News tagged with marine organisms
Acid test: Study reveals both losers and winners of CO2-induced ocean acidification
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (13) |
8
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world’s seawater becomes more acidic due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, some shelled marine creatures may actually become bigger and stronger, according to a new study.
Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage
Nov 06, 2009 |
3 / 5 (2) |
1
(AP) -- Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.
Ocean acidification: impact on key organisms of oceanic fauna
Sep 15, 2009 |
3.2 / 5 (5) |
0
In addition to global warming, carbon dioxide emissions cause another, less well-known but equally serious and worrying phenomenon: ocean acidification. Researchers in the Laboratoire d'Océanographie ...
Sea-floor Sediments Illuminate 53 Million Years of Climate History
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 01, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (5) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) drillship JOIDES Resolution is returning to port in Honolulu this week after a two-month voyage to chart detailed climate history in the equatorial ...
Scientists invent first technique for producing promising anti-leukemia agent
Apr 17, 2009 |
5 / 5 (5) |
1
Kapakahines, marine-derived natural products isolated from a South Pacific sponge in trace quantities, have shown anti-leukemia potential, but studies have been all but stalled by kapakahines' lack of availability.
Canada's shores saved animals from devastating climate change 252 million years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (26) |
7
The shorelines of ancient Alberta, British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic were an important refuge for some of the world's earliest animals, most of which were wiped out by a mysterious global extinction event some 252 ...
Acidifying oceans add urgency to CO2 cuts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 03, 2008 |
2.7 / 5 (23) |
6
It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean—often called the cradle ...
