Environmental Issues These self-healing robot fish can gobble up the microplastics from our seas June 23, 2022
Biology Wooden shipwrecks create new micro-ecosystems for deep-sea microbes June 9, 2022 - Updated on January 19, 2023
Environmental Issues Sweet seagrass is saving oceans and reversing climate change — but we’re killing these gentle habitats May 5, 2022
News There are more fish in the “twilight” zone near the Antarctic than we thought April 6, 2022 - Updated on July 20, 2023
Archaeology Ship of legendary explorer Shackleton found in Antarctica 107 years after it sank March 9, 2022
Animals Whales eat much more than we assumed, and it has huge ecological implications November 3, 2021
Environment Could we use plastic to end the ocean’s plastic problem? A new paper says: “Yes!” November 2, 2021
Environment Climate change is choking the oxygen out of deep water, and it’s putting fish in a double bind September 17, 2021
Environment We can now track ocean microplastics from space, by looking at how winds and water interact June 28, 2021
Oceanography New “Genomic Microscope” for the Microbiome Discovers Carbon Dioxide-Eating Microbes Living in Superheated Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents April 27, 2021
Climate Study finds Greenland ice-sheet has already melted before – and it could again March 17, 2021
News Otters maintain patches of healthy kelp forests even when surrounded by “urchin barrens” March 8, 2021
Biology One of the largest ecosystems on Earth lives beneath the seafloor and eats radiation byproducts March 3, 2021
Animals Sawfish could soon become completely extinct if we don’t stop overfishing, says a study February 11, 2021
Biology Living fossil fish has 62 copies of a “parasite gene” humans share too — we have no idea how they got there February 10, 2021
Climate Ocean warming is a wrecking ball for coral reef systems. This researcher wants to understand it all December 16, 2020
Materials Nanocrystals allow dragonfish to camouflage their teeth December 3, 2020 - Updated on September 14, 2023
Biology At least 26% of the ocean needs to be relegated to conservation to prevent marine collapse February 25, 2020
Biology Oceans could be unviable for coral reefs by 2100 due to warmer, more acidic waters February 19, 2020
Animals Food availability acts as a cap for whales’s maximum size December 13, 2019 - Updated on September 5, 2023
