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Researcher gives first-ever estimate of worldwide fish biomass and impact on climate change

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Are there really plenty of fish in the sea? University of British Columbia fisheries researcher Villy Christensen gives the first-ever estimate of total fish biomass in our oceans: Two billion tonnes.





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Salamanders, headwater streams critical in food chain

Biology /

created Feb 22, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

University of Missouri scientist Ray Semlitsch studies creatures most people don’t ever see. These creatures are active only at night and thrive in the shallow, cool, wet surroundings of headwater streams, an oft-overlooked ...


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Fishing throws targeted species off balance, study shows

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created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Fishing activities can provoke volatile fluctuations in the populations they target, but it’s not often clear why. A new study published in the journal Nature by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceano ...


Fish Sense Other Fish Via Ripples

Fish Sense Other Fish Via Ripples

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Although humans experience their world through vision, touch and the other senses, many creatures gather information about their surroundings through unique sensory mechanisms that humans don’t have.


Eating fish has no effect on health of large intestine

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

It appears that eating more fish has no effect on the health of the large intestine. Neither was there any difference between eating salmon and cod. In other words, there are no additional indications that fish consumption ...


Experts think toxic algae harming endangered fish

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists say they think toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West are harming an endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced ...


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Study says 'middle class' coral reef fish feel the economic squeeze

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The economy isn't just squeezing the middle class on land, it's also affecting fish.


Switchgrass produces biomass efficiently

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A USDOE and USDA study concluded that 50 million U.S. acres of cropland, idle cropland, and cropland pasture could be converted from current uses to the production of perennial grasses, such as switchgrass, from which biomass ...


Researchers alarmed by levels of mercury and arsenic in Chinese freshwater ecosystem

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A team of researchers, led by biologists at Dartmouth, has found potentially dangerous levels of mercury and arsenic in Lake Baiyangdian, the largest lake in the North China Plain and a source of both food and drinking water ...


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Red, White Wine, Fish And Science

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The long-standing rule of matching wine and food -- red wine with red meat and white wine with fish -- actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, ...


When accounting for the global nitrogen budget, don't forget fish

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 24, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Like bank accounts, the nutrient cycles that influence the natural world are regulated by inputs and outputs. If a routine withdrawal is overlooked, balance sheets become inaccurate. Over time, overlooked deductions can undermine ...



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