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Hundreds of dead crabs on the beach at Seaton Carew, Hartlepool in 2021 https://twitter.com/12BBYTHESEASIDE/status/1452164992845983744 Paul Grainger (permissions granted)

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What’s causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast?

A new study points to pyridine pollution as the most likely culprit behind the deaths of crustaceans, with dredging in the river Tees a possible source

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Artist's impression of three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star

Space

Earth's algae and moss could survive under the light of another star

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Saturn's moon Enceladus

Space

Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life

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Most big coastal cities have areas sinking faster than sea level rise

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TOP IMAGE - Jason deCaires Taylor, Rubicon, 2016. Picture credit: @jasondecairestaylor(page 181) Stainless steel, pH-neutral cement, basalt and aggregates,installation view, Museo Atl?ntico, Las Coloradas, Lanzarote, Atlantic Ocean

Humans

Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world

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Illustration of a ribosome

Life

Self-replicating protein factories are a step towards artificial life

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We need to act now to give future generations a better world

Humans

We need to act now to give future generations a better world

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Life

Two new books about sharks reveal how and why we should conserve them

Culture

A broad cowtail stingray (Pastinachus ater)

Life

Watch stingrays make odd clicking sounds as they glide through the sea

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Rock pooling with Helen Scales

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Rock pool science with marine biologist Helen Scales

From seaweed to starfish, fish, crabs and molluscs, there is a teeming ecosystem holed up under rocks at low tide. We went exploring with shell expert, Helen Scales

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Environment

Feedback loop in Greenland amplified ice melt from warm weather

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Life

Polar bears adapting to climate change by hunting on freshwater ice

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Physics

Is life the result of the laws of entropy?

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Technology

Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells

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