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Showing posts with label Marine Biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marine Biology. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2025

Climate change may increase the spread of neurotoxin in the oceans

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The researchers’ findings raise concerns about how climate change may affect the levels of methylmercury in fish and shellfish. Photo Credit...

Lessons from Ascension’s shark troubles could help boost conservation

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Sharks at the coast of Ascension Island. Photo Credit Kate Downes Understanding people’s attitudes to interactions with sharks could help ha...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Critically endangered shark meat sold in US stores

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Image Credit: Gillie Sibrian/UNC-Chapel Hill Critically endangered shark meat is being sold at American grocery stores — often under mislead...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Rare glimpse at understudied ecosystem prompts caution on deep-sea mining

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Some of the animals identified in the deep-sea that spend their life in the benthic boundary layer. Photo Credit: Gabrielle Ellis An enormou...

What Is: Microplastics

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Microplastic Credit: Scientific Frontline The Invisible Tide of Plastic The modern era has been defined, in part, by the versatility and ubi...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

3D-printed shelters increase baby coral survival rates

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Researchers place the modules onto experimental tables in Kāneʻohe Bay. Photo Credit: Jessica Reichert To dramatically increase coral surviv...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Study first to show if nesting heat affects sea turtle hatchling ‘IQ’

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A loggerhead hatchling goes through the Y-maze to test its learning abilities. Photo Credit: Sarah Milton, Florida Atlantic University As sa...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Global ‘Noahʻs Ark’ to safeguard coral reefs, led by UH scientists

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Acropora muricata, Heron Island, Australia. Photo Credit: Claire Lager, Smithsonian In a landmark effort to combat the devastating effects o...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Clownfish and Anemones Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change

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A Red Sea clownfish (Amphiprion bicinctus) peers out of a bleached sea anemone (Radianthus magnifica) during a record-breaking heat wave in ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Coral reefs set to stop growing as climate warms

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Dead reef crest on Mexico's Caribbean coast. Photo Credit Chris Perry Most coral reefs will soon stop growing and may begin to erode – a...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Women of Science: A Legacy of Achievement

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Future generations to pursue their passions and break down barriers in the pursuit of knowledge. Image Credit: Scientific Frontline stock im...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

New technology lights way for accelerating coral reef restoration

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Improving coral feeding habits can have a positive domino effect on the marine ecosystem. Photo Credit:  Francesco Ungaro Scientists have de...

Whale poop contains iron that may have helped fertilize past oceans

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A blue whale photographed in September 2010. Photo Credit: NOAA The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous qua...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Apex predators in prehistoric Colombian oceans would have snacked on killer whales today

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. Illustration of some of the apex predators in the Paja Formation biota with a human for scale. Illustration Credit: Guillermo Torres, Hace...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Deep parts of Great Barrier Reef ‘insulated’ from global warming – for now

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Mesophotic corals on the Great Barrier Reef. Photo Credit Prof Peter Mumby Some deeper areas of the Great Barrier Reef are insulated from ha...
Friday, April 5, 2024

Tomorrow's reefs – the importance of environmental awareness in coral restoration

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Restoration nursery in the northern Red Sea of smooth cauliflower coral (Stylophora pistillata), almost ready for reef transplantation. Clas...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Shy sea anemones are more likely to survive heatwaves

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Photo Credit: Praveen Kenderla Even in nature, pride can prevail. A study with researchers from the University of Gothenburg shows that sea ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

AI breakthrough: UH researchers help uncover climate impact on whales

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Underside of a humpback whale’s tail fluke which can serve as a “finger-print” for identification. Photo Credit: Adam Pack More than 10,000 ...
Friday, March 29, 2024

‘Back to the Future’ to Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef

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Alex Modys, Ph.D., diving at the coral death assemblage in Pompano Ridge and digging up a subfossil coral, Orbicella annularis. Photo Credit...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Hypoxia is widespread and increasing in the ocean off the Pacific Northwest coast

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In late August, OSU's Jack Barth and his colleagues deployed a glider that traversed Oregon’s near-shore waters from Astoria to Coos Bay...