Tag: Oceans
Volcanic eruptions once caused mass extinctions in the oceans – could...
Jeremy D. Owens, Florida State University and Theodore R. Them II, College of Charleston
All animals, whether they live on land or in the water,...
New findings on ocean warming: 5 questions answered
Scott Denning, Colorado State University
Editor’s note: A new study by scientists in the United States, China, France and Germany estimates that the world’s oceans...
To conserve ocean life, marine reserves need to protect species that...
Heather Welch, University of California, Santa Cruz and Jennifer McHenry, Florida State University
This summer, many Americans will visit national parks and wildlife refuges in...
Scientists are using DNA to study ocean life and reveal the...
Ann Bucklin, University of Connecticut
Marine zooplankton are tiny animals, roughly the size of insects you might see on a summer day, that drift with...
Meet the ocean creatures that use a mesh of mucus to...
Kelly Sutherland, University of Oregon
All animals must eat to survive. If you’ve heard the term “grazer” before, it may bring to mind familiar farm...
Climate change could alter ocean food chains, leading to far fewer...
Jefferson Keith Moore, University of California, Irvine
Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea that produce our...
There are dozens of sea snake species in the Indian and...
Harvey Lillywhite, University of Florida
Beachgoers often find unusual things that have washed up with the tides. But many people were surprised when a venomous...
Let them eat carp: Fish farms are helping to fight hunger
Ben Belton, Michigan State University; Dave Little, University of Stirling, and Simon Bush, Wageningen University
Over the past three decades, the global aquaculture industry has...
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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
