Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This season give your family an adventurous gift that lasts all year — a membership to the Academy of Natural Sciences. All membership dues directly support our mission to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it. Don’t miss out on our best deal of the year.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 27, 2023

The small dark American eels ( Anguilla rostrata ) that are currently making their way through our local freshwater rivers and streams actually had their start out in the Atlantic Ocean’s deep saltwater. As they are tossed about the waves, the leptocephali spend their time feeding on organic ocean detritus.

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Ocean Environmental Science 52

Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 27, 2023

It lives at least 200 meters under the ocean surface where sunlight is scarce, making herbivory nearly impossible. Tobias Tagliaferro/ANS Only one other species in this group, called Trigonulina ornata , lives in the Atlantic Ocean. canaliculata is a septibranch, which means that it is a carnivore. Trigonulina canaliculata.

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Environmental Science Ocean 2024 105

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2022

This summer the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will lead a campaign to map heat and air quality in Philadelphia, working with community scientists so that residents have a stronger voice in the planning and implementation of climate change-preparedness strategies. . The other communities are Boulder, Colo.;

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Air Pollution Climate Change Natural Sciences Cooling 88

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 18, 2022

Prior to his ascension to the throne, Albert I, Prince of Monaco spent his youth sailing the ocean, first as a navigator in the Spanish Navy and later in the French Navy during the Franco-Prussian War. Their research even went to depths as far as 6,000 meters below the ocean’s surface! Pilsbry and elected on Jan. Seen below from vol.

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Ocean 52

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The discussion includes insight into how legal frameworks can create a variety of restoration projects that have far-reaching benefits for both humanity and ecosystem health.

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2023 Climate Change Natural Resources Law 59

Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 31, 2022

Head of the bony-eared assfish, a deep-sea species of cusk-eel found in tropical and subtropical oceans. The bony-eared assfish is a deep-sea species of cusk-eel found in tropical and subtropical oceans down to 4,415 meters (14,485 ft). Photo by Mark Sabaj/ANS.

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Ocean 119

Academy of Natural Sciences

AUGUST 4, 2022

His “parents” were among 50 community scientists helping with the Philadelphia Urban Heat Mapping Campaign , a study in which the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University collaborated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Atmosphere Air Pollution Ocean Natural Sciences 52

Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 20, 2021

Although the three 17-year cicada species occur across the eastern half of North America (from Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean) the different populations of the species don’t have the adults emerging in the same 17-year cycle. This year they keep calling it Brood X. What does that mean? To read more posts in the cicada series, visit.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 21, 2021

With ocean temperatures over 90°F off the Florida coast, Carl strengthened from a Category-1 with 80-mph winds to a Category-5 with 160-mph winds, in only 36 hours. Sea-level rise caused by the warming ocean means that there is no beach at high tide at several Jersey and Delaware coast points.

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Climate Change Sea Level Climate Scientist Ocean 130

Academy of Natural Sciences

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For native plants, birds and wildlife that live in or near these streams, it is like drinking a big glass of ocean water when you’re thirsty. All this salt runoff also depletes oxygen in local waterways, inhibiting a fish’s ability to breathe in the water and encouraging algae blooms.

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Ocean Environmental Science 128

Academy of Natural Sciences

MAY 16, 2022

If we don’t take care of our forests, rivers and oceans, we will ultimately lose everything. AAQ: As someone who loves birds it’s very important that we focus on all animals, invertebrates, reptiles, mammals, etc. Conservation too because without these various ecosystems we lose so much wildlife.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It is a powerful and surprisingly moving tribute to a now forever missing part of the natural world. It once ranged widely on ocean edges as far south as northern Spain and along the coastlines of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland and Great Britain.

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2011 Ocean Environmental Science 64

Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Amazon Rainforest is home to the longest river on Earth that originates high in the Andes mountains as glacial melt and then crosses the entire continent to drain into the Atlantic Ocean. This web of rivers has a known effect on some Amazonian birds and primates.

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Rainforest Deforestation Ocean Conservation 93

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

Fish farming is one way suppliers to keep up with the demand without overfishing the oceans. Note: Billions of people around the world rely on seafood as a main protein, and overfishing is a serious problem. Reduce food waste. What’s wrong with leftovers?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 4, 2021

Li Shuo, senior global policy advisor on climate, biodiversity and oceans at Greenpeace East Asia, compared the draft to a Paris climate agreement with “only the 1.5C The groups want this added to the framework’s overall mission statement, Krueger said. Other campaigners were far more critical of the draft. goal and nothing else”.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In the summer of 2022, Philadelphia was one of just 16 cities worldwide selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to collect heat data used to map the city’s heat islands. In Philadelphia, urban trees address a wide variety of goals for multiple city agencies.

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Conservation Natural Sciences Carbon Emissions Cooling 113

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 19, 2022

Although much of the ocean’s abyss seems dark, still and silent, water is nevertheless always flowing, and in specific directions. Much of this water cools as it flows towards the poles, becoming denser and sinking to the ocean floor. Vast, slow currents called conveyors help create and govern the climate we experience.

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Ocean 2005 Cooling Government 96

Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The first project in the Academy of Natural Sciences’ yearlong focus on water renews our appreciation for the vital element of water through artworks that combine the marvel and insight of both scientific and artistic inquiry. of Natural Sciences and?Drexel Nature’s Hidden Gems ? . Invisible World of Water ?will

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Natural Sciences 2013 Atmosphere Ocean 74

Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

Diatoms are found abundantly in almost every aquatic environment: oceans, lakes and wetlands, too. Because the frustule is heavier than the water surrounding it, after a diatom dies, the glass skeletal remains slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean or lake and become part of the sediment.

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Ocean Environmental Science 74

Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

More closely related to arachnids such as spiders and scorpions, these ancient creatures, with their iconic shells and long spiny tails, have lived in the coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean for millions of years. Red knots Calidris canuta , with horseshoe crabs, Delaware Bay, NJ © Doug Wechsler/VIREO.

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Endangered Species Act Climate Change Conservation Environmental Science 104

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 1, 2021

As a society, we’re addicted to plastic, but the good news is that we can choose to reduce our use so we can have cleaner streets, healthier wildlife and less polluted rivers and oceans. 18 billion pounds of plastic waste ends up in the ocean each year. Less than 10% of all plastics in the U.S. get recycled.

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Biodegradable Ocean Recycling Law 137

Academy of Natural Sciences

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Because harmful emissions can make their way into the ground and water systems, these pollutants also contribute to ocean acidification, agricultural troubles and ecological destruction.

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Ground-Level Ozone Air Pollution Carbon Monoxide Ozone 86

Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 1, 2022

We’re drowning in plastic, with 18 billion pounds of it ending up in the ocean every year. And 3 trillion cigarette butts — their filters made of plastic — are carelessly tossed, while millions of rolls of plastic food wrap, typically used only once, are discarded by U.S. households annually.

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Waste Ocean Environmental Science 96

Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 2, 2022

Plastic water bottles create an enormous amount of litter — 18 billion pounds of plastic waste ends up in the ocean each year with devastating results on wildlife. Wherever you live, there are sure to be many others who are keeping our rivers, streams, lakes and oceans healthy by cleaning up. Brian Yurasits/Unsplash.

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Waste Clean Water Act Ocean Climate Change 52

Environmental Science

AUGUST 7, 2018

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.

Technology 59

Technology Technology Nuclear Power Environmental Science 59

ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. Stansbury’s undergraduate degree is in human ecology and natural science and her master’s degree is in developmental sociology. This definition prohibits the U.S.

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