Invasive plant threatens livelihoods in Colombia’s largest coastal wetland

Colombia's Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta wetland is facing an environmental crisis due to an invasive plant native to Asia ...
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Australia is building a “living library” for ocean species

Genetic "libraries" that deal in living organisms sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. In Australia, these ...
C&EN

Novel Insights into the Promoted Accumulation of Nitro-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Roots of Legume Plants

College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Green Agriculture in Northwestern China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural ...

Warming seas can threaten the hidden relationship that supports seagrass meadows

But not all microbes are helpful. Some produce sulphide, a compound that can be toxic to seagrass roots when it accumulates ...
The New York Times

How China Is Building Its Next Outpost at Sea

This is Antelope Reef, home to China’s latest artificial island — and one of its largest — in contested waters of the South China Sea. Satellite images show dozens of dredgers, which grind up the ...
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This rare marine plant generates energy without water using artificial wind and works like 30,000 trees over 12 years nonstop

It sounds almost impossible at first. A “marine plant” that generates energy… without using water. No waves. No tides. Not even wind in the traditional sense. And yet, a new project in Japan is doing ...