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Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns Date: January 14, 2025 Source: Lancaster University Summary: Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big ...

But seawater also has downsides. Saltwater corrodes firefighting equipment and may harm ecosystems, especially those like the chaparral shrublands around Los Angeles that aren’t normally exposed ...

While some fire hydrants in Los Angeles ran dry amid the extreme wildfires, people wondered if firefighters could use salt water from the ocean instead of depleting fresh water sources.

But seawater also has downsides. Saltwater corrodes firefighting equipment and may harm ecosystems, especially those like the chaparral shrublands around Los Angeles that aren’t normally exposed ...

A firefighting plane dumps water on one of the fires in the Los Angeles area in January 2025. Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images ...

But seawater also has downsides. Saltwater corrodes firefighting equipment and may harm ecosystems, especially those like the chaparral shrublands around Los Angeles that aren't normally exposed ...

Whether the water is salty or fresh doesn’t change this basic principle. But saltwater brings a host of complications that make it more trouble than it’s worth. “Saltwater is a soil ...

A worrying study published last month in Environmental Challenges claims that nearly two-thirds of the Great Salt Lake’s shrinkage is attributable to human use of river water that otherwise ...

When Harold Bell Lasseter died alone in the desert in 1931, he took secrets of a supposed vast gold-bearing reef in Central Australia with him. But his death wasn't the end of the story.