Tag: Marine/Freshwater Biology

Credit: Dan Minchin/Marine Organism Investigations Over 50 non-native species have found their way to the Galápagos Islands, almost 10 times ...

Scientists decoded the genome of the popular Okinawan seaweed 'umi-budo' or 'sea grapes,' which could help ease the crop's cultivation ...

Findings will help resource managers with difficult conservation decisionsCredit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. A comprehensive analysis of more than 11,000 previous ...

University of Guelph researchers have uncovered clues as to how hagfish keep their hearts pumping for days without oxygenCredit: University ...

A study performed with microorganisms inhabiting floodplains, which comprises 20 percent of the whole Amazon, showed that the microbial food ...

Dolphins stranded on the beaches of Florida and Massachusetts show in their brains amyloid plaques, a hallmark in human beings ...

Credit: Marie-Anne Robertson A smartphone device could help millions of people avoid drinking water contaminated by arsenic. Researchers have developed ...

Greening of lakes will significantly increase greenhouse gas emissionsCredit: John A. Downing/Minnesota Sea Grant The good news is global and ...

Barnacles that hitchhiked aboard humpback whales tell of prehistoric yearly migrationsCredit: Larry Taylor, UC Berkeley Barnacles that hitch rides on ...

Pick right-sized rock or be eaten by cannibal neighborsCredit: Phil Colclough/Zoo Knoxville GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- For young hellbenders, choosing the ...

Warmer temperatures are having a ripple effect on food webs in Ontario lakes, according to a new University of Guelph ...

Launched on World Water Day, SDG Policy Support System outlines 6-step path to critical SDG 6; Enables effective assessment of ...

Credit: Emmanuel Arthur, 2019 (CC BY 4.0) Urogenital schistosomiasis (US), a chronic parasitic disease, is endemic in Ghana and policymakers ...

Credit: Brendan Philip /University of Washington Off the coast of Washington, columns of bubbles rise from the seafloor, as if ...

Scientists present latest research on environmental toxicology and chemistry in Helsinki Brussels -- The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry ...

When consumed in contaminated water, the microscopic parasite Cryptosporidium can cause symptoms of stomach cramps, diarrhea and fever. Now, researchers ...

Rutgers study shows how bacteria in wastewater plants transform widely used chemicalsCredit: Abigail W. Porter/Rutgers University-New Brunswick When you flush ...

Five-point plan to integrate 220 million recreational fishersCredit: Florian Moellers There are roughly five times as many recreational fishers as ...

Discovering the Arctic Ocean's seafloorsCredit: José Luis Casamor (GRC Marine Geosciences/University of Barcelona) A scientific study describes for the first ...

Technology creates an 'EasyPass' tollbooth for giant bluefin tuna; sheds light on natural mortality, migration of world's most lucrative fishCredit: ...