A comprehensive new map and report tracking whale migrations around the globe highlights where they go in the high seas and the cumulative impacts the animals face from industrial fishing, ship strikes, pollution, habitat ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2022
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An international team of scientists led by Trinity College Dublin tagged and released a record-breaking 2.8 m porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus, off the coast of Donegal last week.
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2022
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A species of nemertean worm discovered by a Clemson University marine biologist five years ago affects the reproductive performance of Caribbean spiny lobsters, a critical species in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2023
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Flakes of paint could be one of the most abundant type of microplastic particles in the ocean, new research has suggested.
Environment
Oct 7, 2021
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In about a third of the global ocean, the abundance of life is limited by a dearth of biologically available iron. The supply of iron to a region that is depleted in this important nutrient can stimulate algal productivity, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2013
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Researchers have discovered where basking sharks - the world's second largest fish - hide out for half of every year, according to a report published today in Current Biology. The discovery revises scientists' understanding ...
Plants & Animals
May 7, 2009
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Reconstructions of past hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the most active hurricane period in the past was during the "Medieval Climate Anomaly" about a thousand years ago when climate conditions created ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2009
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The Gulf Stream, which brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe and keeps the climate mild, is only part of a larger system of oceanic currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC for ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 3, 2023
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New research, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst reveals, for the first time, not only that the coastal Northeast—from Maine to Delaware—is heating faster than most regions of North America, but that this ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2021
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The Arctic region is heating up faster than any other place on Earth, and as more and more sea ice is lost every year, we are already feeling the impacts. IIASA researchers explored strategies for cooling down the oceans ...
Environment
Dec 10, 2019
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