How do you find your food? Most animal species, whether they rummage through a refrigerator or stalk prey in the wild, obtain nutrients by consuming living organisms. Plants, for the most part, adopt a different feeding, ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2016
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A new global analysis of seafood found that fish populations throughout the world's oceans are contaminated with industrial and agricultural pollutants, collectively known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The study ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2016
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New research findings suggest small marine organisms swimming in concentrated "hotspots" likely contribute to the mixing of water needed to distribute nutrients for ocean species.
Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2016
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The Pacific Ocean along the West Coast serves as a model for how other areas of the ocean could respond in coming decades as the climate warms and emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide increases. This region—the ...
Environment
Jan 11, 2016
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A new subsea camera has been developed that can see two to three times further under water than existing cameras and calculate distances to objects. This will make work carried out under water much easier.
Engineering
Jan 8, 2016
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Why do whales use echolocation when bacteria do not? Because body size determines available sensing modes, argue researchers from Center for Ocean Life
Plants & Animals
Sep 22, 2015
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Marine phytoplankton have been prodded, poked, sampled and studied by generations of scientists, but the ocean-dwelling organisms still have the power to surprise. A team headed by UCI oceanographer Katherine Mackey has discovered ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2015
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Marine organisms living in acidified waters exhibit a tendency to nurture their offspring to a greater extent than those in more regular conditions.
Environment
Aug 12, 2015
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How clouds form and how they help set the temperature of the earth are two of the big remaining questions in climate research. Now, a study of clouds over the world's remotest ocean shows that ocean life is responsible for ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 17, 2015
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In an article published today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Bergen (Norway), IRTA Institute of Marine Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Institute of Evolutionary ...
Evolution
Jul 17, 2015
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