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Squids on the rise as oceans change
May 24, 2016 (SPX)
Unlike the declining populations of many fish species, the number of cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish and squid) has increased in the world's oceans over the pa...
South Africa detains 3 Chinese fishing vessels, 100 crew
May 23, 2016 (AFP)
South African authorities have detained three Chinese vessels and 100 crew members for allegedly illegal fishing in Indian Ocean waters off Port Elizabeth, offi...
New model could predict sudden shifts in river deltas
May 20, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers at Imperial College London are developing a new tool to predict avulsions, the sudden shift in the flow of water through a river delta. As rivers sl...
New Study Maps Rate of New Orleans Sinking
May 19, 2016 (JPL)
New Orleans and surrounding areas continue to sink at highly variable rates due to a combination of natural geologic and human-induced processes, finds a new NA...
California eases water restrictions, but drought continues
May 19, 2016 (AFP)
California has loosened emergency restrictions on water conservation after El Nino-driven storms boosted reservoir levels this winter in parts of the state, aut...
Polluted dust can impact ocean life thousands of miles away
May 19, 2016 (SPX)
As climatologists closely monitor the impact of human activity on the world's oceans, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found yet another ...
Pacific stores the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at depths of thousands of metres
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of researchers headed by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has gained new insights into the carbon dioxide exchange between oce...
Tiny ocean organism has big role in climate regulation
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered that a tiny, yet plentiful, ocean organism is playing an important role in the regulation of the Earth's climate. Research, published...
Parasite helps sea snails survive ocean acidification
May 18, 2016 (UPI)
For most species, a stressor like a parasitic infection compounds the threat of environmental change. But not for sea snails. Researchers at the University of O...
Victims of their own success
May 17, 2016 (SPX)
Acropora is able to resist natural environmental influences better than other genera of coral. In fact, it even seems to use challenges such as tropical storms ...
Philippines detains 25 Chinese, 18 Vietnamese fishermen
May 17, 2016 (AFP)
Philippine anti-poaching patrols have detained two Chinese and three Vietnamese fishing vessels along with more than three dozen crew members in the extreme nor...
Acidification and low oxygen put fish in double jeopardy
May 16, 2016 (SPX)
Severe oxygen drops in the water can leave trails of fish kills in their wakes, but scientists thought adult fish would be more resilient to the second major th...
No more sashimi, thanks: raw fish sustained Malaysia castaways
May 16, 2016 (AFP)
Four people who survived 10 days adrift in the South China Sea subsisted on raw fish and water droplets as a series of rescue opportunities slipped agonisingly ...
Northern Galapagos Islands home to world's largest shark biomass
May 16, 2016 (SPX)
In a study published in the journal PeerJ, scientists from the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) and the National Geographic Society revealed that the nort...
UCI sleuths search the seas for soot
May 13, 2016 (SPX)
Earth system scientists from the University of California, Irvine have taken water samples from the north Pacific, north and south Atlantic, and Arctic oceans i...
Study offers clues to better rainfall predictions
May 13, 2016 (SPX)
The saltiness, or salinity, of seawater depends largely on how much moisture is pulled into the air as evaporative winds sweep over the ocean. But pinpointing w...
Most streamflow in the upper Colorado River basin originates as groundwater
May 12, 2016 (SPX)
More than half of the streamflow in the Upper Colorado River Basin originates as groundwater, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study published in the j...
Rapid marsh bank sediment build up does not equate land loss resilience
May 12, 2016 (SPX)
When the banks of a marsh channel accumulate sediment at a faster rate than relative sea level rise, it may seem like the marsh is resilient. However, a new stu...
Daily up and down of the plankton animals in the sea
May 12, 2016 (SPX)
A unique series of measurements taken over several years in the Antarctic Ocean provide new findings about the daily vertical migration of zooplankton communiti...
Drought forces Coca-Cola to halt canned drinks in Namibia
May 12, 2016 (AFP)
Coca-Cola will stop production of all canned drinks in Namibia and has warned consumers of possible shortages, the company said Thursday, as a regional drought ...
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