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Climate change challenges the survival of fish across the world
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
University of Washington researchers are tackling this question in the first analysis of how vulnerable the world's freshwater and marine fishes are to climate ...
Old fish are rare in today's heavily fished oceans
Sep 14, 2017 (UPI)
The findings -- detailed this week in the journal Current Biology -- are worrisome, as the longer fish live, the more chances they have to reproduce and repleni...
Man-made reefs: A compelling diving alternative
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
The paper, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, examines artificial coral reefs as "recreational ecosystem services," offering a new methodolog...
NASA team find evidence of sea level 'fingerprints'
Sep 12, 2017 (JPL)
As ice sheets and glaciers undergo climate-related melting, they alter Earth's gravity field, resulting in sea level changes that aren't uniform around the glob...
130-tonne 'monster fatberg' clogs London sewer
Sep 12, 2017 (AFP)
Engineers expect it will take up to three-weeks to remove the rock-solid mass of festering food fat mixed with sanitary wipes found in drains under a major road...
SubSea Craft to display Diver Delivery Unit at DSEI 2017
Sep 11, 2017 (UPI)
The DDU functions as a fast speedboat for delivering special forces and cargo to shore and back with the ability to submerge for the last few miles of approach ...
What is a storm surge and why is it so dangerous?
Sep 09, 2017 (AFP)
Forecasters warn that the storm surge from Hurricane Irma could reach 15 feet (4.5 meters) along parts of the Florida coast in the coming hours. Here are some f...
Vulnerable Pacific states demand urgent climate action
Sep 08, 2017 (AFP)
In a communique issued at the end of a week-long gathering in the Samoan capital Apia, the Pacific nations highlighted the "significant vulnerability" they face...
Taking a deep breath in the North Atlantic
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
A team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego, California), Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Oc...
Pacific islands can't tackle climate change alone: World Bank
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
A World Bank report, "Pacific Possible", draws on research from numerous sources to back the long-held view of regional leaders that they are on the frontline o...
More 'losers' than 'winners' predicted for Southern Ocean seafloor animals
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
A team at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) examined the potential distribution of over 900 species of shelf-dwelling marine invertebrates under a warming scenario...
Your tap water may contain plastic, researchers warn
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
While the health risks are unknown, the researchers pointed to previous findings that plastic particles can absorb, and release, potentially harmful chemicals a...
Pacific corals in 'worrying' state: researchers
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
An in-depth probe along a 50,000-kilometre (31,000-mile) stretch of the Pacific found that up to 90 percent of some coral colonies around the Samoan islands had...
Chile's Easter Island declares huge marine protection zone
Sep 05, 2017 (AFP)
Along with a marine park that already exists, the new area will cover 720,000 square kilometers (280,000 square miles) around the island, which sits 3,500 kilom...
Pacific leaders to turn up heat on climate change
Sep 04, 2017 (AFP)
The 18-member Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) includes countries such as Kiribati and Tuvalu, which are only metres above sea level and risk being swamped by rising...
New research delivers hope for reef fish living in a high CO2 world
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
Chemical changes in the ocean, as a result of climate change, are leading to a more acidic environment, referred to as 'ocean acidification' (OA). In a laborato...
Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences uncover factors that shape sea life
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
The team found that, despite some similarities, the forces that tend to shape diversification and community assemblage on land are different from those that imp...
The underwater jungles of the sea give clearer water
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
"Dense plant communities such as seaweeds and pondweeds also slow down the water movement and cause sediment particles to sink to the bottom, which also makes t...
Caspian Sea evaporating as temperatures rise
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
Water levels in the Caspian Sea dropped nearly 7 centimeters (3 inches) per year from 1996 to 2015, or nearly 1.5 meters (5 feet) total, according to the new st...
Don't be salty - tiny tubes desalinate water one molecule at a time
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
As potable water sources dwindle, global population increases every year. One potential solution to quenching the planet's thirst is through desalinization - th...
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