New study reports strong indications of freshened groundwater offshore the Maltese Islands ');
document.write('Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(University of Malta) An international team of scientists has reported strong indications of freshened groundwater offshore the coastline between Valletta and Marsascala, in the south-east of Malta.');
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Targeted removals and enhanced monitoring can help manage lionfish in the Mediterranean ');
document.write('Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(University of Plymouth) New research by the University of Plymouth represents one of the first studies to examine the effectiveness of targeted lionfish removals from both an ecological and a socio-economic perspective.');
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Archaeology: Roman road discovered in the Venice lagoon ');
document.write('Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Scientific Reports) The discovery of a Roman road submerged in the Venice Lagoon is reported in Scientific Reports this week.');
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A new model of coral reef health ');
document.write('Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation) Scientists have developed a new way to model and map the health of coral reef ecosystems using data collected on the Global Reef Expedition. This innovative method, presented today at the International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), can determine which natural and anthropogenic factors are most likely to lead to persistently vibrant coral and fish communities. Their findings can help scientists identify the reefs most likely to survive in a changing world.');
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Deep-sea research bolstered with $2 million grant ');
document.write('Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences) Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been awarded $2 million by NSF to accelerate scientific understanding of the impacts of emerging industries in the deep sea - one of the most mysterious, and potentially lucrative, areas of the ocean.');
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Tiny organisms shed big light on ocean nutrients ');
document.write('Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences) Sweeping changes in marine nutrients may seem to be a likely consequence of increasing global temperatures; however, new research suggests that processes below the ocean surface could play a larger role than previously thought.');
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Crime scene tape set to revolutionize microplastics research ');
document.write('Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Staffordshire University) Forensic scientists have developed a new method to help monitor plastic pollution across the world. An adhesive tape patented by Staffordshire University researchers to recover trace evidence from crimes scenes is being adopted to analyse microplastics more efficiently.');
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Muddied waters: Sinking organics alter seafloor records ');
document.write('Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Washington University in St. Louis) The remains of microscopic plankton blooms in near-shore ocean environments slowly sink to the seafloor, setting off processes that forever alter an important record of Earth\'s history, according to research from geoscientists, including David Fike at Washington University in St. Louis.');
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Fish friends help in a crisis ');
document.write('Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Nova Southeastern University) To better understand how familiarity impacts social fishes, a group of research scientists studied this idea using schooling coral reef fish.');
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Review evaluates the evidence for an intensifying Indian Ocean water cycle ');
document.write('Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) The Indian Ocean has been warming much more than other ocean basins over the last 50-60 years. While temperature changes basin-wide can be unequivocally attributed to human-induced climate change, it is difficult to assess whether contemporary heat and freshwater changes in the Indian Ocean since 1980 represent an anthropogenically-forced transformation of the hydrological cycle. What complicates the assessment is factoring in natural variations, regional-scale trends, a short observational record, climate model uncertainties, and the ocean basin\'s complex circulation.');
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Save Our Seas Foundation announces a record 61 grants for 2021 ');
document.write('Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Save Our Seas Foundation) The Save our Seas Foundation has announced 61 grants for 2021, the largest cohort of awards in its 18-year history. Young scientists, local leaders and educators lead the charge on issues of illegal trade, marine protected area (MPA) expansion, climate change and overfishing. Their solutions are tech-savvy (from DNA testing kits to smartphone apps) to visionary (designing MPAs for sharks) and also herald a new era of compassion as they gather local histories and look to a brighter future.');
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Biodiversity, climate change and the fate of coral reefs ');
document.write('Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Ohio State University) An international group of researchers representing thousands of coral scientists across the globe is issuing recommendations for new commitments and actions by the world\'s policymakers to protect and restore coral reefs.');
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Ocean microbes team up brilliantly to gather food when it\'s scarce ');
document.write('Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Marine Biological Laboratory) What\'s a hungry marine microbe to do when the pickings are slim? It must capture nutrients - nitrogen, phosphorus, or iron - to survive, yet in vast expanses of the ocean, nutrients are extremely scarce. One ingenious solution to this challenge is reported this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.');
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Study examines the role of deep-sea microbial predators at hydrothermal vents ');
