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Study reveals how zebra fish get their stripes
Aug 13, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists at Ohio State University developed a mathematical model that describes the organization of the zebra fish's three types of pigment cells. "It's amazi...
Easter Island defined by cooperation, not collapse, study suggests
Aug 13, 2018 (UPI)
Historians and archaeologists have previously blamed conflict and the mismanagement of natural resources on the decline of Rapa Nui society. But several studies...
Rice Uni system selectively sequesters toxins from water
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
The Rice lab of engineer Qilin Li is building a treatment system that can be tuned to selectively pull toxins from drinking water and wastewater from factories,...
DIY robots help marine biologists discover new deep-sea dwellers
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
A multidisciplinary group of engineers, marine biologists, and roboticists have developed a sampling device that is soft, flexible, and customizable, which allo...
Reef corals have endured since 'age of dinosaurs' and may survive global warming
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
The team's research suggests that coral-algal partnerships have endured numerous climate change events in their long history, and offers a glimmer of hope that ...
Corals are becoming more tolerant of rising ocean temperatures
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
A new study published in PeerJ - the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences replicates 1970s experiments and provides encouraging evidence to suggest corals...
Expedition probes ocean's smallest organisms for climate answers
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
Yet a detailed account of what becomes of that carbon - how much of it goes where within the Earth and for how long - has beset scientists for decades. So while...
Pacific Ocean's effect on Arctic warming
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
The Arctic is experiencing larger and more rapid increases in temperature from global warming more than any other region, with sea-ice declining faster than pre...
Half a degree less warming can avoid precipitation extremes
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
The study, which appears in Nature Communications on August 8, 2018, confirms the significance of the incremental global warming limits articulated by the Paris...
New study shows some corals might adapt to climate changes
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
"Stressful periods of high temperature and increasingly acidic conditions are becoming more frequent and longer lasting in Florida waters," said Chris Langdon, ...
Scientists draw new connections between climate change and warming oceans
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
That's the warning from ocean scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Santa Cruz in a study published recently in Science that...
Heatwave kills a tonne of Swiss fish
Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)
The most severely affected area is the stretch of the Rhine river that runs from Lake Constance to the Rhine Falls, where barrels of dead grayling have pulled f...
Turkey moves historic bath house to avoid looming flooding of town
Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)
The Artuklu Hamam bath house in the southeastern town of Hasankeyf was loaded onto a wheeled platform and then moved down a specially constructed road to a new ...
Predatory sea corals team up to feed on stinging jellyfish
Aug 03, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have shown for the first time that corals can cooperate to capture and devour jellyfish which are swept against the walls by ocean currents. A team i...
Chile restricts tourists and non-locals on Easter Island
Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)
Despite its isolated location some 3,500 kilometers (2,000 miles) from the coast of mainland Chile the island is a popular tourist destination, not least due to...
Can seagrass help fight ocean acidification?
Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)
When coal, oil, or gas is burned, the resulting carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere where it is the driving force behind global climate change. But t...
First mapping of global marine wilderness shows just how little remains
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
The remaining marine wilderness is unequally distributed and found primarily in the Arctic, in the Antarctic, or around remote Pacific Island nations. In coasta...
The blueprint for El Nino diversity
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
"Our study reveals that there is a hidden structure in the seemingly chaotic and unpredictable occurrence of El Nino events," said Axel Timmermann, Director of ...
Chile to restrict tourists and non-locals on Easter Island
Jul 30, 2018 (AFP)
Despite its isolated location some 3,500 kilometers (2,000 miles) from the coast of Chile, the island is a popular tourist destination, not least due to its rem...
The last wild ocean
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
"The idea of wilderness is powerful for people, as well as for nature," said UC Santa Barbara professor Ben Halpern, director of the UCSB National Center for Ec...
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