A tale of frozen landscapes is also an urgent call to action
Credit: Jon Ove Hagen The catastrophe Wadham is seeing unfold is the rapid melting and demise of our planet's glaciers. ...
Tag: Marine/Freshwater Biology
CT scans offer new view of Lake Malawi cichlid specimens in Penn State museum
Modern technology aids effort to characterize fish species in huge southern Africa waterCredit: Jay Stauffer Jr., Penn State Computed tomography ...
World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve
UNEP/IUCN Protected Planet Report: over 22 million km2 of land, 28 million km2 of ocean protected or conserved since 2010; ...
How a small fish coped with being isolated from the sea
12000-year-old fish bones shed light on evolutionary processes.Credit: Photo: Anders Romundset, NGU / NTNU The last ice age ended almost ...
Working together for clean water
The BMBF project "TRUST" (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at the University of Stuttgart developed concepts ...
Slow research to understand fast change
Forty years of experiments, observation, modeling and theory may be just what's needed to see where the world is headedCredit: ...
Two biodiversity refugia identified in the Eastern Bering Sea
Credit: Irene D. Alabia, et al. Global Change Biology. April 25, 2021 Scientists from Hokkaido University have used species survey ...
How plankton hold secrets to preventing pandemics
Credit: Tara Stewart Merrill Whether it's plankton exposed to parasites or people exposed to pathogens, a host's initial immune response ...
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 ...
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, ...