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 ...
Tag: Oceanography
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 ...
Northern Red Sea corals live close to the threshold of resistance to cold temperatures
Though these corals can tolerate very high temperatures, a new study reveals that even a slight cold spell can cause ...
Long-term consequences of CO2 emissions
Oxygen in the ocean will continue to decrease for many centuriesCredit: C. Kersten, modified from A. Oschlies, 2021, GEOMAR. The ...
Microorganisms on the Rio Grande Rise are a basis for life and a possible origin of metals
Researchers conducted the first large-scale survey of the microbiota present in the seamount's ferromanganese crusts, describing bacteria and archaea involved ...
Environmental protection could benefit from ‘micro’ as well as ‘macro’ thinking
Credit: Luke Holman Scientists at the University of Southampton have conducted a study that highlights the importance of studying a ...
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