、 Colony of the symmetrical brain coral, Pseudodiploria strigosa, that is a common reef-building coral in the Caribbean. When under stress, these animals may harbor a species of mutualisti...
The Earth warms both when fossil fuel carbon is oxidized to carbon dioxide and when greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide inhibits longwave radiation from escaping to space. Various important tim...
What if the missing heat has been there all along? In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) flagged an odd phenomenon: Atmospheric temperature data collected over the past ...
American Eels of the upper St. Lawrence grow slowly but attain larger sizes (top) compared with eels in coastal areas (bottom).Credit: Guy Verreault/Current Biology 2015The American eel has bee...
Latest NOAA Study Ties Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill to Spike in Gulf Dolphin Deaths MAY 20, 2015 -- What has been causing the alarming increase in dead bottlenose dolphins along the northern...
Last year a team from The University of Manchester discovered an ‘extremophile’ microorganism in the Peak District, capable of breaking down organic material that is present in nuclear waste,...
Coral reefs are considered one of the most vulnerable ecosystems to future climate change due to rising sea surface temperatures and ocean acidification, which is caused by higher atmospheric l...
A glass of seawater is teeming with life, and a recent expedition revealed more about what ocean water contains. Microscopic creatures in the world’s oceans weigh more than all of the fish in ...
The marine flowering plant also helps sustain abundant sea life and protects shorelines around the world from coastal erosion. Yet with seagrass habitats suffering rapid global decline and ...
