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Nature and environment · Nov 14, 2026Chesapeake Bay: catch less menhaden, but leave enough for whom?Caps will fall in 2027 and 2028. Behind the tonnages, disagreement persists over food for predators, fishing seasons and jobs.↗
Nature and environment · Nov 14, 2026Gulf of Panama: what the missed cooling of 2025 revealsA study documents a sharp reduction in cold-water upwelling in 2025. Wind, nutrients and reefs: understanding the mechanism without confusing risk with measured damage.↗
Nature and environment · Nov 14, 2026In Alaska, the salmon crisis goes beyond the conflict over trawlersThe decline of chinook salmon combines an ecological crisis with fishing conflicts. Research on the Yukon and the 2026 commercial figures shed light on two different realities.↗
Science · Nov 12, 2026Undersea geothermal energy: what Adélie’s 8.7 seconds showAt 1,500 metres beneath the Pacific, the Adélie prototype briefly produced more electricity than it consumed. The result sheds light on the challenges that separate an undersea demonstration from sustainable geothermal power generation.↗
Nature and environment · Nov 12, 2026Can the SS United States become a marine habitat?The SS United States was sunk off the coast of Florida to become an artificial reef. A hull can provide a surface and shelter for marine life, but this does not mean that coral reefs have been restored or that biodiversity has increased.↗
Basic science · Nov 11, 2026How double subduction may have accelerated the opening of the Gulf of CaliforniaGeodynamic models suggest that a reorganisation of subduction zones in the western Pacific may have helped accelerate the opening of the Gulf of California, already weakened by its tectonic history.↗
Space · Nov 10, 2026Olympus Mons: how Mars built a giant volcanoOlympus Mons owes its immense size to the gradual construction of a shield volcano. Its measurements, caldera and frost observed by probes reveal three distinct aspects of this Martian feature.↗
Books · Nov 8, 2026‘The Childhood of Ruins’: ordinary lives on the brink of upheavalIn ‘The Childhood of Ruins’, Pascal Rabaté adapts a novel by Erich Kästner and places the ordinary lives of Berliners on the threshold of the political rupture of 1932.↗
Nature and environment · Nov 8, 2026Wastewater: what treatment removes and what can still get throughFrom the toilet to the river, wastewater passes through several treatment stages. But treatment does not make water fit to drink or remove every substance: the sewer network and rainfall matter too.↗
Basic science · Nov 8, 2026Biosphere 2: how soil and concrete altered the oxygen balanceThe fall in oxygen levels in Biosphere 2 revealed an unexpected mechanism: the soil consumed oxygen while the concrete absorbed some of the carbon dioxide. A lesson in the limits of closed ecosystems.↗
Nature and environment · Nov 8, 2026After ‘Jaws’: seeing sharks differentlySteven Spielberg’s film has left a lasting mark on the popular imagination of sharks. To distinguish this fear from reality, we need to separate cinematic storytelling, documented incidents and conservation data.↗
Nature and environment · Nov 7, 2026North Atlantic right whales: calf identified late in CanadaPhotographed near Anticosti on 25 September, a calf probably born during the 2025-2026 season was identified after the images were analysed. The case shows how photographic catalogues refine the figures, without making counts exhaustive.↗
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