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The Lakes That Beat Back An Invasive Species
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (333+ words) A 2014 netting survey found native salmonids recovering. Water-quality readings were similar before and after treatment, and surveys found comparable invertebrate diversity. Alaska Fish and Game now records the invasive northern pike population as successfully removed. The Indiana Department of Natural…...
The Creatures Waiting At The Bottom Of The Deep Sea
14+ hour, 54+ min ago (944+ words) WorldAtlas At the bottom of the deep sea, it seems the creatures get stranger the farther down they live. The Mariana Trench is about as deep as the ocean gets, bottoming out at Challenger Deep some 10,935 m (35,876 ft) below the…...
How Climate Change Is Warming The Great Lakes Faster Than The Oceans
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (833+ words) WorldAtlas The Great Lakes stretch so far that they feel almost oceanic when you're standing on the shoreline. Sadly, they have been warming faster than both the atmosphere and the oceans. Rising air temperatures, declining ice cover, and how heat…...
The Sea Levels Rising Fastest Along US Coasts
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (674+ words) Grand Isle sits near the mouth of the Mississippi River on a barrier island built largely from relatively young delta sediment. VIMS puts its post-1969 relative sea-level trend at roughly 8.2 millimeters per year, the highest rate among the locations in…...
How Hot Death Valley Actually Gets Compared To The Sahara
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (702+ words) WorldAtlas The Sahara is the planet's poster child for unbearable heat, the desert everyone reaches for whenever they need shorthand for "brutally hot." So here is a fact worth sitting with: the single hottest air temperature ever reliably recorded on…...
How Much Water The Colorado River Has Lost Since 2000
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (670+ words) WorldAtlas Since the year 2000, the Colorado River has been quietly living beyond its means, handing out more water than nature returns to it. So how much has it actually lost? The number is genuinely staggering, but the full story is…...
What Happens If The Snowpack Fails Two Years In A Row
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1392+ words) Here is what actually happens, in order, when the snow fails twice. Not a metaphor. Colorado's snowpack stores roughly 15 million acre-feet of water at its spring peak, which is a volume comparable to a major reservoir, and it releases that…...
Why There Are No Sharks In The Deepest Ocean
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (792+ words) WorldAtlas The Mariana Trench plunges about 35,876 feet into the Earth's crust at Challenger Deep, a dark, crushing abyss where the pressure exceeds eight tons per square inch and no sharks can survive. This point, the lowest on the planet's surface,…...
The National Forests With The Most Black Bears
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (570+ words) WorldAtlas Black bears are remarkably adaptable animals, but they remain closely tied to forests above all else. Thick cover gives them places to rest and raise cubs, while berries, nuts, insects, and wildlife found throughout the wooded landscape keep them…...
The Trees That Can Clone Themselves Into A Forest
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (1210+ words) worldatlas.com The process of creating a forest from seed can take decades or even centuries. But when trees have the ability to clone themselves, a forest can spring up in a few seasons. Botanists have cataloged roughly 60,000 tree species…...