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Popular Marine Species Could Face Extinction due to Increasing Ocean Temperatures

A new Cornell study published in the Oceanography magazine reveals that several commonly known marine species that are economically and culturally important are expected to face a highly risky future due to the increasing ocean temperatures along the East and West Coasts of the United States.

12 Sep 2016

New Study Reveals Impact of Climate Change on Subantarctic Seabed Animals

A new marine biodiversity study in one of the largest Marine Protected Areas in the world reveals the impact of environmental change on subantarctic seabed animals and answers big questions about the extent of South Georgia's ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum around 20,000 years ago.

2 Sep 2016

Effective Management of High Seas Fisheries Could Help Reduce Climate Change Impacts

Closing the high seas to fishing could increase fish catches in coastal waters by 10 per cent, helping people, especially the most vulnerable, cope with the expected losses of fish due to climate change, new UBC research finds.

31 Aug 2016

Research Article Proposes New Method to Quantify Degradation Processes Associated with Manure Management

The EU Commision requires Denmark to reduce drastically emissions of greenhouse gases from agriculture. But it is currently not possible to quantify emissions of methane from livestock manure - and to document effects of changes in management.

18 Aug 2016

International Study Reveals Earliest Land Plants are Responsible for Earth’s Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere

The evolution of the first land plants including mosses may explain a long-standing mystery of how Earth’s atmosphere became enriched with oxygen, according to an international study led by the University of Exeter.

16 Aug 2016

Oil Spills Affect Haddock Eggs, Cause Deformities

An international team of scientists have discovered that Atlantic haddock can suffer extreme and often deadly deformities during the development stages if their eggs are exposed to even small amounts of dispersed crude oil.

12 Aug 2016

Study Reveals Community Diversity Influences Plant’s Response to Carbon Dioxide Levels

A recent study published in Nature Communications has stated that plants that have reached a stage of evolution wherein they can withstand high levels of carbon dioxide do not grow effectively when they are moved to other plant community with different environmental conditions.

12 Aug 2016

Researchers Use E.coli to Engineer Improved Biofuels

Although E. coli bacteria is most of the times considered as a bad bug, laboratory-adapted E. coli that do not harm human beings, at the same time can multiply fast, have been commonly used for various research purposes.

11 Aug 2016

Scientists Use North Atlantic Oscillation as Predictive Tool to Manage Iconic Fishery

In recent decades, the plight of Atlantic cod off the coast of New England has been front-page news. Since the 1980s in particular, the once-seemingly inexhaustible stocks of Gadus morhua — one of the most important fisheries in North America — have declined dramatically.

28 Jul 2016

Oceanographers Culture and Sequence Microb's Genome that Contributes to Climate Change

Sea turtles and whales may be the charismatic critters of the sea, but the true kingpins of the ocean make up 98 percent of the ocean’s biomass — and yet individually are too small to see with the naked eye.

20 Jul 2016