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King crab family bigger than ever
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...
Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool.
Plan would ban U.S. commercial fishing in Arctic Ocean
Feb 06, 2009 |
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Federal fishery regulators Thursday approved an unprecedented plan to ban U.S. commercial fishing in the Arctic Ocean.
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Scientists discover stinging truths about jellyfish blooms in the Bering Sea
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May 29, 2008 |
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A new study helps explain a cyclic increase and decrease of jellyfish populations, which transformed parts of the Bering Sea--one of the U.S.'s most productive fisheries--into veritable jellytoriums during ...
Pacific shellfish ready to invade Atlantic
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Aug 07, 2008 |
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As the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was interrupted by cooling conditions three million years ago, predict ...
Greenhouse ocean may downsize fish
Jan 11, 2008 |
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The last fish you ate probably came from the Bering Sea. But during this century, the sea’s rich food web—stretching from Alaska to Russia—could fray as algae adapt to greenhouse conditions.
Diet of kittiwakes may be key to decline
Nov 11, 2005 |
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A change in the diet of seabirds may be making them less intelligent and lowering their chances of survival, say University of Alaska researchers.
Skinny gray whales swim Pacific Coast
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Jul 06, 2007 |
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An unusually high number of skinny gray whales are being seen from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest, it was reported Friday.
Scientists keep close watch on gray whales
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Jun 28, 2006 |
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The number of baby gray whales migrating along the U.S. Pacific Coast is increasing and scientists say it may be a sign of Arctic warming.
Carcasses of dead walruses spotted on Alaska coast
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Up to 200 dead walruses have been spotted on the shore of Chukchi Sea on Alaska's northwest coast.
Warming Arctic strands walrus calves
Apr 16, 2006 |
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Lone walrus calves facing starvation after separation from their mothers appear to be more common in the Arctic, scientists say.
Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Arctic Ocean May Alter Views of Human Migration
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Oct 11, 2006 |
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Scientists have found new evidence that the Bering Strait near Alaska flooded into the Arctic Ocean about 11,000 years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than widely believed, closing off the land bridge thought to be the major ...
NASA data show Arctic saw fastest August sea ice retreat on record
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Sep 28, 2008 |
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Following a record-breaking season of arctic sea ice decline in 2007, NASA scientists have kept a close watch on the 2008 melt season. Although the melt season did not break the record for ice loss, NASA data ...
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