Tag: Ocean warming
Call for end to EU fishing fleet tax exemptions. A new report revealed that the EU fishing fleet receives up to €1.5bn from tax breaks each year, despite emitting the same amount of CO2 as Malta in ...
Pamela Anderson joins the fight to protect Antarctica’s waters. The campaign focused on increasing the protection of Antarctica’s waters received a huge boost with the announcement that actor and activist Pamela Anderson will be joining ...
Why are some fish warm-blooded? Predatory sharks gain speed advantage, study finds. New research from marine biologists offers answers to a fundamental puzzle that had until now remained unsolved: why are some fish warm-blooded when ...
Fish adapt to ocean acidification by modifying gene expression. Human-driven global change is challenging the scientific community to understand how marine species might adapt to predicted environmental conditions in the near-future (e.g. hypoxia, ocean warming, ...
Study first to explore combined impacts of fishing and ocean warming on fish populations. The combined effect of rapid ocean warming and the practice of targeting big fish is affecting the viability of wild populations ...
Warming seas might also look less colourful to some fish: Here’s why that matters. When marine biologist Eleanor Caves of the University of Exeter thinks back to her first scuba dives, one of the first ...
Annual health check for the Atlantic on the Ocean Climate Survey. Scientists from the Marine Institute, Maynooth University and the National University of Ireland Galway were recently aboard the RV Celtic Explorer, for a 14-day ...
Predicting and managing harmful algal blooms impacts in the coastal seas of Europe now and in the future. Over the last three years, researchers from 12 institutes across seven European countries (Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, ...
Ocean warming threatening commercial shellfish. Ocean warming is paradoxically driving bottom-dwelling invertebrates – including sea scallops, blue mussels, surfclams and quahogs that are valuable to the shellfish industry – into warmer waters and threatening their ...
Campaign Connects us to the Ocean Through Art Activities – The Marine Institute’s Meet the Explorers Team primary school campaign connects us to the ocean through art activities The Meet the Explorers team campaign is promoting the ...
New study projects ocean warming impact on Antarctic krill. Ocean warming is likely to alter the distribution and lifecycle of ecologically and commercially important Antarctic krill over the rest of this century, according to new ...
Climate Change Increases Fisheries Conflict Risk – A team of fisheries scientists and marine policy experts, led by a University of Rhode Island researcher, examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment and found ...
Climate change impacting upon understanding of MPAs. Climate change and warming seas are transforming tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these delicate and vital ecosystems. Many of the world’s ...
Study shows Pacific cod eggs vulnerable to temperature changes. The 2013 to 2016 marine heatwave—known as “The Blob”—is the largest warm anomaly ever recorded in the North Pacific, according to an article on the NOAA ...
Explorers Super Hero Pop Art & Creative Writing Competition – The Marine Institute’s Explorers Education Programme yesterday (Monday 27th January) launched the Explorers Super Hero Pop Art & Creative Writing competition, where all primary school ...
Marine Protected Areas must be mobile. World leaders are currently updating the laws for international waters that apply to most of the world’s ocean environment. This provides a unique opportunity, marine scientists argued last week, ...
Little relief in the deep for heat-stressed corals. A team of NOAA scientists recently examined more than a thousand hot water events on coral reefs across the Pacific Ocean. Combining on-site monitoring with satellite records, ...
Climate change is reshaping marine ecology. Climate change is reshaping communities of fish and other sea life, according to a pioneering study on how ocean warming is affecting the mix of species. The study, published in ...
Rock Sole in Alaska may do well in warmer sea. Northern rock sole stocks may benefit from warming in the Bering Sea, a new NOAA Fisheries study suggests. Scientists found the first quantitative evidence that ...
Global assessment of ocean warming impacts. An international group of marine scientists has compiled the most comprehensive assessment of how ocean warming is affecting the mix of species in our oceans – and explained how ...
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