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Tag: climate change

Heatwaves in the Intertidal
Biodiversity Climate Change

Heatwaves in the Intertidal

How well will intertidal organisms withstand the rising tide of climate change and heatwaves?
February 17, 2025 Neeharika Verma
The Increasing Rates of Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

The Increasing Rates of Sea Level Rise

How and why the global ocean levels are increasing faster and faster every year.
November 25, 2024December 28, 2024 Jasper Meagher
What tiny fossils can tell us about a biodiversity hotspot
Biodiversity

What tiny fossils can tell us about a biodiversity hotspot

Ostracods unlock the mysteries of how the Coral Triangle came to be the most biodiverse region on the planet.
October 28, 2024 Ingrid Bartlett
Waves of the Future
Alternative Energy

Waves of the Future

Should we risk disrupting rocky shore ecology in order to capture wave energy?
October 7, 2024 Braden Furness
Super Trees: The Importance of Mangrove Survival
Climate Change Human impacts

Super Trees: The Importance of Mangrove Survival

How might climate change be impacting mangrove survival?
September 20, 2024September 22, 2024 Jordana Portman
The Other Side of Plastic Pollution
Coral Pollution

The Other Side of Plastic Pollution

Research shows that some marine debris can actually be useful to marine animals.
June 22, 2024September 22, 2024 Jordana Portman
Where there’s a (Gray) whale, there’s an Orca
Climate Change Ecology

Where there’s a (Gray) whale, there’s an Orca

Voracious Orcas are affecting the population dynamics of Gray whales migrating to their feeding grounds.
December 22, 2023December 22, 2023 Neeharika Verma
Baby Sharks in Hot Water: How Water Deoxygenation is Negatively Impacting Smallspotted Catsharks
Climate Change

Baby Sharks in Hot Water: How Water Deoxygenation is Negatively Impacting Smallspotted Catsharks

Scientists investigate the impact of oxygen depleted water on baby sharks.
July 31, 2023 Braden Furness
The mineral that could help solve climate change
Chemistry Ocean Acidification

The mineral that could help solve climate change

Could a simple mineral be part of the key to fixing ocean acidification?
July 26, 2023July 25, 2023 Jaclyn Torkelson
Soaking up the sun: can the ocean be used as a platform for floating solar panels?
Alternative Energy

Soaking up the sun: can the ocean be used as a platform for floating solar panels?

Scientists explore the viability of floating photovoltaic farms (FPV) on the ocean and how climate change may impact their use.
June 15, 2023 Nicole Mucci
Warming ocean temperatures may cause prawns to lose their nutritional values
Climate Change

Warming ocean temperatures may cause prawns to lose their nutritional values

Prawns are full of nutrients, but they may become less nutritious as the water they grow in continues to warm...
June 2, 2023May 25, 2023 Jiwoon Park
Climate change and the deep ocean
Climate Change

Climate change and the deep ocean

Melting polar ice sheets are heating the deep ocean and slowing ocean currents.
April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 Cory Berger
Home is where the color is: Anemonefishes prefer unbleached sea anemones
Behavior

Home is where the color is: Anemonefishes prefer unbleached sea anemones

How do fish respond to bleached sea anemones?
February 28, 2023 Katherine Grellman
Are seagrasses our climate change superheroes?
Coastal Management

Are seagrasses our climate change superheroes?

Researchers use satellite data to assess the carbon sequestration potential of seagrass beds in the Bahamas
February 16, 2023March 5, 2023 Nicole Mucci
Growing Up in an Ever-Warming Sauna
deep sea Ocean Exploration

Growing Up in an Ever-Warming Sauna

The deep-sea is warming like the rest of the world. What does this mean for the fish that live there?
January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 Jaclyn Torkelson
Striving to survive: cold water coral and warming seas
Coral deep sea

Striving to survive: cold water coral and warming seas

The poles are warming faster than anywhere else, possibly creating trouble for baby cold water coral.
December 26, 2022December 26, 2022 Jaclyn Torkelson
Some ~don’t~ like it hot: Ocean warming is bad for pelagic animals
Biological oceanography Climate Change

Some ~don’t~ like it hot: Ocean warming is bad for pelagic animals

Global ocean warming is predicted to have negative impacts on ocean animals living in the middle of the food web.
November 21, 2022November 16, 2022 Hannah Collins
Seeing the sea to be able to eat
Ecology

Seeing the sea to be able to eat

Eating with your eyes first is something seabirds also do – but climate change is making this more difficult.
July 25, 2022 Valeria Contreras
Phytoplankton Fighting Against Climate Change
Climate Change

Phytoplankton Fighting Against Climate Change

As the ocean becomes hotter and more acidic, phytoplankton have to change their survival tactics.
June 30, 2022June 24, 2022 Jaclyn Torkelson
Vanishing ice: Where is Greenland going?
Glaciers

Vanishing ice: Where is Greenland going?

Scientists journey to the Arctic circle to track meltwater from Greenland's largest marine-terminating glacier.
June 29, 2022 Mollie Passacantando

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