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Ecosystem
An ecosystem refers to all living and nonliving features of a particular physical location. This includes living organisms as well as non living things, like weather, that interact with one another.
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OCT 31, 2024Earth & The Environment
How can researchers help bolster the resilience of marine ecosystems because of climate change? This is what a recent st ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 23, 2024Earth & The Environment
What influence do global environmental stressors have on the ability of an ecosystem to withstand these stresses and reb ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 21, 2024Plants & Animals
How does habitat diversity influence biodiversity and food webs? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes t ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 26, 2024Earth & The Environment
In late 2023, scientists announced that they had found numerous rivers in the Brooks Range of Alaska that were turning o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 27, 2024Earth & The Environment
PFAS seemed like an incredibly useful invention in the 1930s but we have since learned how dangerous these chemicals can ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 15, 2024Earth & The Environment
Can climatologists predict the future of climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 14, 2024Earth & The Environment
An analysis of satellite records has revealed that over the past 30 years, Greenland has lost about 28,707 square kilome ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 11, 2024Earth & The Environment
Earth once hosted many massive creatures called megafauna, and humans drove the extinction of many. That seems to have c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 07, 2024Earth & The Environment
California's Central Valley is a vital agricultural region. The San Joaquin Valley sits in its souther portion, and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 05, 2024Earth & The Environment
What impact do algae have on the Earth’s atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in Global Change Biolog ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 31, 2024Earth & The Environment
Last year, drought in the Amazon caused utter devastation. Vast amounts of vegetation dried out, fires burned towns so b ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 24, 2024Earth & The Environment
How do microplastics impact marine ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in PLoS One hopes to address as a t ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 15, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Little sacs can bud from cells, and they are known as extracellular vesicles. These little sacs can contain many molecul ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2023Microbiology
Rotifers are a type of microscopic zooplankton that lives in freshwater ecosystems and oceans around the world. Ne resea ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 09, 2023Earth & The Environment
Salt distribution in the ocean has a significant influence on the regulation of the Earth's climate, according to new re ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 09, 2023Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in AGU Advances examines how the conservation and protection of two Alaskan forests, Tongass an ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 01, 2023Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment examines the human impact of salt on the environment, ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 20, 2023Earth & The Environment
Hannah Lukasik is a second-year Hydrology Master of Science student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences (GPHS ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScOCT 18, 2023Microbiology
People have been eating bread for at least 14,000 years, and for most of human history, that bread was made with a sourd ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 10, 2023Genetics & Genomics
In the past few years, the H5N1 bird flu has led to the deaths of millions of wild and farmed birds around the world. It ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 29, 2023Earth & The Environment
Mara Nutt (they/them/theirs) is a Hydrology Master’s Degree student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 22, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
When a scientists is working with RNA in the lab, they have to take a lot of precautions because RNA degrades so easily. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 22, 2023Earth & The Environment
The world needs metals, especially as we transition to renewable forms of energy that require elements like lithium.Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 21, 2023Earth & The Environment
Some scientists have suggested that a sixth mass extinction is underway on Earth. A new study has confirmed those findin ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
OCT 31, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How can researchers help bolster the resilience of marine ecosystems because of climate change? This is what a recent st
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 23, 2024
Earth & The Environment
What influence do global environmental stressors have on the ability of an ecosystem to withstand these stresses and reb
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 21, 2024
Plants & Animals
How does habitat diversity influence biodiversity and food webs? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes t
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 26, 2024
Earth & The Environment
In late 2023, scientists announced that they had found numerous rivers in the Brooks Range of Alaska that were turning o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 27, 2024
Earth & The Environment
PFAS seemed like an incredibly useful invention in the 1930s but we have since learned how dangerous these chemicals can
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 15, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Can climatologists predict the future of climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 14, 2024
Earth & The Environment
An analysis of satellite records has revealed that over the past 30 years, Greenland has lost about 28,707 square kilome
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 11, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Earth once hosted many massive creatures called megafauna, and humans drove the extinction of many. That seems to have c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 07, 2024
Earth & The Environment
California's Central Valley is a vital agricultural region. The San Joaquin Valley sits in its souther portion, and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 05, 2024
Earth & The Environment
What impact do algae have on the Earth’s atmosphere? This is what a recent study published in Global Change Biolog
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 31, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Last year, drought in the Amazon caused utter devastation. Vast amounts of vegetation dried out, fires burned towns so b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 24, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How do microplastics impact marine ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in PLoS One hopes to address as a t
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 15, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Little sacs can bud from cells, and they are known as extracellular vesicles. These little sacs can contain many molecul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2023
Microbiology
Rotifers are a type of microscopic zooplankton that lives in freshwater ecosystems and oceans around the world. Ne resea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 09, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Salt distribution in the ocean has a significant influence on the regulation of the Earth's climate, according to new re
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 09, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in AGU Advances examines how the conservation and protection of two Alaskan forests, Tongass an
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 01, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment examines the human impact of salt on the environment,
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 20, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Hannah Lukasik is a second-year Hydrology Master of Science student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences (GPHS
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 18, 2023
Microbiology
People have been eating bread for at least 14,000 years, and for most of human history, that bread was made with a sourd
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 10, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
In the past few years, the H5N1 bird flu has led to the deaths of millions of wild and farmed birds around the world. It
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 29, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Mara Nutt (they/them/theirs) is a Hydrology Master’s Degree student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 22, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
When a scientists is working with RNA in the lab, they have to take a lot of precautions because RNA degrades so easily.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 22, 2023
Earth & The Environment
The world needs metals, especially as we transition to renewable forms of energy that require elements like lithium.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 21, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Some scientists have suggested that a sixth mass extinction is underway on Earth. A new study has confirmed those findin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch