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Tiny calcified formations inside fishes’ ears can be used to trace a fish’s life history – and potentially, how climate change has affected its growth and development.
Protecting forests and wetlands, which absorb and store carbon, is one way to slow climate change. Scientists are proposing similar treatment for marine animals that help store carbon in the oceans.
Nurdles are a raw feedstock used to make most of the plastic products we use everyday, but they’re flooding the ocean as “mermaid tears”.
Citizen science game offered clues to why shore crabs get greener as they grow.
New research shows how marine mammals ignore the rules of biology to thrive in the world’s coldest waters
A few decades ago Boston Harbor was one of the nation’s dirtiest water bodies. Now, healthier fish in the harbor underscore that a multibillion-dollar cleanup has succeeded.
Some media have reported shark numbers at ‘plague proportions’ in Australian waters. But a new analysis suggests the opposite: species such as hammerheads and white sharks have plummeted in number.
A massive new discovery this summer of miles of corals in deep waters off South Carolina shows how much we have yet to learn about life on the ocean floor.
Mangrove forests grow in the tidal lagoons of tropical coastlines and they could actually benefit from climate change. Here’s what that means for us.
Researching the most resilient corals could help us find ways to better protect reefs in the future.
Coral reefs are in crisis around the world, and may disappear entirely. 3D printing is a new idea to help them – but it won’t be a cure all.
The return of white sharks to Cape Cod, Massachusetts was a tourism success story – until a shark killed a swimmer. Can the Cape’s residents and visitors learn to share the ocean with these apex predators?
These ‘snailfish’ look too fragile to exist several miles below the waves.
If we know what makes species tick, we can start truly understanding life on the UK’s coast.
Elusive and mysterious by nature, ordinary people are revealing the secrets of the UK’s octopuses.
With superpowers other animals can only dream of, these crustaceans challenge sharks for the title of most amazing predator in the sea.
Tech fixes to environmental problems are guaranteed to grab attention, but real change for the planet requires community organising.
Sea turtles contend with a contagious disease that causes debilitating tumors. Genetic analysis is helping researchers figure out precision medicine-based treatments for the turtles.
New research shows just how different male and female sharks can be.
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Professor, Macquarie University
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Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Faculty Research Associate in Marine Biology, Arizona State University
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Distinguished Professor of Environmental Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island
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Postdoctoral associate, University of Florida
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Professor in marine ecology, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Researcher in Marine Ecology, University of Exeter
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Professor, Marine Biology, University of Adelaide
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Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
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Founding Professor of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research centre, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer and Researcher in Behavioural ecology and Cephalopod Biology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Professor of Biology and Director, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii
