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• ·Potential Western Atlantic spawning area found for Atlantic bluefin tuna
• ·Mathematical advance in describing waves
• ·Wastewater treatment plants significant source of microplastics in rivers
• ·Salt marshes will persist despite rising seas, study predicts
• ·Ocean acidification already slowing coral reef growth
• ·Antarctic ice sheet is more vulnerable to carbon dioxide than expected
• ·Study shows North Atlantic Ocean CO2 storage doubled over last decade
• ·World is embracing clean energy, says expert
• ·Bachelor's paradise: Female turtles outnumbering males due to warming temps
• ·Fatty acids from genetically modified oilseed crops could replace fish oil
• ·A cancer's surprise origins caught in action
• ·NASA, NOAA analyses reveal record-shattering global warm temperatures in 2015
• ·Earth's tilt influences climate change
• ·Rising carbon dioxide emissions pose 'intoxication' threat to world's ocean fish
• ·Spread of algal toxin through marine food web broke records in 2015