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Influx of CO2 is disrupting fishes' sense of smell, sight and hearing, marine biologists at the University of Exeter finds.
Read moreFor two years, the researchers from University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science collected water samples along the 200-kilometer (124-mile) stretch of the Florida Reef Tract north of Biscayne National Park to the Lo
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Coral reefs are particularly vulnerable to the ocean acidification process, because reef architecture is built by the accretion of calcium carbonate, called calcification, which becomes increasingly difficult as acid concentrations increase and th
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In June X-Ray Mag correspondent Scott Bennett reported on a "Mysterious Diseas
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Author: Liliana Hisas, Executive Director, Universal Ecological Fund (U.S.)
Reviewed by Niklas Höhne, PhD, New Climate Institute (Germany)
The underwater world is elusive. In a statement of stunning over-simplification, its inaccessible reaches are a great source of both mystery and inspiration.
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The outlook for Australia's Great Barrier Reef is poor despite conservation efforts, with further deterioration expected in coming years, a report says.
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With melting ice increasing due to rising global temperatures, penguins are on the frontline of climate change. Scientists are finding penguins are beginning to feel major impacts from the drastic habitat changes.
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For decades, climate scientists have tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense about 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000-year cycles to 100,000-year cycles.
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The state already has taken several steps to increase the harvest of lionfish, such as allowing divers to spear or capture lionfish without a saltwater fishing license. Anglers need a fishing license but can take as many lionfish as they want.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation cites Key Largo lionfish derbies as examples of how allowing the spearing of lionfish in waters normally closed to spearfishing proved to be "excellent opportunities to safely facilitate lionfish removal."
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The gulf is an important spawning ground for bluefin and yellowfin tuna.
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Native sea urchins are being used to eradicate invasive seaweed destroying the reef in Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay, the United States’ only barrier reef system.
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Dead zones are areas in the ocean where oxygen levels are so low that most fish cannot survive over the long term.
Blue marlins and many other billfish are high-energy fish that need large amounts of dissolved oxygen. By comparing the movement of the blue marlins and the location of low-oxygen areas, scientists have shown that blue marlins venture deeper when dissolved oxygen levels are higher, and remain in shallower surface waters when low dissolved oxygen areas encroach on their habitat from below.
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According to the first-ever mangrove species assessment conducted by the IUCN Red List, 11 of the world’s 70 mangrove species are threatened with extinction, including two which were listed as Critically Endangered.
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