Ocean Sentry
For more than half a century, biologists studying Antarctica focused their research on understanding how organisms cope with the continent’s severe drought and the coldest conditions on the planet.
May, 2019
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10 May
A warmer Arctic will have a large and complex impact to algal production
Since the Arctic marine food web is short, poorly diverse and seasonally driven by limited pulses of energy, the expected changes in primary production can have relevant impacts to the rest of the food web up to humans.
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9 May
Low oxygen levels could temporarily blind marine invertebrates
These results, published recently in the Journal of Experimental Biology, are the first demonstration that vision in marine invertebrates is highly sensitive to the amount of available oxygen in the water.
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8 May
Microplastics flowing into our oceans threaten deep sea marine life
Researchers from The University of Manchester and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are racing to understand how microplastics are transported to the deep-sea floor in an effort to combat the growing ecological problem.
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8 May
Phytoplankton decline coincides with warming temperatures over the last 150 years
In a paper appearing today in Nature, the researchers report that phytoplankton’s productivity in this important region has gone down around 10 percent since the mid-19th century and the start of the Industrial era.
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8 May
Global centers of unsustainable harvesting of species identified
Unsustainable harvesting, including hunting, trapping, fishing and logging, is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. Yet, no previous assessment has investigated which areas are most vulnerable to this threat globally.
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7 May
Garbage found inside a dead sea turtle on Kamala beach
Fishing equipment and other rubbish have been found inside a large dead sea turtle on Kamala beach yesterday.
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7 May
Scientists are voicing concern after 9 dead gray whales washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay in 2 months
A total of 31 dead gray whales have been spotted up and down the West Coast since January, and a number of them were malnourished.
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7 May
Dugongs in polluted waters on west coast face murky future
Industrial pollution in the Gulf of Kutch (GoK) is degrading the last remaining habitats of dugongs, or sea cows, says a study by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS).
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7 May
The last of the Arctic’s old sea ice is on the verge of vanishing
The latest sign comes courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which released its monthly sea ice update on Thursday. It shows that just 1.2 percent of ice in the Arctic Ocean is older than four years.
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6 May
Shrimp farms threaten Myanmar’s remaining mangroves
Myanmar’s growing shrimp aquaculture industry has sparked controversy in recent years after allegedly claiming illegal land permits to further deplete the country’s remaining mangrove forests.
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6 May
UN warns of ‘biological annihilation’ as the 6th extinction event unfolds on our planet
An ever-growing body of evidence suggests the planet may be in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.