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As more and more of our little blue home is explored, it reveals even more layers from the endless depths of the secrets it holds, and the songs it sings. Or as it is in the case of the Caribbean sea, it whistles a tune that only a giant can hear, as an ocean modeling study has recently learned.

While modeling ocean currents in the Caribbean Sea, researchers from the University of Liverpool found that something didn’t add up: their models kept revealing pressure oscillations across the basin that they couldn’t explain, results that stood out in stark contrast to what was originally expected.
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While there has been a great deal of attention placed on the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder, the bees that are affected by CCD are commercial honeybees, with known populations that have numbers that can be easily quantified. However, the pollination provided by wild bees is also important to the growth cycle of crops, and supplements the job done by commercial honeybees. But as their hives aren’t monitored by beekeepers, a loss in their numbers aren’t as immediately noticed.
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