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#1334472022-02-23
Latest Discovery: Fish & Quid Found in the Central Arctic Ocean
Small fish are abundant in the 200-600 m deep Atlantic water layer of the Amundsen Basin, according to a unique hydroacoustic dataset collected by the EFICA Consortium, which revealed a "deep scattering layer" (DSL) consisting of zooplanktion and fish along the MOSAiC expedition's 3170 km long t ...
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#1290542021-06-04
Lake habitats are disappearing as the climate changes
Global warming is increasing the temperatures of lakes worldwide—are species finding the temperatures they need to survive? Researchers led by scientists at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have quantified the long-term temperature changes in 139 lakes world ...
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#1347642022-05-27
Killer whale that swam up France's River Seine in 'life-threatening condition'
A killer whale - orca - that strayed from the ocean and began swimming up the River Seine in France earlier this month is now at risk of dying, a researcher monitoring the mammal told local media.
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#1193012019-01-09
Keeping a Watch on Seaweeds: The Forests of the World’s Coasts
Macroalgal assemblages are highly productive and biodiverse ecosystems providing important functions and services, including provision of nursery areas, human food resources, and protection from coastal erosion.
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#1264552020-12-23
Keeping a Close Eye on the Ocean—from Afar
Upwelling regions account for just 1% of the world’s oceans, yet they are responsible for producing roughly half of the global fishing industry’s annual harvest—worth an estimated $362 billion as of 2016. These nutrient-dense, cool-water regions play a vital role in global ecosystems, supporting ...
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#1275822021-03-08
Keep your head: the self-decapitating sea slugs that regrow their bodies – hearts and all
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then it’s unlikely that you are a sacoglossan sea slug (apologies to Rudyard Kipling).
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#1251662020-04-17
Keep fish in the sea - and off our plates
During April, people across the world celebrated the Christian holiday of Easter. For many, this involves days of fasting or moderation as part of tradition or religious observance. In the UK and many other countries, this takes the form of abstention from red meat on Good Friday.
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#1226742019-10-15
Jordan’s Aqaba Reefs: Hard Corals Present Simple Solution
The solution to dying coral reefs may be lurking just under the surface of Red Sea waters. New studies reveal that Gulf of Aqaba coral reefs show resistance to climate change.
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#1331862022-02-15
Jordan scrambles to save rare Red Sea corals that can withstand climate change
Dozens of tiny, dazzlingly colorful fish swim around a maze of layer upon layer of corals. When divers approach, they hide near a dome-shaped colony.
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#1192732019-01-07
Jellyfish sting more than 5,000 holidaymakers on Queensland's coast
More than 5,000 people were stung by bluebottles on Queensland’s Gold and Sunshine coasts over the weekend as weather drove a wall of jellyfish onto the shore.
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#1214442019-07-02
Japanese ships to kill hundreds of whales as ban ends
Japan resumed commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years, and a fleet of vessels began catching its first whales on Monday.
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#1203572019-03-13
Italy’s first coral reef has been discovered
In an exciting scientific discovery, researchers in the Italian Adriatic coast have found the country’s very first coral reef and one which they believe may be unique to the entirety of Europe.
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#1192902019-01-08
It's Not Just Us: Corals Also Thrive Best in Diverse Company
From a young age, marine ecologist Cody Clements knew he wanted to dedicate his life to studying coral reefs. But he never imagined his graduate career would require so many soda bottles.
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#1284522021-05-06
It stores pollution 30 times faster than forest. What is blue carbon?
At Australia’s westernmost point lies the Coral Coast, a land of strange extremities. Marine megafauna is more accessible than ever before. Tourists swim with humpbacks and manta rays and whale sharks. They hand-feed playful dolphins that obligingly stick out scarred and blemished dorsal fins sc ...
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#1203592019-03-13
Israel moves pristine corals after restricted beach reopens
For 50 years an Israeli oil company kept bathers and scuba divers away from a prime strip of beach in the Red Sea resort of Eilat. But it couldn’t stop the sea life.
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#1237302020-01-15
Is there going to be a meagre future for animals living on seafloor of Baltic Sea?
In the future, climate change and diminishing nutrient loads may reduce the amount of animals living on the seafloor in the Baltic Sea. This benthic fauna has so far been increasing in shallow waters during past eutrophication, and this has more than compensated for the hypoxia-driven loss of fa ...
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#1195102019-01-18
Is it a girl?
