Recently added articles from Oceanus:
Noah's not-so-big flood: new evidence rebuts controversial theory of Black Sea deluge.(RESEARCH NEWS)
Oct 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A long time ago, whether your time frame is biblical or geological, the Black Sea was a large freshwater Black "Lake." A high and dry piece of land, the Bosphorus Sill, dammed the narrow connection between the lake and the Aegean Sea, blocking the entry of ...
The yellow mark of death in corals.(RESEARCH NEWS)(yellow band disease )
Oct 01, 2009; ... Coral reefs around the world are in serious trouble from pollution, overfishing, climate change, and more. The last thing they need is an infection. But that's exactly what yellow band disease (YBD) is--a bacterial infection that sickens coral colonies. Researchers at the Woods Hole ...
Are emperor penguins marching to extinction?(RESEARCH NEWS)(decline of emperor penguins population)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Emperor penguins, which delighted audiences in the Academy Award-winning documentary Marc/2 of the Penguins, could be sliding on the path toward extinction--the victims of climate change. The key threat to the penguins is diminishing sea ice, an essential platform on which the ...
Dust in the wind could be toxic in the sea.(RESEARCH NEWS)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009 ... For the first time, scientists report that toxic particles blowing off continents can have deadly impacts on some marine phytoplankton. High concentrations of airborne copper deposited in the northern Red Sea could be responsible for the toxic effects that researchers found on ...
Jason encounters the carnivorous sea squirt.(RESEARCH NEWS)(remotely operated underwater vehicle discovers sea squirt)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Tito Collasius, an engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has witnessed some of oceanography's more celebrated moments, including the discovery of Titanic and the eruption of undersea volcanoes. But on an expedition south of Tasmania that ended in January 2009, what caught his ...