Each winter, road salt is used as a de-icer and washes into freshwater streams.

Research from the Road Salt Project ( www.theroadsaltproject.com ) has shown that the levels of road salt found in streams can harm developing rainbow trout.

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New chapter by Ora E. Johannsson & Aleicia Holland on how anthropogenic activities modify the source, character and role of dissolved organic carbon in the black-water river, the Rio Negro, Amazonia.

Link: doi.org/10.1007/978-... in "The Future of Amazonian Aquatic Biota".

This air-breathing fish can take up CO2 via the gills and exhale it via the “lung”.

New publication by Chris Wood, Bernd Pelster & Adalberto Luis Val.

doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Please join us in welcoming UBC-Zoology’s newest Assistant Professor: Asher Leeks! @asherleeks.bsky.social

Today is Asher’s first day as an Assistant Professor of Evolution in the Department of Zoology and the @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca

Welcome Asher! 🙌🏽

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One way street: metals enter via carapace, leave via gills in crabs.

Paper by Anne Crémazy, Lygia S. Nogueira and Chris Wood

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...