NTU study of ancient corals in Indonesia reveals slowest earthquake ever recorded
Study highlights missing factors or mismodelling in global risk assessmentsCredit: NTU Singapore A 'slow-motion' earthquake lasting 32 years - the ...
Tag: Oceanography
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 ...
Slender-snouted Besanosaurus was an 8 m long marine snapper
Paleontologists working in museum collections in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany have identified five additional specimens of a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur, named ...
Research confirms trawl ban substantially increases the abundance of marine organisms
Credit: CityU's State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution Biodiversity is of crucial importance to the marine ecosystem. The prohibition of ...
Microplastics found in Europe’s largest ice cap
Credit: Eirikur Sigurdsson In a recent article in Sustainability, scientists from Reykjavik University (RU), the University of Gothenburg, and the ...
Previously unrecognized tsunami hazard identified in coastal cities
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. --A new study found overlooked tsunami hazards related to undersea, near-shore strike-slip ...
Northern Red Sea corals pass heat stress test with flying colors
EPFL scientists are beginning to understand why corals in the Gulf of Aqaba, along with their symbiotic algae and bacteria, ...
An animal able to regenerate all of its organs even when it is dissected into three parts
A surprising discovery in the Gulf of EilatCredit: Tal Zaquin An extraordinary discovery in the Gulf of Eilat: Researchers from ...
Scientists warn: Humanity does not have effective tools to resist the tsunami
This threatens with sudden destruction of coastal cities and numerous human casualtiesCredit: UrFU / Grigory Tkachenko An international team of ...
Light, in addition to ocean temperature, plays role in coral bleaching
University of Guam researchers have found that shade can mitigate the effects of heat stress on coralsCredit: University of Guam ...
Social media and science show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway
Credit: Tracey Williams, Lost at Sea Project A ship's container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer ...
Bone collagen of fish shows individual history of migration and feeding habits
Credit: Yoshikazu Kato Collagen is a protein found widely in almost all cells of animals, and scientifically can be used ...
Drones provide bird’s eye view of how turbulent tidal flows affect seabird foraging habits
Credit: Lilian Lieber, Queen's University Belfast The foraging behaviour of seabirds is dramatically affected by turbulence caused by natural coastal ...
Study first to explore combined impacts of fishing and ocean warming on fish populations
Warming and fishing affecting survival of small fishCredit: Harrison Haines The combined effect of rapid ocean warming and the practice ...
New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought
Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI MUNICH -- The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion ...
Climate-friendly microbes chomp dead plants without releasing heat-trapping methane
Credit: Jian-Yu Jiao/Sun Yat-Sen University The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the ...
New evidence shows important seabird nutrients reach coral reefs after rat eradication
Scientists have provided the first evidence to show that eradicating rats from tropical islands effects not just the biodiversity on ...
Great white feeding ground
New research suggests unexpected presence of great white sharks in Gulf of CaliforniaCredit: Photos courtesy of Jack Musick and Scot ...
Energy unleashed by submarine volcanoes could power a continent
Credit: Image courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely ...
URI oceanographers reveal links between migrating Gulf Stream and warming ocean waters
Credit: (Animation by Afonso Gonçalves Neto) KINGSTON, R.I., -- April 20, 2021 -- The Northwest Atlantic Shelf is one of ...