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Phytoplankton in peril, global ocean productivity plummeting, CSIR-led study warns
New research led by the CSIR has uncovered a troubling global trend – a significant decline in ocean productivity over the ...
A Deep-Sea Fish of Nightmares Strays Into Shallow Waters
A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.
Symbiotic bacteria ride along with single-celled protists in ocean's upper layer
Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...
Aquaculture in the Amazon: Lessons for food security and sustainability
Expanding aquaculture in the Amazon could provide nutritional and economic benefits at a fraction of the environmental cost ...
Sea turtles ‘dance’ in magnetic fields associated with food, new study finds
Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.
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Dancing turtles help us understand how they navigate around the world
Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities. By learning to associate a magnetic field with a food, ...
Scientific American9h
Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...