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In October, scientists from the U.S. Navy published a study that found that marine macroalgae in Hawai‘i , such as seaweed, produce sounds during photosynthesis. 
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Warmer air and water temperatures, combined with overseas tropical storms, delivered an ecologically desirable but olfactory disagreeable gift to the shores of Laguna Beach this summer: copious amounts of kelp.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
"Wracks"...."wracks!" "Wracks!"
Can we please get an editor in here?!? It is "wrack" people. While I sen to have long given up the hope that writers actually know something about science, there is still a thing called a dictionary.
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October 21, 2014 12:22 AM
"Wracks"...."wracks!" "Wracks!"
Can we please get an editor in here?!? It is "wrack" people. While I sen to have long given up the hope that writers actually know something about science, there is still a thing called a dictionary. |
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El Niño years can have a big impact on the littlest plants in the ocean, and NASA scientists are studying the relationship between the two. Ocean colo
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A study of grasslands on six continents suggests a way to counteract the human-made overdose of fertilizer that threatens the biodiversity of the world's prairies. The solution originates in nature: let grazing animals crop fast growing grasses, which have a competitive advantage in an over-fertilized world. The grasses block sunlight from ground level, but herbivores make light available to other plants.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Awesome study. The patterns we have seen in coastal California grasslands are also going on across the globe.
If you are new to our California grasslands, check out our heroes of native grass (or at least the natives that have survived this past century of fertilization, etc.): http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/ajob-ses031014.php
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