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(McGill University) A McGill-led international research team has completed the first global study of changes that occurred in the nitrogen cycle, at the end of the last ice age. Their study confirm that oceans are good at balancing the nitrogen c ...

On Friday, June 14, filmmaker James Cameron delivered the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, the only human-occupied vehicle currently able to access the deepest parts of the ocean, to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Susan Avery, president and directo ...

The federal government insists it is striving to avoid the Great Barrier Reef being listed "in danger" ahead of a crunch UN meeting, after rejecting a Senate recommendation to block new port developments near the World Heritage ecosystem.

A long-awaited threat management plan for Maui's dolphins is to be announced next month - but one MP has questioned whether the Government is going far enough to protect the critically endangered species.

The closest most of us will get to Antarctica is nature documentaries like Frozen Planet - but the white continent's relevance to us and our future is far greater than we think. Many of the clues to climate change lie buried within Antarctica's i ...

In a new study of spiny lobsters scientists from the University of Miami and Old Dominion studied the larval dispersal of this species in the Caribbean. The goal of the study was to describe the sources, sinks, and routes connecting the Caribbean ...

A new study shows that combining improved oyster restoration methods with limits on fishing in the upper Chesapeake could bring the oyster population back to the Bay in a much shorter period of time. The study led by Michael Wilberg of the Univer ...

(University of California - Irvine) Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves, not icebergs calving into the sea, are responsible for most of the continent's ice loss, a study by UC Irvine and others has found.

Study solves the mystery of one of the most extreme adaptations in the animal kingdom: how marine mammals store enough oxygen to hold their breath for up to an hour.

Fishing is expected to be banned near the Atlantic islet of Rockall after a rare methane gas vent in the seabed and two new shellfish species were discovered by British scientists. The methane, which leaks through a so-called "cold seep" vent in ...

Nearly one in five Scottish salmon farms are breaching Environmental Quality Standards for residues of seal lice treatments, which are toxic to lobster, crabs and prawns.

The dedication and inspiring enthusiasm of those working in the Scottish shellfish industry will ensure a bright future for the sector, according to Stephen Cameron, managing director of the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group (SSMG), speaking jus ...

The Wellington City Council and a water company are tracking a "phantom dumper" who has been disposing potentially dangerous material into Karori's drainage system.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Georgia Tech research published online in Nature Communications indicates that diatoms stuff more iron into their silica shells than they actually need. As a result, there's not enough iron to go around, and the ...

A team of Spanish researchers, coordinated by the Spanish National Research Council, has started to sequence the genome of the global deep ocean. They are using more than 2,000 samples of microorganisms collected in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacif ...

After Cuban scientists studied the effects of climate change on this island's 5,630 kilometres of coastline, their discoveries were so alarming that officials didn't share the results with the public to avoid causing panic.

Biologists have unravelled why deep diving mammals such as sperm whales can hold their breath for over an hour when diving for food - they have electrically charged proteins in their blood.    

FishChoice has introduced a new dynamic to its website - a tool designed to make it easier to find suppliers of sustainable seafood.

Although the focus has been on cod stock recovery in the North Sea recently, other north-east Atlantic assessed fish stocks are recovering well too.

India's short-neck clam fishery in the Ashtamudi Estuary has entered into MSC assessment.