The cultural significance of carbon-storing peatlands to rural communities
A group of UK and Peruvian researchers have carried out the first detailed study of how rural communities interact with ...
Tag: Marine/Freshwater Biology
Penguins and their chicks’ responses to local fish numbers informs marine conservation
Credit: R. B. Sherley How adult penguins fish and the body condition of their chicks are directly linked to local ...
AJTMH tipsheet for May 2019
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH California Study Warns Obscure Q Fever a ...
Pseudohermaphrodite snails can help to access how polluted the Arctic seas are
Credit: Ivan Nekhaev, a postdoc at St Petersburg University Ivan Nekhaev, a postdoc at St Petersburg University, studied snails of ...
Dolphin ancestor’s hearing was more like hoofed mammals than today’s sea creatures
CT scan of 30-million-year-old fossil indicates echolocation evolved more than onceCredit: Rachel Racicot/Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University paleontologists are looking into ...
Impact of CO2 leakage through North Sea wells
Researchers are investigating the limits and possibilities of the submarine storage of CO2 It is possible to reduce anthropogenic CO2 ...
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Mysterious larvae found in Panama's two oceansCredit: Credit: Michael Boyle Under the microscope, sea water reveals the larval stages of ...
It’s not just fish, plastic pollution harms the bacteria that help us breathe
Credit: Kevin Krejci Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ...
Good genes
Researchers break down DNA of world's largest mammals to discover how whales defy the cancer oddsWhales, which live longer than ...
Study explores the use of robots and artificial intelligence to understand the deep-sea
Credit: University of Plymouth Artificial intelligence (AI) could help scientists shed new light on the variety of species living on ...
Color vision found in fish that live in near darkness
New research reveals signs of highly sensitive color vision in fish that live in the abyss beyond sunlight's reachCredit: Pavel ...
When people get along, fish thrive
Credit: Tim McClanahan/WCS Drawing on comprehensive social and ecological data from five coral reef fishing communities in Kenya; including interviews ...
Detection of unusual hybrid schistosomes in Malawi
LSTM's Professor Russell Stothard is senior author on a new paper in which researchers from the UK and Malawi have ...
Research reveals surprisingly powerful bite of tiny early tetrapod
Credit: Image courtesy of Professor Jennifer Clack, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Micro-CT scanning of a tiny snake-like fossil discovered ...
Low oxygen levels could temporarily blind marine invertebrates
First study to demonstrate vision in marine invertebrates is highly sensitive to the amount of oxygen in waterCredit: Lilly McCormick ...
Radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb tests found in deep ocean trenches
Credit: US Department of Energy WASHINGTON--Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest ...
Soaking up pharmaceuticals and personal care products from water
Medications excreted in the urine or dumped into the toilet can end up in the water supply, just like lotions ...
Water flea can smell fish and dive into the dark for protection
Credit: Eric von Elert Water fleas - or Daphnia - ensure their survival by reacting to a signal substance of ...
The Sea Lab’s Outreach Coordinator contributes to synthesis on Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The Sea Lab's Discovery Hall Programs Outreach Coordinator Rachel McDonald's work conducting outreach on ACER's research is featured in a ...
Threatened sturgeon learns for the fitness
Credit: Marco Prosch An international team led by IGB is providing one of the first proofs of the complex learning ...