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Northern Fulmar in flight

World’s most threatened seabirds visit remote plastic pollution hotspots

04 Jul 2023

Analysis of global tracking data for 77 species of petrel has revealed that a quarter of all plastics potentially encountered in their search for...

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‘Antisocial’ damselfish are scaring off cleaner fish customers – and this could contribute to coral reef breakdown

23 Feb 2023

Damselfish have been discovered to disrupt ‘cleaning services’ vital to the health of reefs. And climate change may mean this is only likely to get...

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Seahorse

Seahorses and the "onion world"

24 May 2012

Dr Amanda Vincent – one of the world’s leading experts on seahorses and their relatives – is spending a year at Cambridge’s Department of Geography...

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