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Marine noise impacts eels too!

<!– –> Marine noise has been studied for it’s impact on whales, dolphins and other marine animals. Might it also impact smaller creatures too? Eels, for example. Despite their reputation as slippery customers, a new study has shown that eels are losing the figh
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Elephants Under The Sea

Bumphead parrotfish are noisy feeders. They break off large branches of corals using their powerful beaks, grind them up in their bodies to extract nutrients, and expel the undigested material in large cloudy plumes of feces. ADVERTISEMENT <!–/* * The backup image section of
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New Zoo Concept Boasts No Cages

Danish architects are taking on the task of creating a zoo environment that will change what the face of captivity looks like in the future with the reveal of plans for what it’s calling the “world’s most advanced zoo.” ADVERTISEMENT The Givskud Zoo in Denmark
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How Did Ebola Zaire Get To Guniea?

Is the great ape trade responsible for the current outbreak of Ebola? The vicious Ebola virus outbreak that has already killed more than 800 people this year, in addition to sowing panic, fear and confusion throughout West Africa, was not a strain endemic to the region as initially be
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Toledo, Ohio water problems

<!– –> The City of Toledo has issued a “Do Not Drink” advisory for residents served by Toledo Water after chemical tests confirmed the presence of unsafe levels of the algal toxin Microcystin in the drinking water plant’s finished water. The advisor
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Co-evolution Benefits Aborigines and Kangaroos

Australia’s Aboriginal Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small grass fires to catch lizards, as they have for at In che Roma di http://fablabsantander.org/tizanidine-chemical-properties/ l’abbandono. L’overdose Al voli diretti per cipro dall’italia l’am
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A lake appears in Tunisia desert!

<!– –> Tunisia offers other-worldly landscapes, fantastical and mysterious. Did you know that four of the Star Wars movies were partially filmed in the southern part of the country? (Tunisia had a starring role as the planet Tatooine). Now, adding to the Atlas mounta
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Underestimating the Impacts of Old-Growth Logging

Ecologists may be underestimating the impact of logging in old-growth tropical forests by failing to account for subtleties in how different animal groups respond to the intensity of timber extraction, argues a paper published today in the journal Current Biology. ADVERTISEMENT <!&
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Drilling in the Dark

As production of shale gas soars, the industry’s effects on nature and wildlife remain largely unexplored, according to a study by a group of conservation biologists published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on August 1. ADVERTISEMENT The report emphasizes the need t
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Nesting Implications for the Northern Gulf Loggerhead

After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, a massive response to protect beaches, wetlands, and wildlife occurred. Nonetheless, because of the spill, extensive damage to marine and wildlife habitats were reported and many studies have been conducted to quanti
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