The Census of Marine Life is a global network of scientists and marine professionals in more than 80 countries engaged in a 10 year study to assess and explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the oceans. A full report, entitled Census of Marine Life—Past, Present and Future has a planned publishing date of 2010. Informative news releases posted on the COML Web site are posted routinely for readers to track the progress of the census.
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The oceans cover 71% of our planet, with over half with a depth greater than 3000 m. Although our knowledge is still very limited, we know that the deep ocean contains a diversity of habitats and ecosystems, supports high ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 2, 2011
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Scientists have just returned from a voyage with samples of rare animals and more than 10 possible new species in a trip which they say has revolutionised their thinking about deep-sea life in the Atlantic Ocean.
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2010
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Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2009
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A free online portal is providing deep-sea researchers and managers with new tools for finding and accessing information on the biological communities that live on seamounts (undersea mountains), facilitating improved management ...
Other
Mar 12, 2009
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Earth's unique, forbidding ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets to Census of Marine Life explorers, who were especially surprised to find at least 235 species live in both polar seas despite ...
Feb 15, 2009
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Web visitors can now share the excitement of Census of Marine Life explorations as scientists uncover the mysteries of what lives below the surface of the global ocean.
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2009
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A rapid, climate change-induced northern migration of invasive marine is one of many research results announced Tues. Nov. 11 during opening day presentations at the First World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Ciudad de ...
Nov 10, 2008
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Bluefin tuna disappeared from Danish waters in the 1960s. Now the species could become depleted throughout the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean, according to analyses by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua) ...
Environment
Nov 7, 2008
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Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a reef off northwestern Australia -- waters long familiar to divers.
Sep 18, 2008
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