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Through the Sands of Time: Giant Clams as Paleoclimate Timekeepers

Academy of Natural Sciences

Or maybe your mind takes a darker turn, imagining a colossal creature lurking in the depths of the ocean, capable of swallowing you whole. The elevated acidity of the ocean accelerates the dissolution of calcium carbonate and reduces aragonite saturation , posing a significant threat to these organisms. Giant clam ( T. Giant clam ( T.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

These early thinkers were Thales (5) who created natural philosophy and theorized that seismological events such as earthquakes had a natural cause (correct) but assumed (wrongly) that landmasses were giant rafts that reacted to ocean ripples which caused the quakes. He was wrong about this too but Anaximander had another idea.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Big-ticket Interior rules: The Interior Department does not anticipate even providing advanced notice of a rule modifying the “fees, rents, royalties, and bonding requirements” for fossil fuel leasing until September and does not anticipate a proposed rule until May 2022.

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