Ocean Sentry
Scientists freely acknowledge they don’t know everything about how global warming affects hurricanes like the one pummelling southeast Texas.
August, 2017
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29 August
Algae fortifies coral reefs in past and present
The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large part to a type of red algae that grows on corals and strengthens them.
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29 August
Country’s largest estuary facing increasing acidification risk
Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States and one of the largest in the world, is facing new risks from a layer of highly acidified water some 10 to 15 meters below the surface, a new study has found.
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28 August
New angling contest raises species fears
A storm has erupted over a major new angling competition after fish scientists pointed out that more than half the 11 species to be targeted are endangered.
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28 August
Human-made fossil methane emission levels larger than previously believed
Humans are probably contributing more methane to the atmosphere through fossil fuel use and extraction than scientists previously believed.
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27 August
Endangered Hawaiian gallinules killed by feral cats on Kaua‘i
The pair of breeding adults was attacked and killed while sitting on their nest in a national wildlife refuge in late April. With no adults left to tend the nest, the birds’ remaining three eggs and two hatchlings did not survive.
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25 August
Canary in the Arctic coal mine: warming harms migratory birds
As Arctic snows melt earlier in the year, insects are emerging ahead of schedule. That’s bad news for some migratory songbirds, such as the red knot, that depend on the bugs as fuel before their long flights south.
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24 August
No industry within 10km of Sundarbans: HC
The High Court today directed the government not to approve any industry within 10 kilometres in the Sundarbans, largest mangrove forest in the world.
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24 August
Permafrost thawing faster, feeding climate change: study
A new study suggests that frozen ground in Arctic regions of the world will thaw faster than most research predicts and could worsen climate change very significantly.
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23 August
Sub-tropical corals vulnerable, new study shows
The vulnerability and conservation value of sub-tropical reefs south of the Great Barrier Reef – regarded as climate change refuges – has been highlighted in a new study.
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23 August
Shocking gaps in basic knowledge of deep sea life
Human interference in the deep sea could already be outpacing our basic understanding of how it functions.
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22 August
Marine microplastics detected in bottom-dweller bellies for the first time
Around half of marine creatures living at depths of more than 2,000 metres in the North Atlantic could be eating microplastic material, marine scientists have discovered.