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The galloping evolution in seahorses
Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)
Without a doubt, the seahorse belongs to Darwin's "endless forms most beautiful". Its body form is one of a kind. It has neither a tail nor pelvic fin, it swims...
Thai fishing fleets shift to distant waters to avoid crackdown: Greenpeace
Dec 15, 2016 (AFP)
Thai fishing fleets have shifted to remote and ecologically vulnerable waters off the east African coast to evade a regional crackdown on illegal fishing and hu...
Study warns of world's groundwater depletion by 2050
Dec 15, 2016 (AFP)
Groundwater resources could be depleted in the next few decades in dry areas of the world where people use lots of water for drinking and irrigating crops, rese...
Earth's Magnetic Fields Could Track Ocean Heat: NASA
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet's ocean - but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task. A surprising fea...
Water: Finding the normal within the weird
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
Water has many unusual properties, such as its solid form, ice, being able to float in liquid water, and they get weirder below its freezing point. Supercooled ...
Mexico's energy reform calls for new water policy
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
As the Mexican government oversees the implementation of the country's energy reform, it must consider how best to prioritize water use in accordance with the l...
Kelp beats the heat
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
In early 2014, when a large-scale marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean produced temperature anomalies greater than anything seen since recordkeeping began in t...
How does water melt? Layer by layer
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
We all know that water melts at 0C. However, already 150 years ago the famous physicist Michael Faraday discovered that at the surface of frozen ice, well below...
Six-storey-high wave sets a record, says UN agency
Dec 13, 2016 (AFP)
The UN's weather agency on Tuesday announced the highest wave on record -- a behemoth that towered 19 metres (62.3 feet) above the North Atlantic. Scrutiny of d...
A fish adapts quickly to lethal levels of pollution
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis, a...
New studies take a second look at coral bleaching culprit
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have called superoxide out as the main culprit behind coral bleaching: The idea is that as this toxin build up inside coral cells, the corals fight b...
Fishery bycatch rapidly driving Mexico's vaquita to extinction
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
One of the most sophisticated networks of acoustic detectors ever developed for wildlife science has documented a devastating 34 percent per year decline of Mex...
2016 see mixed results for ocean health
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
The results are in, and while the world's oceans show no significant decline over the past year, their condition should not be mistaken as a clean bill of healt...
Why cryptophyte algae are really good at harvesting light
Dec 12, 2016 (SPX)
In an algae-eat-algae world, it's the single-celled photosynthetic organisms at the top (layer of the ocean) that absorb the most sunlight. Underneath, in the s...
East Asian dust deposition impacts on marine biological productivity
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
Dust storms have important climatic and environmental effect. Particularly, dust containing nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron, etc.) could exert a signi...
Longest-living animal gives up ocean climate secrets
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
A study of the longest-living animal on Earth, the quahog clam, has provided researchers with an unprecedented insight into the history of the oceans. By studyi...
A new dead zone in the Indian Ocean could impact future marine nutrient balance
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
Large areas of the global ocean, so called marine "dead zones" contain no oxygen and support microbial processes that remove vast amounts of nitrogen from the g...
Extreme downpours could increase fivefold across parts of the US
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
At century's end, the number of summertime storms that produce extreme downpours could increase by more than 400 percent across parts of the United States - inc...
Over half of Med's shark and ray species 'at risk of extinction'
Dec 05, 2016 (AFP)
Over half of the Mediterranean's shark and ray species are at risk of extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said Monday, blaming...
US risks five-fold jump in extreme rainfall: study
Dec 05, 2016 (AFP)
Large swathes of the United States could see a five-fold jump in the frequency of extreme downpours by century's end due to climate change, according to a study...
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