Science news articles about 'marine habitat'

... NOAA). Since the route to the LNG terminal takes vessels through prime whale habitat, researchers and regulators from the sanctuary and NOAA Fisheries worked with the Port’s licensing agencies (the ...

... in Brazil. "That's the good news. The bad news is that only a small percentage of marine habitats in the Abrolhos are protected, despite mounting localized and global threats." Localized threats ...

... (ROVs) enabled detailed studies of delicate marine animals too fragile to collect. Similar ... Census research include the identification of vulnerable marine habitats in the Southern Ocean, based on CAML ...

... support for the use of marine reserves as a tool for managing fisheries and protecting marine habitats, according to biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A recent study in the Gulf ...

... successful invasions of shallow water tropical habitats in the past 40 million years. This finding ... shallow-water species have built these different marine habitats is still poorly understood. Our study ...

... to Jerry Ault, Ph.D., professor of marine biology and fisheries at UM's Rosenstiel School ... of 151 square nautical miles of protected marine habitat. A complete report on the expedition is anticipated ...

... pain. Shipworms, the marine equivalent of termites and the scourge of wooden structures in estuarine and marine habitats worldwide, are the focus of the third aim. A relative of the clam, these ...

... of the North Pacific Ocean, possibly a result of changes in the marine habitat due to greenhouse gas warming. Van Mooy and colleagues discovered that phytoplankton in the open ocean may ...

... have resulted in the disappearance of 85 percent of all oyster reefs, making the ecosystem one of the most severely affected marine habitats in the world, according to a study released Thursday.

Destruction of seagrass on a par with loss of rainforests and coral reefs.

... from pesticides inorganic pollutants from urban runoff direct impact of human populations on coastal marine habitats. Halpern explained that a large portion of the world's coastlines experience ...