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Methane on the dinner menu
Bacteria in coastal waters can eat methane, a greenhouse gas - but just how much and how fast can they…
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Funny happenings in the tropical Pacific
Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas made by environmental microbes. In the ocean, microbes making this greenhouse gas live…
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A mercurial tug o’ war in Antarctic sea ice
DNA from bacteria living in Antarctic sea ice provides a clue to the mysterious origins of methyl mercury in seawater…
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From Wastewater to Seahorses to the Medicine Cabinet
Pollution of metals could be getting into the tissue of seahorses--the very tissues that are used to make a special…
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Do coral reefs help fight climate change?
Coral reefs are called the rainforests of the sea for their stunning biodiversity. But can they, like forests on land,…
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The Dirty Blizzard: how oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill reached the seafloor
Oil floats on water, yet oil spills are still devastating for marine life living on the seafloor. How does it…
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Why iron fertilization hasn’t worked
Fertilizing the ocean with iron to help algae store more carbon in the deep sea was once heralded as a…
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Dust detectives: tracing the origins of Antarctic ice core debris
Tiny dust particles punch above their weight by delivering nutrients to remote ecosystems. A new study uses the chemical fingerprint…
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Of whales and cows: the baleen whale microbiome revealed
Scientists sequenced the microbiomes of several baleen whales that are strict carnivores and found some startling similarities to the microbiomes…
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Solving Big Dam Problems
The US has a lot of dams. Probably far more than you ever imagined possible. Many of these dams are…
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One to tango: a bacterium that does the work of two in the nitrogen cycle
Scientists report bacterial species capable of performing the two-step process of nitrification, traditionally thought to exist only as a division…
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A Slick Study! Natural Oil Seeps and Chlorophyll
Oil seeps are naturally occurring sources of oil to the marine environment. This study looks at the impacts of oil…
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Sailing the Southern Ocean for science
Hear about my adventures living on an icebreaker on the Southern Ocean, deploying ocean robots to understand the chemistry and…
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Oil spill first responders: how tiny algae cultivate oil-degrading bacteria
After an oil spill, millions of oil-degrading bacteria are on the scene almost immediately. But how do they survive in…
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Rapid changes in the Southern Ocean threaten ecosystems
Rapid acidification of the Southern Ocean could occur in the next 30 years with potentially huge impacts to local ecosystems.
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Estimating carbon sequestration from plankton poop
Copepod fecal pellets—plankton poop—transport carbon from the ocean surface to the deep where it is stored for thousands of years.…
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Ocean eddies suck carbon out of the atmosphere, thanks to plankton
When phytoplankton sink into the deep ocean, they take carbon with them, storing CO2 away from the atmosphere. This new…
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Microbes foil attempts to increase deep ocean carbon sequestration
Most carbon emitted to the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, much of it in organic molecules. While most is…
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How a whole reef community’s response to OA is impacted by the individual responses of different players
Researchers from California used a unique ex situ experiment to monitor two near identical reef communities in different concentrations of…
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What is the source of organic molecules in Von Damm vent fluids?
The origin of life is with out a doubt a fascinating topic of discussion and debate, intensified by the fact…