Tag: Oceans
Tiny plankton drive processes in the ocean that capture twice as...
Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
The ocean plays a major role in...
Tagging data show that blue sharks are true globalists
Jasmin Graham, Florida State University
CC BY-NDBlue sharks are among the widest-ranging shark species in the oceans. We know this partly because from 1962 to...
Why are whales big, but not bigger?
Matthew Savoca, Stanford University; Jeremy Goldbogen, Stanford University, and Nicholas Pyenson, Smithsonian Institution
Both toothed and baleen (filter-feeding) whales are among the largest animals ever...
Curious Kids: How deep is the ocean?
Suzanne O'Connell, Wesleyan University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer,...
Fish larvae float across national borders, binding the world’s oceans in...
Nandini Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley; James Rising, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Kimberly Oremus, University of Delaware
Fish populations are declining...
Getting to the bottom of things: Can mining the deep sea...
Anna Metaxas, Dalhousie University and Verena Tunnicliffe, University of Victoria
It is completely dark, just above freezing cold and the pressure is crushing: this is...
Ocean warming has fisheries on the move, helping some but hurting...
Chris Free, University of California, Santa Barbara
Climate change has been steadily warming the ocean, which absorbs most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases...
Shark Week looms, but don’t panic
Gavin Naylor, University of Florida
Sharks elicit outsized fear, even though the risk of a shark bite is infinitesimally small. As a marine biologist and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
