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El Ártico ha sido un lugar remoto durante gran parte de su historia. Pero el cambio climático está trayendo problemas y oportunidades globales a su puerta.
Un bateau navigue la nuit à côté de grands icebergs dans l'est du Groenland.
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L’Arctique a été isolé pendant une grande partie de son histoire. Les changements climatiques lui apportent de nouveaux problèmes mais aussi de nouvelles opportunités.
A boat navigates at night next to large icebergs in eastern Greenland.
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The sediments that accumulate beneath seagrass meadows can act as secure vaults for shipwrecks and other precious artefacts, by stopping water and oxygen from damaging the delicate timbers.
Mobile phones can be used as human tracking devices.
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Rob Harcourt, Macquarie University; Carlos M. Duarte, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and Mark Meekan, Australian Institute of Marine Science
You can learn a lot about the movement of people and animals if you tap into the tracking data from many of today’s mobile phones.
Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Pauline Ernesto, The Conversation
Rising sea levels will lead to a drastic decline in seagrass stocks, a new study has found, but reducing water pollution may help offset the effects. Seagrass is crucial to slowing climate change because…
Seagrasses store carbon more efficiently than rainforests, making them a crucial part of climate change mitigation.
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Will Mumford, The Conversation
Seagrass stores carbon 35 times faster than rainforests, preventing billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases escaping every year, but its crucial role in slowing climate change has been largely overlooked…
A healthy coral trout – the diseased fish are identified by dark lesions.
Richard Ling
Scientists have identified skin cancer in the Great Barrier Reef’s wild fish populations which is almost identical to melanomas found in humans. The team of researchers from the Australian Institute of…
Carbon is channelled deep into the sea through a funnel-like mechanism.
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Carbon emissions are drawn deep into the Southern Ocean by plunging currents, scientists have found, challenging the idea that carbon is locked away from the atmosphere by being absorbed across vast areas…
Vast meadows of seagrass are thought to be the oldest living things on the planet.
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An ancient seagrass that spans up to 15 kilometres and weighs more than 6,000 metric tonnes may be more than 100,000 years old - making it the oldest living organism, Australian researchers have found…
Assistant Professor of Bioscience at at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University. With Ph.D from Kaust, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology