First test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production begins off Puerto Rico
Credit: Loretta Roberson, MBL WOODS HOLE, Mass. and La Parguera, P.R. - A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson ...
Tag: Marine/Freshwater Biology
Which animals will survive climate change?
Genetic changes in threespine stickleback fish driven by seasonal shifts could help scientist predict how certain species will adapt to ...
New snailfish genome reveals how they adapted to the pressures of deep-sea life
The genome contains extra genes for enzymes that help stabilize its proteins and DNA under high pressuresCredit: Mu Y et ...
Evolutionary biologists discover mechanism that enables lizards to breathe underwater
Credit: Lindsey Swierk TORONTO, ON - A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto has shown that Anolis ...
Can fisheries benefit from biodiversity and conserve it too?
Biodiversity seems, naturally, like a good thing but when it comes to fisheries management, it can involve competing trade-offs.Credit: Credit: ...
Largest-ever study of artificial insemination in sharks–and the occasional ‘virgin birth’
Credit: Photo by Jay Harvey, Aquarium of the Pacific It's a tough time to be a shark. Pollution, industrialized fishing, ...
Army Corps of Engineers awards UToledo $1.4-M to develop new methods to combat toxic algae
UToledo researchers are collaborating with municipal water treatment plants in OhioCredit: Daniel Miller, The University of Toledo The U.S. Army ...
Same gene drives male water striders’ long legs and the inclination to use them as weapons
RNAi experiments reveal correlated effects on sexual characteristics like body size and aggressionCredit: Abderrahman Khila Some water strider males (Microvelia ...
Zebrafish brain shows that new neurons are formed in the brain in a coordinated manner
Credit: Tel Aviv University Using Zebrafish, researchers from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Faculty of Life ...
Mediterranean turtles recovering at different rates
Credit: Olkan Erguler Numbers of two Mediterranean turtle species have risen in the last three decades - but in Cyprus ...
Informed tourists make whale watching wafer for whales
Credit: Héctor Guzmán According to the International Whaling Commission, whale-watching tourism generates more than $2.5 billion a year. After the ...
Time running out to save coral reefs
Credit: Morgan Pratchett / ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. New research on the growth rates of coral ...
Impacts of landfill chemical waste on UK seabirds investigated
Deterioration of older waste disposal sites could result in mixture of toxic pollutants entering ecosystemsCredit: Sarah Burthe A £2.3million study ...
Clue to killer whale cluster
Why do more than 100 gather off WA every year?Credit: photo courtesy Naturaliste Charters, WA A Flinders University researcher has ...
Firefighting chemical found in sea lion and fur seal pups
PFAS detected in endangered sea lion in SA and in Australian fur seals in VICCredit: Louise Cooper, University of Sydney. ...
Sharks in protected area attract illegal fishers
Credit: Claire Collins Thousands of sharks have been illegally caught in a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Indian Ocean, ...
With bacteria against coral bleaching
Probiotic approaches could protect corals against heat stressCredit: A. Roik. 7 May 2021/Kiel. Corals are the backbone of marine ecosystems ...
PCB contamination in Icelandic orcas: a matter of diet
Accurate forecasting of health risks to killer whale populations may depend on looking at individual variations in their dietCredit: Filipa ...
Temperature explains why aquatic life more diverse near equator
Findings indicate global warming could reduce biodiversity in tropicsCredit: Adapted from figure in Current Biology / Cell Press The bulging, ...
Strange isotopes: Scientists explain a methane isotope paradox of the seafloor
Why methane carbon isotopes in the deep sea behave so differently than expectedCredit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Methane, a chemical ...