Ecology

Calculating sea level rise from climate change Is a quirky, complex task

Some 95 percent of catalogued species in one family of Hawaiian land snails could already be extinct, and similar rates of invertebrate extinction could be happening around the world. Christopher Intagliata reports

The EPA is now scrambling to mitigate the mess it created when agency workers inadvertently unleashed a pool of wastewater from an abandoned gold mine

A rainy science project from Science Buddies

Extra iron may help life in the ocean flourish

A single-point mutation in corn's ancestor teosinte got rid of the hard shell that used to encase every kernel 

The blooms off the U.S. West Coast may become more frequent

Some 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater have poured from a defunct Colorado gold mine into local streams since a team of EPA workers accidentally triggered the spill last week

Researchers have developed a new ecofriendly sunscreen molecule that protects against both UV-A and UV-B rays, and could also be used to create more durable paints and plastics. Christopher Intagliata reports

A team of U.S. regulators probing contamination at a Colorado gold mine accidentally released a million gallons of orange-hued waste water containing sediment and metals into a local river system

Microbes 2,500 meters below the seafloor in Japan are most closely related to bacterial groups that thrive in forest soils on land, suggesting that they might be descendants of ones that survived when their terrestrial habitat was flooded 20 million years ago

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