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Biotechnology Jun 22, 2023

Exploring profitable by-products from shellfish waste

Australia's lobster and shellfish industries could reap substantial financial benefits by using shell waste to create new products identified by Flinders University's Center for Marine Bioproduct Development.

Plants & Animals Jun 21, 2023

Caribbean seagrasses provide services worth $255B annually, including vast carbon storage, study shows

Discussions of valuable but threatened ocean ecosystems often focus on coral reefs or coastal mangrove forests. Seagrass meadows get a lot less attention, even though they provide wide-ranging services to society and store ...

Plants & Animals Jun 14, 2023

'Smartphones' for sharks: Scientists upgrade sensors to keep track of Cape Cod's white sharks

Scientists monitoring the white shark population in the waters off Massachusetts' Cape Cod are attaching improved sensors, including cameras, to the predators to help scientists keep track of their whereabouts and to keep ...

Environment Jun 1, 2023

Quantifying mangroves' value as a climate solution and economic engine

A small Central American country is charting a path to slowing climate change, while boosting the economy and making communities safer. A new Stanford-led study quantifies the value of Belize's coastal mangrove forests in ...

Ecology May 18, 2023

Deep learning system can analyze images to protect deep-sea coral reefs much faster than humans

Hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface, where the sunlight gives way to darkness, coral reefs play host to a remarkable range of bottom-dwelling species. These deep-sea reefs are home to squat lobsters, seaspiders, ...

Environment May 11, 2023

Study shines spotlight on threats from lost fishing gear

Researchers probing one Canada's most productive fishing regions have found the area off Nova Scotia's southern tip is littered with bundles of snarled rope, drifting lobster pots and abandoned buoys that foul the marine ...

Plants & Animals May 11, 2023

Whales in the Southern Ocean are becoming increasingly thinner due to global warming, suggests study

In the month of June, when winter bites in the southern hemisphere and the sea around the Antarctic freezes over, right whales swim north. Many of them gather in the bay outside the town of Hermanus in South Africa.

Ecology May 8, 2023

Ecologists deploy prawns in a big disease battle

Giulio De Leo tries never to touch the water in the lower basin of the Senegal River. Even when the weather tops 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the Stanford ecologist and his team of researchers slide into thick plastic waders that ...

Plants & Animals May 3, 2023

Indo-Pacific corals found to be more resilient to climate change than Atlantic corals

In the face of global warming and other environmental changes, corals in the Atlantic Ocean have declined precipitously in recent years, while corals in the Pacific and Indian Oceans are faring better. By describing several ...

Paleontology & Fossils May 2, 2023

'Golden' fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation

All that glitters is not gold, or even fool's gold in the case of fossils.

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