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Researchers release 'Frankenturtles' into Chesapeake Bay
Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)
It was a dark and stormy night in the laboratory, and jagged bolts of lightning lit the sky as Dr. Kaplan and his assistant Bianca stitched the pieces of the li...
Modern mussel shells much thinner than 50 years ago
Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)
Shells of California mussels collected from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington in the 1970s are on average 32 percent thicker than modern specimens, ...
Taiwan lawmakers urge Formosa probe over Vietnam fish deaths
Jun 16, 2016 (AFP)
Taiwanese lawmakers urged the government Thursday to investigate local conglomerate Formosa's possible role in mass fish deaths in Vietnam, as activists said in...
Algorithm ranks thermotolerance of algae
Jun 16, 2016 (SPX)
Northwestern University researchers have developed a quantitative tool that might help bring back coral from the brink of extinction. The novel algorithm could ...
Study finds native Olympia oysters more resilient to ocean acidification
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Native Olympia oysters, which once thrived along the Pacific Northwest coast until over-harvesting and habitat loss all but wiped them out, have a built-in resi...
Costa Rica adds hydroelectric dam to clean energy grid
Jun 15, 2016 (AFP)
A giant cement structure rises from the river in the middle of Costa Rica's Caribbean tropical forest, and its turbines spin, each rotation putting the Central ...
Study finds native Olympia oysters more resilient to ocean acidification
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
Native Olympia oysters, which once thrived along the Pacific Northwest coast until over-harvesting and habitat loss all but wiped them out, have a built-in resi...
Scientists use underwater robots to study India's monsoon
Jun 14, 2016 (AFP)
Scientists from Britain and India will release underwater robots into the Bay of Bengal in a bid to more accurately predict the Indian monsoon critical to milli...
New 'water-oozing' nanorods could be used to harvest H2O
Jun 13, 2016 (UPI)
When an experiment-gone-wrong produced peculiar carbon-rich nanorods, researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory decided to take a closer look. Th...
NOAA, USGS, partners predict an average 'dead zone' for Gulf of Mexico
Jun 13, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists forecast that this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone - an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life - will be approximately 5,898 squ...
A surprising variety of bioluminescent ocean fish
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
A study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE this week shows that bioluminescence - the production of light from a living organism - is more widespread among marin...
Navy oceanic survey ship makes maiden voyage
Jun 10, 2016 (UPI)
A new oceanographic survey vessel for the U.S. Navy has completed its maiden voyage, sailing from Pascagoula, Miss., to Port Everglades, Fla. A civilian survey ...
Researchers take prints of storms on the ocean floor
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
Human fingerprints are unique identifiers. The wiggles, curves and ripples cannot be copied or duplicated and provide a distinct signature that represents an in...
Coral killers
Jun 09, 2016 (SPX)
Sometimes good fish go bad. But it's not their fault. In a three-year effort to understand the effects of known stressors such as overfishing and nutrient pollu...
Scientists craft an artificial seawater concoction
Jun 09, 2016 (SPX)
Microbiologists have concocted an artificial seawater medium that can be used to successfully cultivate abundant marine microorganisms, many of which have not b...
Annual monsoon arrives in drought-hit India
Jun 08, 2016 (AFP)
Annual monsoon rains arrived in southern India on Wednesday, easing fears of millions of desperate farmers after two straight years of drought, the weather depa...
Removal of dams in New England can help increase watershed resilience
Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)
Dam removal in New England is not only an important aspect of river restoration but it also provides an opportunity to enhance the magnitude and rate of river r...
Rainfall following drought linked to historic nitrate levels in Midwest streams in 2013
Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)
Drought periods followed by rainfall caused nitrate levels to increase to the highest ever measured in some Midwest streams during a 2013 study, according to a ...
Gaps in sea-floor mapping carry hefty price, experts warn
Jun 08, 2016 (AFP)
Lack of knowledge about the ocean floor is inflicting a heavy cost in oil exploration, fishery management and plane crash investigations, experts said Wednesday...
Coral reefs fall victim to overfishing, pollution, ocean warming
Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)
One of the longest and largest studies of coral reef health ever undertaken finds that corals are declining worldwide because a variety of threats - overfishing...
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