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SAIC receives $13.9 million care contract for Navy Marine Mammal Program
Jan 28, 2020 (UPI)
The Navy Marine Mammal Program, which began in 1959 and has been headquarted at Point Loma in San Diego since the 1960s, trains bottlenose dolphins and Californ...
'Blob' research shows ecological effects that halted fishing and hiked whale entanglements
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
The findings reflect a new management challenge brought about by a changing climate, recovering whale populations, and fishing pressure, according to the new re...
The Blue Acceleration: Recent colossal rise in human pressure on ocean quantified
Jan 27, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists have dubbed the dramatic rise the "Blue Acceleration". The researchers from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, synthesized 50-yea...
Revenge of the albatross: seabirds expose illicit fishing
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
Snagged by longlines, tangled in nets, shot at by sailors, and scorned by poets as lazy or a bad omen, the world's largest flying seabird is today a front-line ...
World's first public database of mine tailings dams aims to prevent deadly disasters
Jan 27, 2020 (SPX)
Until now, there has been no central database detailing the location and quantity of the mining industry's liquid and solid waste, known as tailings. The waste ...
Model predicts future phytoplankton boom in tropics
Jan 27, 2020 (UPI)
Phytoplankton anchor the aquatic food web. Most scientists assumed this community of photosynthesizing bacteria and plant-like diatoms would struggle in the tro...
One year on, Brazil town remembers 270 killed in dam breach
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
Still in mourning for the people swept away by the tsunami of sludge, some 300 people -- friends and relatives of the victims as well as emergency personnel and...
Coral 'helper' stays robust under ocean acidification
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
In a world-first, the team - including researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at The University of Western Australia (Coral CoE at...
Export of the most important deep-water mass of the Southern Hemisphere is prone to disturbances
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
However, during the peak of the last two ice ages, the supply of deep water from the Weddell Sea to the South Atlantic Ocean was apparently interrupted, as show...
A year after Brazil dam collapse: What's changed?
Jan 22, 2020 (AFP)
Millions of tons of toxic mining waste engulfed houses, farms and waterways, devastating the mineral-rich region in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais. Stat...
Elevated PFAS levels found in tap water in major U.S. cities
Jan 22, 2020 (UPI)
The new study, organized by the Environmental Working Group, involved the testing of tap water samples from 44 locations in 31 states. "We found PFAS in all but...
French campaigners highlight trawlers' deadly toll on dolphins
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
It's time for the team from Sea Shepherd, a group dedicated to protecting the world's marine life, to start their nightly patrol. Six volunteers set out in a se...
US dumps huge amounts of sand on Miami Beach to tackle climate change erosion
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
"We have erosion hotspots," said Stephen Leatherman, an expert on beaches and the environment at Florida International University. "When the beach is critically...
Alarm over Rio's drinking water causes run on supermarket stocks
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
Rio governor Wilson Witzel set alarm bells ringing in a Twitter post on Tuesday, saying the situation -- fueled by social media rumors -- was "unacceptable" and...
Study weighs deep-sea mining's impact on microbes
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
"The push for deep-sea mining has really accelerated in the last few years, and it is crucial that policy makers and the industry understand these microbes and ...
How nodules stay on top at the bottom of the sea
Jan 14, 2020 (SPX)
The growth of these deep-sea nodules - metallic lumps of manganese, iron, and other metals found in all the major ocean basins - is one of the slowest known geo...
Oceans were hottest on record in 2019
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
Oceans absorb more than 90 percent of excess heat created by greenhouse gas emissions and quantifying how much they have warmed up in recent years gives scienti...
ENSO heat engine shifts eastward under global warming
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
It has been reported that ENSO-induced precipitation anomalies will shift and extend eastward under global warming, projected by climate change simulations from...
Ocean acidification a big problem - but not for coral reef fish behavior
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
The study, conducted by an international coalition led by scientists from Australia and Norway, showed that coral reef fish exposed to CO2 at levels expected by...
Double-checking the science
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
Over the last decade, several high-profile scientific studies have reported that tropical fish living in coral reefs are adversely affected by ocean acidificati...
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