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Green sea turtles on the beach at Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, moving towards the sea

The Sunny, Biodiverse Wildlife Inhabiting The Beach

What would a holiday be without a beach? Without the gentle lapping of waves upon the feet, the grains of sand on the skin and the necessary hermit crab pinching the unsuspecting ear while sun-bathing? For most, it would probably be a very ordinary one. Especially with the changes aflicted

SEM image of coccolithophores with calcite coccolith shells in ocean

Sculpting Marble In Nature - The Effects Of Coccolith Formation

The world and its living inhabitants are connected, with geophysical processes ubiquitously affecting natural ecosystems and vice versa. Over the span of millennia and eons, the ponderous drift of tectonic plates might alter the size and location of continents around the oceans to separate populations of the same species from

The Earth rotating in its orbit and geomagnetism

Our Curling Earth And Its Magnetic Field

In our solar system, it is a well known fact that Earth is the third closest planet to the sun, dragged around it in the distinct eliptical orbit that gives us different seasons. To the every-day viewer, its yearly trawl around the sun is a slow one, steadily travelling around