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Deep-sea marine sponges may hold key to antibiotic drug resistance
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
For more than 30 years, FAU Harbor Branch scientists have accumulated sea sponges and other macro-organisms from the east coast of the United States, Gulf of Me...
Metron contracted for undersea unmanned vehicle payloads
Jun 20, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Tuesday, is valued at more than $8 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for an "effort titled advanced modular payloads...
Marine reserves are essential, but increasingly stressed
Jun 19, 2018 (UPI)
When scientists compared the health of marine reserves close to heavily populated areas with those far from civilization, they found a significant difference. "...
Large-scale study indicates novel, abundant nitrogen-fixing microbes in surface ocean
Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)
The international study, published this week in Nature Microbiology, was led by A. Murat Eren (Meren) of the University of Chicago and the Marine Biological Lab...
Researchers locate world's first known manta ray nursery
Jun 19, 2018 (UPI)
The nursery of juvenile mantra rays was first observed by Joshua Stewart, a marine biology PhD student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University ...
Australia vows to compete with China funding in Pacific
Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)
Projects are increasingly being constructed in the region through China's signature infrastructure-building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Canberra is worri...
When the river runs high
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
Dr Nathan Waltham from the Tropical Water and Aquatic Eco-systems Research Centre (TropWATER) and James Cook University in Australia, joined scientists from 22 ...
Fueling a deep-sea ecosystem
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
A new study by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists has unveiled that these microbe-based ecosystems are surprisingly productive and play an i...
US property crisis looms as sea level rises, experts warn
Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)
But experts warn that ignoring sea level rise won't prevent a looming economic crisis caused by water-logged homes that will someday become unsafe, uninhabitabl...
Egypt's shrinking 'Pharaonic Sea' has fishermen worried
Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)
The thin 10,000-square kilometre stretch of water just north of the capital was once part of the Nile River, but shrivelling shorelines have left it separated f...
3D View of Amazon forests captures effects of El Nino drought
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
"Climate projections for the Amazon basin suggest warmer and drier conditions in coming decades," said Earth system scientist Doug Morton at NASA's Goddard Spac...
Boring down on boron
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
Boron is a trace mineral found in concentrations of 0.001-100 milligrams per litre in ground and surface freshwater, but in higher concentrations in seawater (a...
Antarctica ramps up sea level rise
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
The findings are from a major climate assessment known as the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE), and are published in Nature. It is the m...
Complex river networks sustain more resilient, diverse animal populations
Jun 13, 2018 (UPI)
More complex river systems feature greater levels of branching, which offer a more diverse array of habitats. According to the latest research, conducted by sci...
Chinese researchers achieve 3D underwater acoustic carpet cloak first with 'Black Panther'-like features
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
Recently, a research team led by Prof. YANG Jun from the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences designed and fabricated a 3D underwater...
Portable chamber enables species from 150 metres to be studied
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
"The ability to physically dive to twilight zone depths using closed-circuit rebreathers means we can closely explore these environments without relying on larg...
Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' forecasted to exceed the size of Connecticut
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
While there are more than 500 dead zones around the world, the northern Gulf of Mexico dead zone is the second largest human-caused coastal hypoxic area in the ...
Nutrient pollution makes ocean acidification worse for coral reefs
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
Coral reefs provide critical ecosystem services including food security and shoreline protection to coastal communities. These services largely depend on the hi...
Easter Islanders used rope, ramps to put giant hats on famous statues
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
"Of the many questions that surround the island's past, two tend to stand out: How did people of the past move such massive statues (moai) and how did they plac...
New system recovers fresh water from power plants
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
About 39 percent of all the fresh water withdrawn from rivers, lakes, and reservoirs in the U.S. is earmarked for the cooling needs of electric power plants tha...
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