Large summer ‘dead zone’ forecast for Chesapeake Bay after wet winter and spring
CAMBRIDGE, MD (JUNE 12, 2019)--Ecologists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the University of Michigan are ...
Tag: Marine/Freshwater Biology
Community knowledge can be as valuable as ecological knowledge in environmental decision-making
An understanding of community issues can be as valuable as knowing the ecology of an area when making environmental decisions, ...
Fifty years later, DDT lingers in lake ecosystems
Credit: Joshua Kurek To control pest outbreaks, airplanes sprayed more than 6,280 tons of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) onto forests in New ...
Climate change benefits for giant petrels
Credit: Richard Sherley Giant petrels will be "temporary" winners from the effects of climate change in the Antarctic region - ...
Why Noah’s ark won’t work
For ocean species to survive climate change, large populations neededCredit: Joshua Brown/UVM A Noah's Ark strategy will fail. In the ...
‘Shield’ of sea creature inspires materials that can handle their own impact
Credit: Purdue University video/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The mantis shrimp, one of the ocean's most ornery creatures, can ...
Penn State researchers to boost endangered Chesapeake logperch population
Credit: Amy Duke As fishes go, the Chesapeake logperch is hardly impressive. The yellow- to olive-colored member of the darter ...
First study of world’s largest marine stingray reveals long-distance migration
Scientists use images and videos submitted by tourists to track rare species in AfricaCredit: (c) Andrea Marshall, Marine Megafauna Foundation ...
Marine oil snow
UD's Andrew Wozniak investigates consequences of Deepwater Horizon oil spillCredit: Andrew Wozniak If you were able to stand on the ...
Tube anemone has the largest animal mitochondrial genome ever sequenced
Discovery by Brazilian and US researchers could change the classification of two species, which appear more akin to jellyfish than ...
Drug to treat malaria could mitigate hereditary hearing loss
Drug activates sensory proteins in aquatic model of human hearingCredit: CWRUSOM & PNAS The ability to hear depends on proteins ...
Skinny cod and grey seal reveals troubling changes to food web in the Baltic Sea
Credit: Olle Karlsson "It is important that you understand how the food web works when managing a fishery. It is ...
Life in Antarctica’s ice mirrors human disease
Credit: A. Dornburg The cooling of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, which began approximately 35 million years ago and gave ...
The mantis shrimp’s perfect shield
How it's inspiring a new class of lightweight, impact-resistant materialsCredit: Roy Caldwell/UC Berkeley How do you protect yourself from the ...
Mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice explained by years of robotic data
Credit: Dan Costa/University of California, Santa Cruz The winter ice on the surface of Antarctica's Weddell Sea occasionally forms an ...
2019 ‘dead zone’ may be the second largest on record
A recent forecast of the size of the "Dead Zone" in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2019 ...
Sediment from fishing choking out sea sponges, study shows
New research shows sediment stirred up by human activity is clogging glass sea sponges on Canada's west coastCredit: John Ulan ...
Rapid change in coral reefs prompts global calls for a rethink
Coral reef experts from around the world are calling for an urgent re-evaluation of our climate goals in the light ...
Fishers keen to help address the problem of marine litter
Credit: Fishing for Litter Commercial fishers are acutely aware of the potential for marine litter to cause lasting damage to ...
New model predicts impact of invasive lionfish predators on coral reefs
Marine biologists uncover clues about what makes invasive lionfish such effective predators on reefs in the Atlantic and CaribbeanCredit: Mark ...