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Ready for the cutest 15 seconds of your week? Watch this sea otter mama twirling her fluffy pup in the water! 🦦😍 And if you have ever want red light therapy tools, do not miss the Bon Charge event happening NOW that makes it easier than ever.

ECL TRIVIA: What is the name of the layer of the ocean where most sunlight-driven photosynthesis happens? (Answer below)

🚫 SEATTLE DATA CENTERS: Seattle’s approved a one-year ban on new data centers, stating concerns with soaring energy demand, water use, rising utility costs, and community environmental impacts. Learn more about the city council’s UNANIMOUS decision. 

🫎 EAST COAST RESTORATION: The wild west of the USA is often thought of for its iconic wilderness, get inspired by THIS NEW BOOK celebrating the improved and flourishing fauna of the East Coast, including recovered elk, moose, otters and more.

🌊 MARINE SNOW: Did you know extreme deep-sea pressure squeezes nutrients from sinking organic matter? Denmark just released this revelation HERE on July 12th. Nutrient-rich “marine snow” feeds deep-ocean microbes and could radically reshape how we understand Earth's carbon cycle.

🫐 FROZEN BLUEBERRIES: One of my favorite antioxidants: organic blueberries! New research shows thawed-from-frozen blueberries release up to 3X more anthocyanins (linked to brain health and anti-inflammation) than fresh ones. Wild, right? Learn about why ice crystals thawing is the key to better-for-you blueberries HERE.

👀 NOT REAL RESEARCH: Artificial intelligence models are detecting patterns in complex medical studies. An Australian team put millions of studies through a specialized AI “filter,” revealing over 250k cancer research papers that could be “fakes,” connected to so called “paper mills” responsible for industrialized low-quality or completely false research publications.

🦠 HEALING IN 24 HOURS: Scientists have discovered fasting for just 24 hours increases the abundance of a specialized bacteria that “puts intestinal cells into a state that supports regeneration.” It’s “almost like training the cells with an emergency preparedness plan,” one of the study leaders says HERE.

Red light therapy sounds futuristic until you realize it's just specific wavelengths of light doing what sunlight has always done for our cells. BON CHARGE makes some of the most science-backed devices around, running bioactive red and near-infrared light at 630, 660, and 850nm to support skin, recovery, and sleep.

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What is the name of the layer of the ocean where most sunlight-driven photosynthesis happens?

Answer: The photic zone. It is the sunlit upper region where algae and plankton thrive, forming the base of many food webs.