Antarctic sea is loaded with unknown viruses. Out of thousands of marine viruses that were discovered in Antarctic waters in the past two years, 75 percent were new to science. […]
Chinese shellfish culture benefits wading birds. On the mudflats along the Chinese coasts where non-destructive forms of aquaculture are practiced, shorebirds like knots and bar-tailed godwits are doing relatively well. […]
Warmest June ever recorded in Wadden Sea; concerns over cockle mortality. In the past six summers, there were as many as five with high mortality among cockles in the Wadden […]
Microbes don’t descend with plastic particles into the deep-sea. Research has shown that microbes on floating plastic particles can be transported over long horizontal distances. New research carried out by […]
Importance of science-based data in an exploration of deep-sea mining. The wrap-up of the ‘Blue Nodules’ project shows the importance of science-based data in the much-debated exploration of deep-sea mining. […]
Scientists research Caribbean reefs. A group of scientists from NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), MARUM (Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen) and ZMT (Bremen) […]