Climate Change
A silver lining: How warming waters in the Gulf of Maine gave lobsters a leg up
Warming coastal waters in New England have been linked to a decline in lobsters in southern New England, but a…
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Power plays in low carbon pathways: how elite groups may influence a green transition
Learn how elite groups can guide and shape climate initiatives (spoiler alert: it's spoooooky) - and what we can do…
Biological oceanography Climate Change Ecology
Gentoo Penguins as Indicators of Climate Change in the Southern Ocean
Carpenter-Kling, T., et al. “Gentoo penguins as sentinels of climate change at the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Archipelago, Southern Ocean.” Ecological…
Biological oceanography Climate Change Ocean Acidification
Who’s benefiting from increasing CO2?
Bach, L. T., Hernández-Hernández, N., Taucher, J., Spisla, C., Sforna, C., Riebesell, U., & Arístegui, J. (2019). Effects of elevated…
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Sunlight May Stimulate Breakdown of Ocean Plastic
A new study suggests that one form of plastic might not take as long to break down in the ocean…
Climate Change Human impacts
The Largest Belt on Earth?
What golden, gooey, and weighs 20 million metric tons??
Climate Change
Caught in the Storm: Tropical Bird Sightings in Nova Scotia after Hurricane Dorian
Dorian was one of the biggest storms to hit Nova Scotia in recorded history, bringing with it Category 2 force…
Climate Change
Lost in transmission: how the delivery of electricity has its own carbon emissions
The life cycle of electric power is more complex than we give it credit for. Learn how researchers have estimated…
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The Sound of (Fish) Music
The ocean contains a symphony of sounds. A new study describes a novel method for capturing the chorus "sung" by…
Climate Change
Telling the complicated story of Atlantic Salmon with the help of genetic technology
Plamu Salmo salar (or “Atlantic Salmon”, “Black Salmon”, or “Plamu” as it’s known in my neck of the woods)…
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Can Coral Reefs Strangled By Algae Recover?
“Experimental support for alternative attractors on coral reefs”, Russell J. Schmitt, Sally J. Holbrook, Samantha L. Davis, Andrew J.Brooks, Thomas C. Adam, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2019, 116 (10) 4372-4381; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812412116…
Climate Change Human impacts
Tracking the transience of lake ice in a changing climate
Changes in seasonal lake ice are threatening the lives of those who depend on it. Find out how scientists are…
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Global Warming Increases Cold-Stun in Sea Turtles
Global warming along the eastern United States is causing sea turtles to travel further northward during the summer, but as…
Climate Change
What’s Killing Seabirds in the Bering Sea?
Jones T, Divine LM, Renner H, Knowles S, Lefebvre KA, Burgess HK, et al. (2019) Unusual mortality of Tufted puffins…
Climate Change
Pacific flushing leads to carbon dioxide surges
While it might seem silly to care about what the ocean was doing 10,000 years ago, these old oceans impacted…
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Ecology of Fear: Current Implications of Orca Presence on Narwhal Behavior and Future Trends
The ecology of fear is a hypothesis that predators drive habitat use and behavior in prey species. In the Arctic,…
Climate Change
Do we know what it means to engineer the climate?
At this point, it's undeniable that the climate is changing rapidly. What are our options for mitigation? Many scientists are…
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Phytoplankton Expanding Northward as Arctic Sea Ice Retreats
A recent study uses satellite data to show that Arctic sea ice retreat is causing changes in the timing and…
Climate Change
Holding fast: kelp in Nova Scotia tries to grow on turf algae after a period of decline
Kelp has had a few rough decades that have led to the decline that threatens not only kelp but the…
Biochemistry Climate Change Physical oceanography Remote Sensing
Antarctic Eddies Suck Carbon from the Atmosphere
A recent study from researchers at the University of Tasmania investigates the relationship between ocean eddies and phytoplankton growth in…