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Ocean Acidification & Future Deep Sea Coral Reef Collapse

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Ocean acidification risks deep-sea reef collapse (News Release, University of Edinburgh; September 16, 2020) https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2020/ocean-acidification-risks-deep-sea-reef-collapse#:~:text=The%20underlying%20structures%20of%20the,rising%20levels%20of%20carbon%20dioxide. Featured Research Article: Crumbling Reefs and Cold-Water Coral Reef Habitat Loss in a Future Ocean:  Evidence of “Coralporosis” as an Indicator of Habitat Integrity (HENNIGE et al. , 2020) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00668/full By NOAA,  Public Domain;  Link By HeikeM, Public Domain;  Link

Face Shield or Face Mask to Stop the Spread of COVID-19?

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Face Shield or Face Mask to Stop the Spread of COVID-19? : FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science researchers illustrate why face shields alone don’t work and how a face mask with a valve allows droplets to pass through the exhale valve unfiltered. (Gisele GALUSIAN, Florida Atlantic University ; September 1, 2020) Featured Research Article : Visualizing droplet dispersion for face shields and masks with exhalation valves (VERMA  et al. , 2020) https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/5.0022968 Also... Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by aerosols, the rational use of masks, and the protection of healthcare workers from COVID-19 (SOMMERSTEIN et al. , 2020) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336106/pdf/13756_2020_Article_763.pdf By NeoBatFreak, CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link