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 ...
We retrieve P diving waves by applying seismic interferometry to ambient-noise records observed at Long Beach, California, and invert travel times of these waves to estimate 3-D P wave velocity...
Paleoclimate proxy evidence suggests that the climatic impacts of Heinrich events extended far beyond the North Atlantic basin (1). Enduring questions include whether Heinrich events initiated ...
Using tiny ground tremors generated by the rumble of cars and trucks across highways, the activities within offices and homes, pedestrians crossing the street and even airplanes flying overhead...
Our understanding of Antarctica’s subsurface environments has advanced dramatically in recent decades. We now know that subglacial water is widespread with at least half of the areas covered b...
