NSU researcher part of team studying impact of rising sea temperatures on marine life
Team studied underwater heatwave impactsCredit: Victor Huertas FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. - Global warming or climate change. It doesn't matter what ...
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Reef fish futures foretold
Credit: Victor Huertas. An international group of scientists is predicting markedly different outcomes for different species of coral reef fishes ...
How did Florida fail to respond to a coral disease epizootic and what’s to follow?
Credit: William Precht By 2020, massive losses of large populations of corals have been observed throughout Florida and into the ...
Major discovery helps explain coral bleaching
Credit: Nils Rädecker Corals, like all animals, must eat to live. The problem is that most corals grow in tropical ...
The surprises of color evolution
Credit: Casper van der Kooi / University of Groningen Nature is full of colour. For flowers, displaying colour is primarily ...
Scientists show impact of human activity on bird species
Credit: Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com) Scientists have shown where bird species would exist in the absence of human activity under research ...
Street trees close to the home may reduce the risk of depression
Researchers show positive effect of urban nature on mental healthCredit: Philipp Kirschner Depression, especially in urban areas, is on the ...
Nuclear war could trigger big El Niño and decrease seafood
Unprecedented warming in equatorial Pacific Ocean could last up to seven yearsCredit: Joshua Coupe A nuclear war could trigger an ...
Shift in caribou movements may be tied to human activity
Geologists track caribou using antlers, isotopesCredit: Colleen Kelley/UC Creative Human activities might have shifted the movement of caribou in and ...
AI trained to read electric vehicle charging station reviews to find infrastructure gaps
Credit: Ha et al./Patterns Although electric vehicles that reduce greenhouse gas emissions attract many drivers, the lack of confidence in ...
Ageing dams pose growing threat: UN
By 2050, most of humanity will live downstream of large dams built in the 20th century; Increasingly expensive to maintain, ...
Making protein ‘superfood’ from marine algae
Progress in processing single-cell organisms from the seaCredit: Flinders University Marine microalgae-based cellular agriculture is a promising new way to ...
A large number of gray whales are starving and dying in the eastern North Pacific
It is now the third year that gray whales have been found in very poor condition or dead in large ...
The downward trend: Nature’s decline risks our quality of life
Scientists conducted a sweeping review of nature's contributions to humans in order to present a clear breakdown of global trends ...
Natural hazard events and national risk reduction measures unconnected
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt Countries where massive natural hazard events occur frequently are not more likely than others to make changes ...
World’s largest lakes reveal climate change trends
Credit: Karl Bosse/MTRI NASA-funded research on the 11 largest freshwater lakes in the world coupled field and satellite observations to ...
Scientists discover how the potentially oldest coral reefs in the Mediterranean developed
Credit: ICM-CSIC, University of Southampton A new study from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC, Spain) and the National ...
As oceans warm, large fish struggle
New tool gauges impacts of warming waters on over 200 fish speciesCredit: Credit: Ludovic Lhotte Warming ocean waters could reduce ...
European eels – one gene pool fits all
Credit: Anders Asp, SLU European eels spawn in the subtropical Sargasso Sea but spend most of their adult life in ...
Climate-related species extinction possibly mitigated by newly discovered effect
According to a new study, future climate-related species extinction could be less severe than predictions based only on the current ...