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Boston MA (SPX) May 12, 2023 - Throughout the ocean, billions upon billions of plant-like microbes make up an invisible floating forest. As they drift, the tiny organisms use sunlight to suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Without Prochlorococcus in the open ocean sequestering huge amounts of carbon, “we would be looking at a very different planet,” Rogier Braakman says. New research suggests the microbe’s ancient coastal ancestors colonized the ocean by rafting out on chitin particles.

Whale populations recovering from historical whaling are particularly vulnerable to incidental mortality and disturbance caused by growing ocean industrialization. Several distinct populations of rorqual whales (including humpback, blue, and fin whales) migrate and feed off the coast of Oregon, USA where spatial overlap with human activities are on the rise. Effective mitigation of conflicts requires better foundational understanding of spatial and temporal habitat use patterns to inform conserv...

Women climate scientists are breaking barriers in their fields while helping to save the planet with important climate change solutions and research.

Researchers found the coexistence of diverse microbes in the open ocean is made possible by staggering the timing of nutrient uptake.

UH research vessel Kilo Moana. (Photo credit: Tara Clemente/ UH) The coexistence of diverse microbes in the open ocean is made possible by staggering

Freshwater  Freshwater Freshwater habitats such as rivers and wetlands have high biodiversity, but this is being endangered by climate change, increasing the likelihood of floods and drought due to shifting rainfall patterns. Professor Chris Spray, the lead author of the Freshwater chapter at the University of Dundee, said: "Protecting these endangered habitats would necessitate a wholescape catchment solution that integrates ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic processes. Planting trees al...

Close (Photo : Theodor Vasile Unsplash) An analysis of nearly 50,000 aquatic species shifting positions between 1955 and 2015 showed that a projected effect of global warming - species moving away from the equator - can now be seen on a worldwide scale. Lessening Biodiversity (Photo : Pixabay) It said that more global warming, which is now imminent, would further reduce the diversity of biodiversity in tropical oceans. The results of the change, according to scientists, may be dramatic and dif...

 E-Mail Researchers from MBARI, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, after years of development and testing, have successfully demonstrated that a fleet of autonomous robots can track and study a moving microbial community in an open-ocean eddy. The results of this research effort were recently published in Science Robotics. Autonomous robotic fleets enable researchers to observe complex systems in ways that are otherwise impossible with pu...