Endangered blue whales recorded off southwest coast of India
Credit: Sayed Abdullakoya Research from the University of Washington shows that endangered blue whales are present and singing off the ...
Tag: Oceanography
Corals’ natural ‘sunscreen’ may help them weather climate change
Credit: Mike Henley/Smithsonian Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists are one step closer to understanding why some corals can weather climate ...
Artificial light harming clownfish
Long-term exposure to artificial light decreasing survival of a coral reef fishCredit: Frederic Zuberer Young clownfish living closest to shore ...
UN: More harmful algal bloom impacts emerge amid rising seafood demand, coastal development
UNESCO IOC delivers 1st global assessment report after 7 years' work by 109 experts in 35 countries, creating a baseline ...
Papers explore massive plankton blooms with very different ecosystem impacts
Credit: Dan Brinkhuis, ScienceMedia.nl "The big mystery about plankton is what controls its distribution and abundance, and what conditions lead ...
Global youth draft ‘Blue New Deal’ to protect oceans: ‘Time to end generational injustice’
Seek public comment on global youth crowd-sourced ocean policy framework to balance ocean, human, climate, and economic healthCredit: SOA Concerned ...
Sea snakes show their sensitive side to court potential mates
Credit: Jenna Crowe-Riddell Decades of research has revealed the remarkable morphological adaptations of sea snakes to aquatic life, which include ...
Fungus creates a fast track for carbon
Stanford scientists find epidemics of fungal infections in algae alter carbon cyclingCredit: Klawonn et al. 2021, PNAS Tiny algae in ...
Underwater ancient cypress forest offers clues to the past
Credit: LSU When saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and giant sloths roamed North America during the last Ice Age about 18,000 ...
UN urges intense restoration of nature to address climate and biodiversity crises
Launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UN calls on countries to meet commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of ...
Turning the tables — how table corals are regenerating reefs
Table corals are regenerating reefsCredit: Australian Institute of Marine Science Table corals have been dubbed as "extraordinary ecosystem engineers" - ...
Using fossil plant molecules to track down the Green Sahara
New publication: Researchers explain how vegetation was possible in the desertCredit: Photo: Rachid Cheddadi, University of Montpellier The Sahara has ...
Plastic in Galapagos seawater, beaches and animals
Credit: Adam Porter Plastic pollution has been found in seawater, on beaches and inside marine animals at the Galapagos Islands. ...
Seabirds sound alarm: Breeding success corresponds to hemispheric rates of ocean warming
Long-term data show fish-eating species are struggling to raise young in northern hemisphereCredit: Ron LeValley There is heightened public awareness ...
Some forams could thrive with climate change, metabolism study finds
Credit: Image credit: J.M. Bernhard. Woods Hole, Mass. (May 27, 2021) - With the expansion of oxygen-depleted waters in the ...
Warm ice may fracture differently than cold ice
New study suggests old rules on how ice breaks may not always hold upCredit: Iman El Gharamti/Aalto University Researchers at ...
Scientists sound alarm about unprecedented mercury accumulation in Pacific Ocean trenches
Multi-national team of scientists discover amounts of mercury in the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean that exceed any value ...
Hurricane Matthew storm surge data wins NHERI DesignSafe Dataset Award 2021
Data assimilation method improves NOAA forecasts of coastal floodingCredit: FEMA News Photos Hurricane storm surge is one of the most ...
Microscopic fossils record ancient climate conditions
Credit: Courtney Wagner/University of Utah Fifty-six million years ago, as the Earth's climate warmed by five to eight degrees C, ...
Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet
Credit: Poul Christoffersen and RESPONDER team Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ...