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Naturally acidic waters of Puget Sound surround UW's Friday Harbor Labs

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

For more than 100 years, marine biologists at Friday Harbor Laboratories have studied the ecology of everything from tiny marine plants to giant sea stars. Now,...

Top chefs tout anchovies, sardines to save the oceans

Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)

Top world chefs launched a campaign Tuesday to protect over-exploited fish species by promoting alternatives such as the humble anchovy, sardine and herring in ...

Research finds oceanic microbes behave in a synchrony across oceans

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Hawai'i - M?noa (UHM) and colleagues found that microbial communities in different regions of the Pacific Ocean displayed str...

Frequency of tornadoes, hail linked to El Nino, La Nina

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

Climate scientists can spot El Nino and La Nina conditions developing months ahead of time, and they use this knowledge to make more accurate forecasts of droug...

Russia Inks Major Ore Exploration Deal with International Seabed Authority

Mar 16, 2015 (Sputnik)

Russia has acquired the exclusive right to explore ore mineral resources in a section of the Pacific bed totaling 3,000 square kilometers, which is located near...

New research reveals low-oxygen impacts on West Coast groundfish

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

When low-oxygen "dead zones" began appearing off the Oregon Coast in the early 2000's, photos of the ocean floor revealed bottom-dwelling crabs that could not e...

A sea change for ocean resource management

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

Ocean ecosystems around the world are threatened by overfishing, extensive shipping routes, energy exploration, pollution and other consequences of ocean-based ...

Tracking sea turtles across hundreds of miles of open ocean

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists have long known that leatherback sea turtles travel thousands of miles each year through open ocean to get from foraging habitats to nesting beaches ...

Marine biodiversity isn't as great as scientists thought

Mar 12, 2015 (UPI)

Over the years, the literature of marine science has become a bit redundant. Recently, scholars set about to sort through the mess. After completing a review of...

How rain is dependent on soil moisture

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

The water content of soil has a great impact on the regional climate, but many of the connections are still not clear. Researchers at ETH Zurich's Institute for...

India-backed port won't dump dredge in Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)

Plans to dump dredge waste in Australia's Great Barrier Reef as part of an Indian-backed port expansion have been shelved in favour of land disposal, Queensland...

The tides they are a changin'

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists from the University of Southampton have found that ocean tides have changed significantly over the last century at many coastal locations around the ...

Penn researchers show how rivers creep and flow to shape landscapes over time

Mar 10, 2015 (SPX)

Rivers drive the evolution of Earth's surface by eroding and depositing sediment. But for nearly a century, geologists have puzzled over why theoretical models,...

Melting glaciers create noisiest places in ocean

Mar 10, 2015 (SPX)

Bubbles gushing from melting glaciers and their icebergs make fjords the noisiest places in the oceans, a new study of waters near Alaska and Antarctica shows. ...

El Nino unlikely to bring drought-ending rains to California

Mar 09, 2015 (UPI)

Scientists have been waiting for nearly two years for a concentration of warming surface water in the Pacific to develop into what known as El Nino. Last week, ...

American rower eyes finish after transatlantic odyssey

Mar 09, 2015 (AFP)

An American oarsman aiming to row across the Atlantic to raise awareness for HIV/AIDs is preparing for the final leg of his odyssey after being attacked by pira...

Nutrient pollution damages streams in ways previously unknown

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

An important food resource has been disappearing from streams without anyone noticing until now. In a new study published March 6 in the journal Science, a team...

Mystery solved: Why seashells' mineral forms differently in seawater

Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)

For almost a century, scientists have been puzzled by a process that is crucial to much of the life in Earth's oceans: Why does calcium carbonate, the tough mat...

Israel says doubling water supplies to Gaza

Mar 04, 2015 (AFP)

Israel is to double the amount of water it channels annually to Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip, a defence ministry body said Wednesday. A humanitarian...

New algal species helps corals survive in the hottest reefs on the planet

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

A new species of algae has been discovered in reef corals of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf where it helps corals to survive seawater temperatures of up to 36 degre...