SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
Climate Change and Global Forests
After five years of data collection, one of the biggest citizen-science projects ever conducted concludes this month. The wealth of information gathered will help researchers to understand how climate change is affecting forests.
In other environmental news, a pair of gravity-monitoring satellites finds groundwater levels have dropped in many places across the globe over the past nine years. This trend raises concerns that farmers are pumping too much water out of the ground in dry regions.
For years, San Francisco's Ocean Beach has been under assault by such powerful surf that a fierce winter storm can scour away 25 feet of bluff in just days. The strategy has been simple: drop huge rocks and mounds of sand to protect the nearby Great Highway and the sewer pipes underneath from being destroyed by the crashing waves. But as the enormous rocks have piled up, so too have the demands that the city get rid of it all and let the coastline retreat naturally.
New species of anemones, predatory sea stars, and piles of hairy-chested yeti crabs have been discovered around deep-sea vents in the Antarctic. Researchers say it is "almost like a sight from another planet."
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