The European Environment Agency published a the first State of Europe’s Seas report this week. The report’s findings were overall troublesome. Only 4% of marine species are currently considered to have a ‘good’ status. One of Europe’s largest obstacles is that there is a real lack of data on the marine environment. Within the next 5 years, the EU will work to develop a number of aggressive conservation and improvement plans. Read more…
This week a team from Northeastern’s Marine Science Center, led by professor William Detrich, received four year funding from the NSF to continue to research the warming Southern Ocean. The overall goal of the project if the fish living in the area are equipped to adapt to the increasing water temperature. Detrich describes how the team will team will observe temperature response on the red-blooded rockcod and white-blooded icefish. Antarctic fish are an essential part of the region’s food web. Read more…
After years of financially backing, the West Austrialian government has stopped funding the tagging and tracking of sharks. This practice was used to learn more about the behavior of the great white shark population. Research will continue on the shark species in the area but on a much smaller scale Read more…
5. Hospital Finds Plastic Inside Injured Sea Turtle
Believe it or not, that picture on the right is not a creature in a crazy science fiction film. That tiny sea creature is called the Hallucigenia and lived around 500 million years ago. A study published in Nature describes the fossils of this organism that were discovered over the last 100 years. To read some of the details and behaviors that scientist uncovered from the fossils, read the scientific paper here…
7. The Amazing World of Antarctic Yeti Crabs
The Kiwa tyleri is a small, hairy, white crab that lives atop of the hydrothermal vents in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. These ‘yeti crabs’ are hidden 8,500 feet underneath the ocean surface at temperatures of 721 degrees Fahrenheit. To read more about this species and see a number of pictures taken by remotely operated submersible vehicles (ROVs) click here…
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