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Earth could experience a 7th mass extinction, not the 6th – ‘A real decrease in the abundance of organisms’

New research indicates that a mass extinction occurred 550 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period. Message from creatures 550 million years old to the present. Earth is currently in the midst of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year. New research suggests that environmental changes caused the first such event in recorded …

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New study shows how modified clay can fight red tide organisms

New study shows how modified clay can fight red tide organisms

Fish swimming under a red tide bloom off Costa Rica © UCSB Red tides can wreak havoc on marine ecosystems and are becoming a global problem. Currently, the primary remediation technology used for large-scale red tide control is spraying modified clay (MC) onto the surface of water affected by red tides. However, MC dosage is …

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