by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
In a piece for Nautilus, Sarah DeWeerdt writes about the long-term impact of whaling on the deep-sea ecosystems that depend on “whale fall” — whale corpses that settle in the depths, bringing massive amounts of nutrients with them. These fallen cetaceans nourish...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
Rachel Tompa covers new research for the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center on the inordinate cancer risk suffered by people with particular environmental exposures due to their professions (such as firefighters and farmers) or bad luck...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
For High Country News, Sarah Trent focuses on the way that Vancouver, Wash., city officials communicated with the public about the results of their tests on the city’s water for the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS and the risks they pose, especially to young kids....
by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For the Allen Institute, Jake Siegel writes about how populations of T cells change over the lifespan, shedding new light on why we all become more vulnerable to infection as we age. Using a new method developed at the institute, the researchers discovered a new...
by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For bioGraphic, Ashley Braun brings us to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas to learn about how the North Fork Mono Tribe is revitalizing cultural burning practices to encourage the growth of culturally significant native plants, control pests and invasive species,...
by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Politico, Eric Scigliano writes about the many local geological hazards that are not, somehow, accounted for in FEMA’s new National Risk Index. The ambitious federal project intends to map disaster risks across the country to aid in the allocation of funds for...
