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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.

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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific....

April 2018

A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.

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Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification is sometimes called “climate change’s equally evil twin,”...

April 2018