by Underwatertimes.com News Service – April 26, 2012 21:08 EST CLAYTON SOUTH, Victoria — A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world’s oceans, signaling shifts and an acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle. In a paper published today in the journal Science, Australian scientists from CSIRO and the Lawrence Livermore […]
PHUKET MARINE BIOLOGICAL CENTRE RESEARCH BULLETIN No 71 – free online access A compilation of papers (listed below) covering the major bleaching event in Thai waters in 2010 has recently been published. The papers include those considering the physical factors leading to bleaching; the ecological impacts of the bleaching event and previous bleaching events dating […]
Posted on April 27, 2012 by Bob Berwyn By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Leading scientists from around the world warned that unbridled commerical fishing in newly thawed Arctic waters is likely to result in resource depletion similar to what’s occurred in other areas. “The ability to fish is not the same as having the […]
By DAN JOLING, Associated Press. Thursday, April 19, 2012 Three environmental groups are taking aim at how federal agencies approve dispersants to break up oil spills in marine waters. The groups on Wednesday sued the Environmental Protection Agency and the Coast Guard, claiming the agencies have failed to make sure they know how chemicals in […]
by Underwatertimes.com News Service – April 26, 2012 19:11 EST SILVER SPRING, Maryland — The recent rise in sightings of non-native Asian tiger shrimp off the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts has government scientists working to determine the cause of the increase and the possible consequences for native fish and seafood in those […]
Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:50 AM ET Content provided by Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Tiny sharks about the size of a human hand have a superpower of sorts: their bellies glow, according to new research that also showed these smalleye pygmy sharks use the glow to hide from predators lurking below. Scientists had proposed the smalleye […]
Wildlife and Wetlands Two Years into the Gulf Oil Disaster National Wildlife Federation 04-10-2012 // Jaclyn McDougal As the two-year mark of the Deepwater Horizon blowout approaches, the National Wildlife Federation issued a new report today examining the health of the Gulf’s wildlife and wetlands. Impacts from the Gulf oil disaster will be unfolding for […]
April 5, 2012 by RK at Coral Hub Logging hundreds of images, in the field, bleary eyed, late at night, is not my strong suite and so it was that I recently discovered a curious mistake whereby a “coral disease” on closer inspection turned out to be a sponge – read on! This article […]
By, Scott Sincoff, ENN. Published April 2, 2012 09:28 PM A new study has increased hope that some coral species will be able to survive gradual ocean acidification. According to new research published in the journal, Nature Climate Change, a team of international scientists have identified a specific internal mechanism that could permit some coral […]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2012) — Picky females play a critical role in the survival and diversity of species, according to a Nature study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. To date, biodiversity theories have focused on the role played by adaptations to […]