A newborn calf spotted among a population of critically endangered killer whales will survive into maturity, scientists say. Researchers are hoping that the juvenile whale is a female, as this will give the group the best chance of producing more offspring.
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#1292302021-06-11
International team maps world's giant kelp forests
The world's giant kelp forests—vital marine wildernesses as important to Earth's ecology as rainforests and coral reefs—are being mapped by a team of international scientists.
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#1338882022-03-31
Inside the Mediterranean sea's 'animal forests': An encounter with the gorgonian corals
Gorgonians are an order of soft corals that belong to the large group of Cnidaria, which also includes hard corals, sea anemones, jellyfish and many other species. Gorgonians colonize the seabed all over the world, from shallow coastal areas to deep sea canyons, temperate and tropical areas to p ...
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#1202952019-03-11
Inner Mongolia reports increasing biodiversity in major lakes
North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region said three major lakes in the region have seen improved ecological environment and increased biodiversity in recent years.
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#1218242019-08-07
Industrial fishing behind plummeting shark numbers
Research finds marine predators are significantly smaller and much rarer in areas closer to people
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#1197442019-02-04
Incredibly Rare Footage Shows a Newborn Humpback Whale Less Than 20 Minutes After Birth
A researcher studying whales and dolphins was treated to an extremely rare sight in January: a baby humpback whale swimming with its mum, less than 20 minutes after being born.
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#1229562019-11-11
Incredible Footage Reveals Orcas Chasing Off The Ocean's Most Terrifying Predator
The great white shark is often viewed as the most hardcore thing in the ocean. The top of the food chain. The silent slayer in the dark. But evidence is increasingly emerging that even the great white isn't safe. In fact, these fish too are prey.
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#1232202019-12-03
In the Atlantic’s far south, cameras reveal biodiversity gem
From the ship’s deck, there nothing to see but deep blue water, not the remotest sign of a marine paradise that lies just a few metres below the waves.
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#1259682020-12-02
In a post-Covid world, lessons in living must come from the ocean
The Covid-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus the relationship people around the world have with the ocean. As lockdowns eased, people flocked to the seashore and the beaches as the oceans’ appeal to the inner stirrings of both body and soul became more pronounced.
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#1258752020-11-26
In a first, 'serious' coral bleaching reported in Pakistan near Churna Island
WWF-Pakistan on Thursday appealed to the government to declare Churna Island a Marine Protected Area (MPA) after coral bleaching was reported in some areas of the island.
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#1301272021-08-24
In a First, Scientists Record Blue Whale Songs off the Lakshadweep Islands
One hot 2019 afternoon in Lakshadweep, as marine mammal scientist Divya Panicker sat engrossed in listening to recordings retrieved from underwater sound recorders, she came across low blue-whale moans amid the cacophony of a rooster crow.
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#1347012022-05-25
In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch
Sierra Leone — As dawn breaks, the fishing wharf at Tamba Kula in Freetown buzzes with the movement of early-morning commerce. Fishers just back from days spent far out at sea unload their catch from wooden boats, hauling snapper, barracuda and other fish out of icy compartments into cartons car ...
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#1209392019-05-03
In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves
SUNGAI NIBUNG, Indonesia — The phone signal comes and goes and the electricity grid has yet to reach this patch of jungle on the west coast of Borneo.
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#1291652021-06-08
In Gabon, a new partnership for sharks and rays announced on World Ocean Day
The Government of Gabon has passed landmark measures to manage and protect the country’s sharks and rays: over the past decade, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has worked with the Gabon government to identify 69 species in the country’s waters, highlighting the diversity that these measures ...
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#1197252019-02-01
Importance to planet of saving wetlands highlighted
The power of the planet’s most effective carbon sinks - wetlands - can and must be better harnessed in national and global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, says the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands as it marks World Wetlands Day tomorrow.
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#1285392021-05-11
Immediate and drastic action needed to save coral reefs
New research has revealed that while we still have a chance to save coral reefs, time is quickly running out. The study from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies suggests that under an intermediate emissions scenario, the growth rate of some reefs may keep pace with sea level rise ...
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#1186612018-10-25
If You Drink Glenmorangie Whisky, You Can Help Rebuild Scotland's Oyster Reefs
In Scotland's highlands, the Glenmorangie whisky distillery has gone beyond merely making whisky and into marine conservation. Working with Heriot Watt University and the Marine Conservation Society, 20,000 oysters will be introduced into the sea near the distillery in the Dornoch Firth - firth ...
