“The new research suggests that some seafloor massive sulfide rocks have physical and chemical properties that could make them behave very differently from comparable mineral deposits mined on land,” warns a press release from the USGS.
Coral reefs near seabird colonies are generally healthier, thanks to the nutrients that birds deposit in their guano. It’s one reason tropical islands and atolls are biodiversity hot spots in the vast Pacific Ocean.
Employers are navigating a flood of errors and low-quality work that are sapping employee time, raising privacy and security risks and pushing up costs.
Research […] details how elephant carcasses shaped the savanna up to almost a decade after their deaths, finding that they triggered bare spots on the landscape before transforming into nutrient-rich hubs of vegetative growth and feeding.
He may have died a slippery paranoiac, selling freeze-dried meat to end-times radicals. But he helped convert the soul of the nation, albeit not to the creed he claimed to profess. His vision of life—opportunistic, false, pandering, exploitative, utterly without shame—is all around us.
Her coding work — translating equations into the MANIAC-approved language of holes punched on tape — led to the creation in 1955 of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem, named after the men who worked on the numerical experiment.
Within months or years, exposure to the [silicon dioxide] dust can cause a person to develop silicosis, a hardening and scarring of the lungs that gradually makes it harder and harder to breathe, and results in death. There is no cure. […] No masks or respirators were provided for the tunnel workers, but when executives and engineers entered the tunnel, they all wore respirators.