In jade waters off Hong Kong's eastern shoreline, scientists are thrilled to spot a cuttlefish protecting her eggs inside an artificial, 3D-printed clay seabed helping to restore the city's fragile coral reefs.
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2021
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While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian-New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to managers of dolphin fisheries.
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2021
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When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean on Mar. 18, it gathered water vapor data that showed wind shear was adversely affecting Tropical Cyclone Herold.
Environment
Mar 18, 2020
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University of Otago scientists are leading research into the possibility that the shallow submarine vents off New Zealand's volcanic Whakaari/White Island could provide a natural laboratory to study the impacts of future ...
Environment
Feb 5, 2020
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Giant petrels will be "temporary" winners from the effects of climate change in the Antarctic region—but males and females will benefit in very different ways, a new study shows.
Ecology
Jun 12, 2019
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Where do tiny bits of plastic go when they are flushed out to sea?
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2019
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New research confirms that drastic changes in ocean salinity from, for example, severe freshwater flooding, as recently experienced off the coast of north-east Queensland from abnormal monsoonal conditions, provoke a similar ...
Environment
Feb 28, 2019
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Tropical cyclones can become post-tropical before they dissipate, meaning they can become sub-tropical, extra-tropical or a remnant low pressure area. As Tropical Cyclone Gelena transitioned into a subtropical storm, NASA's ...
Environment
Feb 15, 2019
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Microbes that provide natural fertilizer to the oceans by "fixing" nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form useable by other organisms were once thought to be limited to warm tropical and subtropical waters. Now, however, ...
Environment
Dec 10, 2018
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A new larval fish database collated over the last 30 years will be used to measure marine ecosystem state and change as well as seasonal patterns of various fish species.
Ecology
Oct 17, 2018
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