(Phys.org)—Biologists at UC San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that marine algae can be just as capable as fresh water algae in producing biofuels.

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 26, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Guatemala has set up 2,800 artificial reefs along its Pacific coast to see how they can protect marine life and help fisherman.

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 25, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

The European parliament on Thursday called a definitive halt to shark finning, the long contested practice of fishermen slicing off fins and throwing the live body overboard to drown.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 22, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 5

At least one-third of the species that inhabit the world's oceans may remain completely unknown to science. That's despite the fact that more species have been described in the last decade than in any previous ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 15, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Australian marine scientists have unearthed evidence of an historic coral collapse in Queensland's Palm Islands following development on the nearby mainland.

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 08, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

Researchers from Australia and Saudi Arabia launched a project Thursday which they hope will help them understand the genetic makeup of corals and how they react to climate change.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 08, 2012 not rated yet 0

Researchers have discovered why plants and animals had a hard time recovering from the largest mass extinction in Earth's history 250 million years ago.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Nov 05, 2012 4 / 5 (8) 0 |

The ability of deep-sea corals to harbor a broad array of marine life, including commercially important fish species, make these habitat-forming organisms of immediate interest to conservationists, managers, ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 23, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Sweden's only remaining cold-water coral reef, the Säcken reef in the Koster Fjord, is under threat of extinction. Because of that, researchers from the University of Gothenburg have started a restoration project where healthy ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 22, 2012 not rated yet 0

Long spared because of their remoteness, the high seas have become an important hunting ground for fish trawlers and oil prospectors, putting at risk many marine species that call these waters home.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 17, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Flinders University researcher Dr Jan Bekker is on a mission to chemically fingerprint South Australia's marine sponges, with the wider aim of identifying new compounds that could ultimately ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Oct 11, 2012 not rated yet 0

Coral specialist Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, recently published the description of a new coral species that lives on the ceilings of caves in Indo-Pacific ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 11, 2012 not rated yet 0

Newly described species points to richer marine biodiversity in Guam waters than previously understood.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 10, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—A longterm study conducted by researchers at George Mason University may be a benchmark in determining health threats to marine mammals.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 02, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Speaking at the Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World this week in Monterey, California, Dr Daniela Schmidt, a geologist from the University of Bristol, warned that current rates ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 27, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1