Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea0

July 6th, 2008 by admin in Conservation and Marine biology and NEWS

BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
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Japanese boy finds shark tooth dating back 135 mil. years0

May 18th, 2007 by admin in Marine biology and NEWS

A 9-year-old boy in Wakayama Prefecture has discovered a fossilized lamniformes shark tooth believed to be the oldest ever found in Japan, dating back as far as 135 million years, the Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History said Wednesday.
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Goat Island, New Zealand: Marine life as it once was0

May 9th, 2007 by admin in Marine biology and NEWS

Snapper, blue maomao and parore swarm near the rocks as a hundred visitors stand and watch. In the shadows of the kelp behind them, much larger snapper lurk.
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Why are we being invated by jellyfish?0

August 8th, 2006 by admin in Conservation and Marine biology and NEWS

Scientists do not know the ultimate causes. The increase in the temperature of the water due to climatic change, the reduction in the number of predators due to over-fishing and the increase in nutrients due to contamination of the coasts may be some of the reasons.

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Emerging Ocean Volcano Has ‘Moat of Death’0

April 13th, 2006 by admin in General and Marine biology and NEWS

An undersea volcano in the Pacific is growing from its summit and could breach the ocean surface within a few decades, a new study reveals.

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Ocean acidification threatens cold-water coral ecosystems0

April 4th, 2006 by admin in Conservation and Marine biology and NEWS

Corals don’t only occur in warm, sun-drenched, tropical seas; some species are found at depths of three miles or more in cold, dark waters throughout the world’s oceans. Some cold-water coral reefs are home to more than 1,300 species of animals, a diversity rivaling some better known tropical coral reefs.

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Positive waves over marine park in Scotland0

April 1st, 2006 by admin in Conservation and Marine biology and NEWS

Scotland’s environment minister has welcomed the latest step towards creating a national marine park.

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