for the first time – and it’s even more bizarre than they expected. Earthquakes are the result of rocks breaking on a fault, which is a boundary between two …
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