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: Posted On April 20, 2020

Scientists Reveal Potential Impacts of Megafauna Extinction Under Different Future Scenarios

In a paper published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers have examined traits of marine megafauna species to better understand...

: Posted On April 20, 2020

Study Finds Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Will Change Marine Habitats

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the consequent changes created through ocean acidification will cause severe ecosystem effects,...

: Posted On April 14, 2020

A New Method for Correcting Systematic Errors in Ocean Subsurface Data

A homogeneous, consistent, high-quality in situ temperature data set covering some decades in time is crucial for the detection of climate changes...

: Posted On April 8, 2020

Scientists Develop New Way to Identify the Sex of Sea Turtle Hatchlings

Unlike humans, sea turtles and other reptiles like crocodiles do not have sex chromosomes.

: Posted On April 8, 2020

Protecting the High Seas with Big Data

Often considered desolate, remote, unalterable places, the high seas are, in fact, hotbeds of activity for both people and wildlife.

: Posted On April 7, 2020

Cold War Nuclear Bomb Tests Reveal True Age of Whale Sharks

The radioactive legacy of the arms race solves a mystery about the world's largest fish

: Posted On April 2, 2020

Study Shows Six Decades of Change in UK’s Plankton Communities

New research led by the University and published in Global Change Biology assesses the human and climate-related impacts on plankton

: Posted On April 1, 2020

Landmark Study Concludes Marine Life Can Be Rebuilt By 2050

An international study recently published in the journal Nature that was led by KAUST Professors Carlos Duarte and Susana Agustí lays out the...

: Posted On March 31, 2020

What if There Was an Alternative to Antibiotics in the Ocean?

Frédérique Le Roux, an IFREMER researcher in molecular microbiology at the Roscoff marine station (CNRS/Sorbonne Université), has won a €2.5 million...

: Posted On March 31, 2020

Land Animals Died-Off Before Marine in Earth's Largest Extinction

New dates for fossils indicate land animal turnover extended for hundreds of thousands of years

: Posted On March 31, 2020

Vulnerable Manta Rays Are Diving Deeper Than Ever Before

The reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) is a species in decline. Years of overfishing, largely for their gill rakers, a cartilaginous structure used to...

: Posted On March 30, 2020

Scientists Predict the Size of Plastics Animals Can Eat

A team of scientists at Cardiff University has, for the first time, developed a way of predicting the size of plastics different animals are likely...

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