It is difficult to imagine what the earth would have looked like in the years before life began. Geological investigators have now found more evidence that it was different than the planet we live on today. According to a new analysis of the features of the Earth’s crust over its …
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Michael Polito, an associate professor of oceanography and marine science at Louisiana State University, says that for penguins, even if the iceberg does not completely prevent entry into the ocean, it can force them to move around the ice to bring back food for their cubs. . While penguins can …
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Coral reefs in the United States are in good condition, according to the current reef condition report, but are vulnerable to decline. Scientists estimate that about 2% of the original coral remains off the coast of Florida, where the decline is most severe. In a report released last week by …
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There are traces of ancient dust at the bottom of the South Pacific Ocean that has changed the Earth’s atmosphere, and new research suggests it came from beneath Argentina’s ice-age glaciers. Wrapped by heavy westerly winds about 20,000 years ago, these microscopic minerals would have circulated almost all over the …
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LONDON (AP) – Tristan da Cunha, an island with 245 permanent residents, is being built to protect endangered rockhopper penguins, yellow-nosed albatrosses and other wildlife in the South Atlantic, three times the size of the United Kingdom. . The British Foreign Office, which calls itself the most remote island on …
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