Plants & Animals
Apr 16, 2025
Dolphins starve when seagrass dies off in Florida, study finds
Manatees are not the only marine mammals that suffer when seagrass dies off in Florida.
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Plants & Animals
Apr 15, 2025
Climate change threatens seagrass, but it proves more resilient than expected
The results of recent research reveal both the vulnerability and the surprising resilience of tropical seagrass, despite the growing threats posed by climate change. Led by Fee Smulders from Wageningen University & Research, ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2025
Engineering a better beach day: Study identifies critical elevation threshold for barrier island recovery after storms
Driving through almost any coastal town, you'll notice staples of being at the beach: ice-cream stands, seafood shacks, bridges leading to the shore. But what if they all washed away?
Environment
Apr 15, 2025
25 years of Everglades restoration has improved drinking water for millions in Florida, but a new risk is rising
Do you know where your drinking water comes from?
Environment
Apr 10, 2025
Transplanting Posidonia oceanica: A scientific advance for conservation of seagrass meadows
A study has resulted in the transplantation of 384 m² of Posidonia oceanica seagrass on the scale of an industrial project as part of maritime works in Monaco. This success challenges the idea that these ecosystems are "non-transplantable." ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 7, 2025
Scientists link a phytoplankton bloom to starving dolphins in Florida
In 2013, 8% of the bottlenose dolphins living in Florida's Indian River Lagoon died. Investigations have now revealed that the dolphins may have starved because key habitats for nutritious prey were destroyed by a phytoplankton ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2025
Artisanal fishers are almost as accurate as satellites in producing environmental data, study shows
Published in the journal Ocean and Coastal Management, the research set out to establish the value of local ecological knowledge (LEK) and its ability to generate high-quality habitat maps around five Greek islands in the ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2025
Wild weather linked to weedy seadragon deaths
Marine scientists are calling for beachgoers who find weedy seadragons washed up on the shore to photograph them and send details to researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2025
Satellite technology helps coastal data collection
Flinders University coastal experts are finding more cost-efficient ways to capture crucial seascape elevation data (bathymetry), through current research projects that are monitoring environmental change across areas of ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 13, 2025
Taking the seagrass taxi: How foraminifera move from the coast to the depths of the Red Sea
Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but also play an important role in sediment formation.
