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It Pays to Keep Salmon Fit: Salmon Farmers Could Save Big by Exercising Their Fish More -- Without Overexerting Them
September 5, 2012 — Salmon farmers could save huge sums by exercising their fish more. Researchers in Norway have tested various swimming exercise regimes for three years on salmon fry. The findings indicate that ... > full story -
Northwest Barents Sea Warmed Substantially During the Last Decades
September 5, 2012 — A recent study by researchers in Norway shows that the northwest Barents Sea warmed substantially during the last decades. The temperature of the subsurface Atlantic Water in the northern Barents Sea ... > full story -
Human Impact Felt on Black Sea Long Before Industrial Era
September 4, 2012 — Researchers have pieced together a unique history of the Danube River delta and watershed that ultimately provides evidence for a transformative impact of humans on the Black Sea over hundreds, if ... > full story -
Coastline Erosion Due to Rise in Sea Level Greater Than Previously Thought, New Model Finds
September 4, 2012 — A new model is allowing researchers to predict coastline erosion due to rising sea levels much more accurately. It would appear that the effects of coastline erosion as a result of rising sea-level ... > full story -
Finicky Young Wrasse Want Shrimp
September 4, 2012 — Ballan wrasse are picky eaters when young. As adults, they eat sea lice off the skin of salmon – which makes them valuable to fish farmers. But as juveniles, wrasse want to be served ... > full story -
Tracking Fish Through a Coral Reef Seascape: Ear-Bone 'Tree Rings' Provide Evidence of Connectivity
September 3, 2012 — Ocean scientists have long known that juvenile coral reef fishes use coastal seagrass and mangrove habitats as nurseries, later moving as adults onto coral reefs. But the fishes' movements, and the ... > full story -
Research Reveals Contrasting Consequences of a Warmer Earth
September 3, 2012 — A new study involving analysis of fossil and geological records going back 540 million years suggests that biodiversity on Earth generally increases as the planet warms. But the research says that ... > full story -
'Weird Chemistry' by Microbe Is Prime Source of Ocean Methane
August 30, 2012 — Up to four percent of the methane on Earth comes from the ocean's oxygen-rich waters, but scientists have been unable to identify the source of this potent greenhouse gas. Now researchers report that ... > full story -
Viruses Could Be the Key to Healthy Corals
August 30, 2012 — Scientists have developed a treatment for the white plague disease that infects coral based on a medication developed to treat bacterial infections in humans. The therapy ceased the progression of ... > full story -
Coral Scientists Use New Model to Find Where Corals Are Most Likely to Survive Climate Change
August 30, 2012 — Marine conservationists have identified heat-tolerant coral species living in locations with continuous background temperature variability as those having the best chance of surviving climate change, ... > full story
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