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Vast Methane-Based Ecosystem Uncovered
A marine research expedition
has led to the discovery of
perhaps the world's largest
methane cold seep. The seep
lies deep in the western
North Atlantic Ocean, far
from the life-sustaining
... > full story
Study Reveals How Fishing Gear Can Cause Slow Death of Whales
Using a "patient monitoring"
device attached to a whale
entangled in fishing gear,
scientists showed for the
first time how fishing lines
changed a whale's diving and
... > full story
Fourteen Closely Related Crocodiles Existed Around 5 Million Years Ago
Today, the most diverse
species of crocodile are
found in northern South
America and Southeast Asia:
As many as six species of
... > full story
Abundance and Distribution of Hawaiian Coral Species Predicted by Model
Researchers have developed
species distribution models
of the six dominant Hawaiian
coral species around the
main Hawaiian Islands,
... > full story
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Changing Arctic: What Should Be Done?
May 21, 2013 — In two critical reports released at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna, Sweden on May 15th, scientists helped inform an international body of senior government officials about changing ... > full story -
Amazon River Exhales Virtually All Carbon Taken Up by Rainforest
May 20, 2013 — Woody plant matter is almost completely digested by bacteria living in the Amazon River. This tough stuff plays a major part in fueling the river's breath. The finding has implications for global ... > full story -
Why We Need to Put the Fish Back Into Fisheries
May 19, 2013 — Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world’s oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable shellfish. However, ... > full story -
Roots of Future Tropical Rainfall: Sea Level Influenced Tropical Climate During the Last Ice Age
May 19, 2013 — How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the ... > full story -
New Era of Fisheries Policy Needed to Secure Nutrition for Millions
May 17, 2013 — A new study argues that for fisheries policies to be effective they must take in to account not just fish stock conservation and environmental issues, but also research data on the patterns and ... > full story -
First Ever Underwater University Lectures
May 17, 2013 — Students at the University of Essex have taken their lectures to a whole new level -- 18 metres under the sea in remote Indonesia to be ... > full story -
Topography of Eastern Seaboard Muddles Ancient Sea Level Changes
May 16, 2013 — The distortion of the ancient shoreline and flooding surface of the US Atlantic Coastal Plain are the direct result of fluctuations in topography in the region and could have implications on ... > full story -
World's Biggest Ice Sheets Likely More Stable Than Previously Believed
May 16, 2013 — A new study suggests that the previous connections scientists made between ancient shoreline height and ice volumes are erroneous and that perhaps our ice sheets were more stable in the past than we ... > full story -
World's Melting Glaciers Making Large Contribution to Sea Rise
May 16, 2013 — While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets ... > full story -
Coral Reef Fishes Prove Invaluable in the Study of Evolutionary Ecology
May 16, 2013 — Coral reef fish species have proven invaluable for experimental testing of key concepts in social evolution and already have yielded insights about the ultimate reasons for female reproductive ... > full story
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