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Sperm whales may be among the largest predators in the ocean, but even these enormous hunters face a surprisingly simple problem when they rest: staying underwater. According to a study published in Current Biology, researchers have now found that the whales appear to release bubbles as they sleep, reducing their buoyancy just enough to remain suspended beneath the surface instead of drifting upwards.

Across the globe, there are approximately 200,000 to 275,000 glaciers that hold 69% of the world's fresh water. They are found in every continent except Australia and are in heavy concentrations in the Arctic, Alaska, and Antarctica along with high mountain ranges like the Himalayas and Andes.

A spray-based treatment may help avocado farmers reduce climate-related crop losses, according to new research from Israel. There is, however, an important caveat.

Governments have a crucial 30 to 50 year window to plan for rising sea levels using dependable computer models, before Antarctic ice melt becomes far harder to predict.

Every year, thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles appear along Odisha's shoreline after spending much of their lives travelling across the Indian Ocean. Their arrival is so regular that it has long raised the same question: do they return to the same stretch of coast after disappearing for decades, scientists have been trying to answer that mystery for years.

For decades, light and temperature have been regarded as the environmental signals that keep insects aligned with the passing day. Sunrise, sunset and shifting warmth have long been treated as the main forces that help regulate when animals move, feed or rest.

Field biologists made an ecological discovery in Damingshan National Nature Reserve in Guangxi, China. While surveying biodiversity in the mountains, they found an unknown amphibian that lives in the treetops and calls from the upper branches of the forest.

Scientists at RMIT University in Australia have built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of micro- and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise against some PFAS.

Scientists drilled 33 feet into ice and recovered a 2,000-year climate record, a frozen capsule that can reveal how the atmosphere breathed long before modern measurements.