document.write('Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) The hydrothermal vent fluids from the Gorda Ridge spreading center in the northeast Pacific Ocean create a biological hub of activity in the deep sea. There, in the dark ocean, a unique food web thrives not on photosynthesis but rather on chemical energy from the venting fluids. Among the creatures having a field day feasting at the Gorda Ridge vents is a diverse assortment of microbial eukaryotes, or protists, that graze on chemosynthetic bacteria and archaea.');
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Complexity yields simplicity: The shifting dynamics of temperate marine ecosystems ');
document.write('Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(University of Tsukuba) Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that the combined effects of ocean warming and acidification in temperate marine ecosystems are resulting in a loss of kelp habitat and a shift to a simple turf-dominated ecosystem. Such changes will lead to a loss of the ecosystem services provided by productive macroalgal forests or tropicalized coral-dominated reefs. These results highlight the need for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.');
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Scientists get to the bottom of deep Pacific ventilation ');
document.write('Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(University of New South Wales) An international team of scientists from Australia, USA, and France have analysed how the deep Pacific exchanges water with the surface ocean.');
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3D printed replicas reveal swimming capabilities of ancient cephalopods ');
document.write('Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(University of Utah) Researchers took 3-D printed reconstructions of fossil cephalopods to actual water tanks (including a University of Utah swimming pool) to see how their shell structure may have been tied to their movement and lifestyle.');
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Arrival of land plants changed Earth\'s climate control system ');
document.write('Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(University College London) In a new study, published in the journal Nature, researchers looked at samples from rocks spanning the last three billion years and found evidence of a dramatic change in how the carbon cycle functioned about 400 million years ago, when plants started to colonise land.');
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Solar radio signals could be used to monitor melting ice sheets ');
document.write('Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Stanford University) A new method for seeing through ice sheets using radio signals from the sun could enable cheap, low-power and widespread monitoring of ice sheet evolution and contribution to sea-level rise.');
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Politecnico di Torino and Ithaca together for the production of maps for the European Agency Frontex ');
document.write('Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Politecnico di Torino) control, border management and whose responsibilities, extended in 2016 to the fight against cross-border crime and search and rescue services in the context of surveillance of the maritime borders, has entrusted an important contract for the maps production to a consortium composed of the Ithaca Association, DIST - Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning of Politecnico di Torino and Ithaca Srl');
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UTA researcher publishes study showing economic impacts of combating sea-level rise ');
document.write('Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(University of Texas at Arlington) Sea-level rise threatens to produce more frequent and severe flooding in coastal regions and is expected to cause trillions of dollars in damages globally if no action is taken to mitigate the issue. However, communities trying to fight sea-level rise could inadvertently make flooding worse for their neighbors, according to a new study from researchers at UT Arlington and the Stanford Natural Capital Project published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.');
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Mathematical model predicts the movement of microplastics in the ocean ');
document.write('Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Newcastle University) Research led by Newcastle University\'s Dr Hannah Kreczak is the first to identify the processes that underpin the trajectories of microplastics below the ocean surface. Publishing their findings in the journal Limnology and Oceanography the authors analysed how biofouling - the accumulation of algae on the surface of microplastics, impacts the vertical movement of buoyant particles.');
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Scientists explore seamounts in Phoenix Islands Archipelago, gain insights into deep water diversity ');
document.write('Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Schmidt Ocean Institute) Building off a groundbreaking 2017 expedition, a follow-up expedition in the Phoenix Islands Archipelago enabled the largest collection of microbial cultures from the central Pacific Ocean and the most comprehensive study of deep sea coral and sponge ecosystems in this part of the world.');
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Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness ');
document.write('Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(Stanford University) Stanford-led expeditions to a remote area of Yukon, Canada, have uncovered a 120-million-year-long geological record of a time when land plants and complex animals first evolved and ocean oxygen levels began to approach those in the modern world.');
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Remotely-piloted sailboats monitor \'cold pools\' in tropical environments ');
document.write('Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT ');
document.write('(University of Washington) Researchers used remotely-piloted sailboats to gather data on cold air pools, or pockets of cooler air that form when rain evaporates below tropical storm clouds. These hard-to-study phenomena are thought to have broader effects on tropical weather.');
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