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Tara back from Pacific expedition with startling data : motley map of reef health
After two and a half years navigating the Pacific, where over 40% of our planet's coral reefs are found, the schooner Tara returned to Lorient, its…
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Thirteen ocean solutions for climate change
Over a dozen international researchers from the Ocean Solutions InitiativeThe Ocean Solutions Initiative is concerned with the future of the ocean…
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A research project in the French West Indies for repurposing Sargassum seaweed
A research team including the CNRS and the Université des Antilles has just launched an 18-month interdisciplinary research project, largely financed…
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Halting biodiversity loss : political actions are required, not additional scientific knowledge
Over 15 years, almost 13,000 scientific papers have been published in the leading conservation science journals. Yet biodiversity remains threatened…
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2018–2022 expected to be abnormally hot years
This summer’s world-wide heatwave makes 2018 a particularly hot year. As will be the next few years, according to a study led by Florian Sévellec, a…
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Did Romans hunt whales in the Mediterranean Sea?
Commercial whaling is believed to have started with Basque whalers ca. 1000 AD, ultimately resulting in the extirpation of right whales (Eubalaena…
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Bacteria ensure square meal for bloodsucking ticks
How do ticks live solely on blood? A study presented in Current Biology (May 31, 2018) has elucidated the crucial role played by symbiotic…
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