... right whales - roughly 30 times as many as today - according to one of several astonishing reconstructions of ocean life in olden days to be presented at a Census of Marine Life conference May 26-28. ...
... collective knowledge of impacts on marine life is a mere drop in the ocean," wrote Dr Anthony ... international marine science research, just as ocean warming began accelerating.
The authors advocate ...
... international science community must devote more resources to research into the effects climate change is having on ocean environments, according to a paper recently published in the journal Science.
... more than 80 nations with the goal of assessing and explaining the diversity, distribution and abundance of ocean life – past, present and future.
Started in 2000, some 17 projects (including 14 ...
... oxygen depletion, thereby compounding the effects of the volcanic eruption and release of clouds of carbon dioxide in to the oceans and atmosphere. The result was a global oceanic anoxic event, where ...
... surprisingly large role of tropical oceans and major rivers in the oceans' total carbon uptake ... considered a net emitter of carbon from the respiration of ocean life. A 2007 study estimated the tropical ...
... " in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned.
More bad news for the world's oceans: Dead zones--areas of bottom waters too oxygen depleted to support most ocean life--are spreading, dotting nearly the entire east and south ...
Scientists on Wednesday said they had discovered deep-sea viruses to be an unexpectedly potent driver of the so-called carbon cycle that sustains oceanic life and helps dampen global warming.
More bad news for the world's oceans: Dead zones--areas of bottom waters too oxygen depleted to support most ocean life--are spreading, dotting nearly the entire east and south ...
More bad news for the world's oceans: Dead zones--areas of bottom waters too oxygen depleted to support most ocean life--are spreading, dotting nearly the entire east and south ...
... about marine life and making it accessible; Measuring effects of human activities on ocean life; Providing the foundation for scientifically-based policies;
According to Ian Poiner, chair of ...
... had disappeared," Bishop says.
He explains that "assumptions about the biological pump – the way ocean life circulates carbon – are mostly based on averaging measurements that have been made from ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 27 (UPI) -- Census of Marine Life historians meeting in Vancouver, Canada, say they have reconstructed images of past sea life that boggle the imagination.
... in which climate change and other human-caused factors such as fishing are the major threats for the oceans and their life," Andrew and Mike say.
"Given how essential the oceans are to how our entire ...
