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Earth’s oceans, seas, and lakes are quickly losing their ability to keep fish alive
A study on how climate change affects our oceans reveals that tiny changes in the food chain can have massive impacts on fish ...
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The Alarming Reason Researchers Are Seeing Green Beneath The Arctic Ice
The image of the Arctic typically doesn't involve much green, so when researchers found green patches beneath the ice, they ...
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The Plan to Fertilize the Ocean With IRON
One day my marine biology professor had us all read a paper proposing the idea of fertilizing the ocean using iron to create phytoplankton blooms to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to combat ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
Scientists Are Crafting Fake Whale Poop and Dumping It in the Ocean
As research over the past several decades has shown, whales play a critical role in bolstering ocean ecosystems. Many whale ...
Tiny oceanic plankton adapted to warming during the last ice age, but probably won’t survive future climate change – new study
Scientists have compared data from the last ice age, around 21,000 years ago, and modern records to see what happened to ...
The Express Tribune1d
Why are scientists dumping fake whale poop into the oceans?
While the majestic mammals may be far fewer than they once were, their poop plays a crucial role in maintaining marine ...
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Plankton are Under Critical Threat From Ocean Acidification
Plankton are a diverse group of marine organisms, which are carried by tides and currents. Most are microscopic, but there ...
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How marine heatwaves impact ocean health
Rising ocean heatwaves disrupt marine ecosystems, threatening phytoplankton blooms, food chains, and carbon storage.
EurekAlert!1d
Of tiny organisms and their giant impact on the ocean
November 2024/Kiel. Professor Dr Susanne Neuer, renowned marine biogeochemist and professor at Arizona State University, was awarded the 31st Excellence Professorship from the Prof. Dr Werner Petersen ...
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Fish food: UH researchers study circular ocean currents’ role in phytoplankton blooms
Circular ocean currents, called “eddies,” play an important role in supplying nutrients for marine life and can stimulate ...
Boyan Slat
Slat says those early failures helped the nonprofit land on its current, more successful formula. It places contraptions that ...
Volcanic ash as a source of nutrients: How the Hunga Tonga eruption affected ecosystems in the South Pacific
The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in January 2022 ejected about 2.9 billion tons of volcanic material into the ...