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#1279592021-04-07
Hundreds of dead dolphins and fish wash up on beaches in Ghana
Authorities in Ghana are investigating the deaths of hundreds of dolphins and fish that washed up on beaches in Ghana in recent days, as fears grow that contaminated fish have been sold to customers.
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#1347632022-05-27
Humpback whale freed from illegal fishing net off Spain dies a week later
A 14-metre long humpback whale freed from entanglement in an illegal drift fishing net off the island of Mallorca has died on another Spanish beach more than 300 kilometres away.
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#1193262019-01-10
Humpback Whales Plagiarize the Tunes of Other Whales (Even Oceans Away)
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) aren't just talented singers, they learn and steal each other's' songs. And, according to a new study, they can pull off those musical thefts even when there are whole continents separating them from their targets.
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#1215982019-07-16
Humans May Be Accidentally Geoengineering the Oceans
Iron particles released by industrial activities are falling into the seas in greater quantities than previously thought
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#1205582019-03-28
Hudson river shows signs of rebound after decades as New York's sewer
The presence of large sturgeon is just one indicator that the waterway is recovering from serious industrial pollution.New York’s Hudson river, once known as America’s Rhine in a nod to the famous European waterway, played a pivotal role in bolstering American power at the cost of decades of fou ...
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#1263502020-12-18
How will ocean anoxic zones interact with climate change?
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have investigated the dynamics of ecosystems in parts of the ocean that have no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, which are known as ocean anoxic zones. In these areas, only microbes that are adapted to the environment can survive.
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#1223672019-09-25
How underwater plants and corals can help animals survive marine heatwaves
Most of the heat from global warming has gone into the oceans, so it is no wonder that the seas are experiencing massive heatwaves too. What's more, climate change is causing a fall in global ocean oxygen levels.
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#1227232019-10-24
How to save the world’s coral reefs
Corals are comeback creatures. As the world froze and melted and sea levels rose and fell over 30,000 years, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which is roughly the size of Italy, died and revived five times. But now, thanks to human activity, corals face the most complex concoction of conditions t ...
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#1320902021-12-08
How to protect and restore EU’s seas
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are an important tool for protecting and conserving marine ecosystems and their associated services in the long term. However, MPAs require proper management to achieve their conservation objectives.
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#1220042019-08-27
How the herring adapted to the light environment in the Baltic Sea
An international team of scientists reports that a single amino acid change in the light-sensing rhodopsin protein played a critical role when herring adapted to the red-shifted light environment in the Baltic Sea.
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#1353872022-07-20
How the Ocean Sustains Complex Life
Search “ocean zones” online, and you will see hundreds of illustrations that depict the same vertical profile of the sea. The thin, top layer is the “sunlight” or epipelagic zone, which receives enough light for photosynthesis by phytoplankton, algae and some bacteria.
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#1351102022-06-29
How the Fashion Industry Is Tackling Three Major Impacts on Our Ocean - Bringing Hope for the Decade of the Ocean
The old adage ‘There’s plenty more fish in the sea’ has been replaced with the inconceivable ‘By 2050 plastics in the ocean will outweigh fish’ (according to a report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in partnership with The World Economic Forum).
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#1294072021-06-21
How oysters and seagrass could help the California coast adapt to rising seas
On a sunny afternoon in April, Katie Nichols crouched over the edges of a small oyster reef in Newport Bay, California, peering into the mud that had been exposed by the receding tide. Where all I saw was a jumble of interchangeable shell fragments, Nichols quickly spotted what she was looking for.
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#1202162019-03-05
How new species arise in the sea
For a new species to evolve, two things are essential: a characteristic—such as a colour—unique to one species and a mating preference for this characteristic. For example, individuals from a blue fish species prefer blue mates and individuals from a red fish species prefer red mates.
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#1217262019-07-29
How fishing is posing a global threat to sharks
A major study has highlighted how sharks are threatened by commercial fishing around the globe.
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#1190022018-12-12
How do coral reefs benefit Kenya's economy?
Coral reefs contain the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. They're crucial for fish reproduction and protecting shorelines from tropical storms.
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#1351452022-06-30
How bottom trawling hurts ocean life and speeds up climate change
When Bryce Stewart dived after the toothed, steel-weighted nets of a scallop dredger rumbling over the bottom of the Irish Sea 22 years ago, he witnessed destruction he could never have seen from a boat.