Don't count on whales as 'climate savers,' says study
Do whales increase the removal of carbon from the atmosphere?
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2023
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Underwater forest's recovery offers hope for marine restoration across the globe
Human activity has degraded ecosystems and damaged biodiversity around the world, but ecosystem restoration offers hope for the future. Scientists studying the restoration of underwater seaweed forests which provide other ...
Ecology
Jun 2, 2023
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Swift, deadly epidemic kills all the black sea urchins in Gulf of Eilat, posing threat to Eilat's coral reef
A series of new, disturbing studies from Tel Aviv University reveals a deadly epidemic causing mass mortality of black sea urchins in the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Eilat. The entire population of black sea urchins ...
Plants & Animals
May 23, 2023
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'Sea butterfly' life cycle threatened by climate change may impact Southern Ocean ecosystem
The world's oceans absorb approximately a quarter of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. During absorption, CO2 reacts with seawater and oceanic pH levels fall. This is known as ocean acidification and results in lower carbon ...
Plants & Animals
May 11, 2023
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Singing the blues: More whale songs detected during La Niña years
You might think it'd be easy to track an animal as large as a blue whale. But don't let their size fool you—they're incredibly hard to study using conventional methods.
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2023
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Feces from coral-eating fish may act as 'probiotics' for reefs
Until recently, fish that eat coral—corallivores—were thought to weaken reef structures, while fish that consume algae and detritus—grazers—were thought to keep reefs healthy. But scientists have discovered that feces ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2023
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Minimalist art inspires a set of tools to maximize coral restoration
A toolkit for environmentally friendly and cost-effective coral restoration could accelerate the recovery of degraded reefs along the coast of Saudi Arabia and beyond.
Ecology
Apr 6, 2023
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Sea otters killed by unusual parasite strain
Four sea otters that stranded in California died from an unusually severe form of toxoplasmosis, according to a study from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the University of California, Davis. The disease ...
Ecology
Mar 22, 2023
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How listening to North Atlantic right whales could help humans protect them
North Atlantic right whales have cruised the waters off Canada and the eastern seaboard for millennia as they pursue their preferred food source—crustaceans the size of a grain of rice.
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2023
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Study shows links between Australia's false killer whales and endangered groups from Hawaii
False killer whales off the Northern Australia coast need their conservation status reviewed because of similarities they share with groups from Hawaii listed as Endangered in the U.S., a Charles Darwin University (CDU) researcher ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2023
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