Tag Archives: Environmental science

How dolphins avoid “curves”

[ad_1] Newswise – Dolphins actively slow their hearts down before diving and can even adjust their heart rate depending on how long they intend to dive, a new study suggests. Posted in Frontiers in physiology, the findings provide new insights into how marine mammals conserve oxygen and adapt to pressure …

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The root of microplastics in plants

[ad_1] By Kelsey Adkisson Newswise – Over the past decade, scientists have been striving to understand the impacts of microplastics. With the breaking of plastic bottles, the washing of the seven billion fleece jackets in the world or the microspheres in facial cleansers, microplastics are accumulating. How they affect living …

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Reduction of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels due to COVID-19 detected by atmospheric observations

[ad_1] Newswise – Monitoring anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions using atmospheric observations is a major policy-making challenge, such as the Paris Agreement. Huge atmospheric observation networks consisting of a variety of platforms including satellites have been developed to monitor regional / national scale changes in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The outbreak …

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