University of Virginia researchers counted more than 260 million dead trees within 10 km of US coasts and Great Lakes shores in 2012-2023 aerial images. How much forest carbon that costs depends on what grows in the dead trees' place, a University of Plymouth researcher said.
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Plymouth scientists rank the Adriatic, Baltic and western Mediterranean as the European seas most at risk from artificial light at night. Their method is the first attempt at a status test for night light, which the EU's 2008 marine directive lacks as it comes up for review.
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A Plymouth-led team says the sediment mosaics it filmed are not fully described by the EUNIS habitat classes that guide UK marine management, on ground left free of bottom-towed gear for more than ten years.
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Plymouth and British Antarctic Survey researchers diluted the water around one abundant Antarctic amphipod, which held its calcium but lost overall ionic balance, a single-species result now asked to carry a claim about the global ocean.
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Almost 220,000 tonnes of plastic coats subsea pipelines and umbilicals on the UK shelf. Leave the kit in place, the authors say, and about 120,000 tonnes stays to abrade.
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