A new study appearing in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series has found that conserving fish diversity in Madagascar's coral reef systems may depend on maintaining fish biomass above critical levels, according to scientists ...
Environment
Oct 18, 2017
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The movements of great white sharks in the Pacific and Indian oceans have long been the subject of academic study, but new research is just starting to shed light on the behavior of their Atlantic Ocean counterparts.
Ecology
Oct 7, 2017
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A global conference to better protect marine life has raised more than $7 billion and won commitments to protect huge swathes of the Earth's oceans.
Ecology
Oct 6, 2017
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Steephead parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos) are picky eaters. In the central Pacific, however, they appear to have taken matters into their own hands—er, fins.
Ecology
Sep 12, 2017
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A study by scientists at the University of Aberdeen has found that invertebrate life in the deep Arctic Ocean is more resilient to the effects of climate change than previously thought.
Environment
Jun 6, 2017
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A new WCS study reveals evidence that some corals are adapting to warming ocean waters - potentially good news in the face of recent reports of global coral die offs due to extreme warm temperatures in 2016. The study appears ...
Environment
May 2, 2017
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Debris from logging in tropical forests is threatening the survival of hatchling leatherback turtles and the success of mothers at one of the world's most important nesting sites in Colombia.
Ecology
Apr 10, 2017
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Puffin pairs that follow similar migration routes breed more successfully the following season, a new Oxford University study has found.
Plants & Animals
Apr 7, 2017
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Links between seabed type and quality are closely related to the abundance and size of young commercially fished species such as cod, haddock and whiting.
Ecology
Mar 27, 2017
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Fisheries managers have been predicting a slightly below-average run of spring Chinook salmon on the Columbia River this year but a newly published suggests that it may be worse.
Ecology
Mar 15, 2017
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