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Drones have been used to successfully collect samples from the exhaled breath from wild humpback, sperm and fin whales in northern Norway, hailing a new era of non-invasive health monitoring for these marine giants in Arctic regions.
Orcas and dolphins have been spotted for the first time working as a team to hunt salmon off the coast of British Columbia, according to a new study which suggests a cooperative relationship between the two predators.
Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It's not unlike what Harvard scientists and others are doing, except their target...
Study finds that exposure to addictive drugs like fentanyl and ketamine, prevalent in surface waters, affect the behaviour and survival rates of oyster larvae. Potential risks to humans.
Canary Islands as the missing link in a global sea urchin killer pandemic kills off urchins in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Sea of Oman and the western Indian Ocean.
United Nations affirmed the basic human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The idea is straightforward: people's fundamental human rights to health, food, security and even life rely on a healthy environment.
Way out in the Atlantic Ocean, divers love the Cape Verde islands for the caves, wrecks, dolphins, sharks, manta rays, loggerhead turtles and invertebrates.
When freshwater from rainfall and runoff enters the ocean, it can significantly reduce the salinity of the seawater and cause mild to severe hyposalinity. Hyposalinity causes osmotic stress, which leads to bleaching and even death for...
In the summer of 2022, 20 islands in the Maldives were flooded when a distant swell event in the Indian Ocean coincided with an extremely high tide level. This once rare event could happen every two to three years by around 2050,...
Divers and snorkellers in Townsville can explore a unique underwater gallery where art meets science - the Museum of Underwater Art (MOUA) - an ambitious project blending creativity, conservation and community action to protect the...
Particle plumes ejected by mining operations into deep Pacific waters threaten food source of more than half of the zooplankton types -- leading to bottom-up disruption of delicately balanced food system
The extraordinary little dragon, Eurypegasus draconis, creeps across the seafloor encased in a hard armour. Revealed, where to see them and why they shed their skin every week.
The island nation of Mauritius is home to nearly 250 kinds of corals, but saw 80% of its corals bleached in the latest mass bleaching caused in part by climate change. Scientists question whether coral restoration works in the face of...
Leatherbacks make one of the longest migrations on Earth - swimming thousands of miles from Indonesia to the U.S. West Coast to feed on jellyfish. Yet, along their journey, they face mounting threats: poaching, coastal development, sand...
Even if all plastic inputs into the ocean were stopped immediately, fragments of buoyant plastic debris would continue to pollute the ocean surface and release microplastics for more than a century.
This prestigious competition is open not just to professional photographers and those with expensive camera rigs but also features categories for compact cameras and smart phones. With $60000 of prizes, what are you waiting for?
Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living marine species formally named and described.
Lund University archaeologists have revealed details of late medieval artillery from the wreck of the royal Danish-Norwegian flagship, Gribshunden. The shipwreck is the only known example of its kind from the medieval period - as both...
Passionate divers and content creators wanted to represent SSI on social media, share their underwater adventures and inspire a new generation of ocean explorers.
Black corals are yellow, red, green - anything but black. They grow faster than almost any other coral and can live down to 8600 m. What the science says about black corals
More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea's seabed than on the sediment surrounding it. The findings, reported in a paper in Communications Earth and Environment, show that some marine...
They have withstood four consecutive and intensifying marine heatwaves, including the world's most extreme 2024 event, without suffering mass bleaching - a resilience unmatched elsewhere.
More than a decade of acoustic recordings of grouper grunts are providing new insight into how sound can be used to monitor and manage vulnerable fish populations.
Lateral flow tests saved the day for public health during the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling rapid population-level health monitoring so that public health officials could make informed decisions to keep their contingents alive and healthy....
A new study is helping scientists map the abundance of phytoplankton and zooplankton with greater accuracy than ever before, a development which - in turn - is improving their ability to predict the presence of North Atlantic right...
Top liveaboards for single travellers. Travelling on your own is a great way to meet other divers and there are a number of liveaboards with single cabins just perfect for your next dive trip.
Every arm is capable of performing all action types; however, there was a clear pattern of arm partitioning: front arms mainly use movements to aid in exploration, while back arms use movements that primarily support movement....
The Mediterranean Sea is a semi-enclosed sea and connected to the global ocean only through the Strait of Gibraltar. As a result, the Mediterranean Sea is warming faster and acidifying more strongly than the open ocean. What happens in...
When you buy shark meat in the U.S., you may be getting a different species - including an endangered one that contains high levels of mercury, all due to widespread mislabelling.