Biodiversity Climate Change
Heatwaves in the Intertidal
How well will intertidal organisms withstand the rising tide of climate change and heatwaves?
Tag: climate change
Climate Change
The Increasing Rates of Sea Level Rise
How and why the global ocean levels are increasing faster and faster every year.
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.
Alternative Energy
Waves of the Future
Should we risk disrupting rocky shore ecology in order to capture wave energy?
Climate Change Human impacts
Super Trees: The Importance of Mangrove Survival
How might climate change be impacting mangrove survival?
Coral Pollution
The Other Side of Plastic Pollution
Research shows that some marine debris can actually be useful to marine animals.
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.
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.
Chemistry Ocean Acidification
The mineral that could help solve climate change
Could a simple mineral be part of the key to fixing ocean acidification?
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.
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...
Climate Change
Climate change and the deep ocean
Melting polar ice sheets are heating the deep ocean and slowing ocean currents.
Behavior
Home is where the color is: Anemonefishes prefer unbleached sea anemones
How do fish respond to bleached sea anemones?
Coastal Management
Are seagrasses our climate change superheroes?
Researchers use satellite data to assess the carbon sequestration potential of seagrass beds in the Bahamas
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?
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.
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.
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.
Climate Change
Phytoplankton Fighting Against Climate Change
As the ocean becomes hotter and more acidic, phytoplankton have to change their survival tactics.
Glaciers
Vanishing ice: Where is Greenland going?
Scientists journey to the Arctic circle to track meltwater from Greenland's largest marine-terminating glacier.