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Red Sea coral seen to feed on jellyfish

Red Sea coral seen to feed on jellyfish

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Corals depends on the products of photosynthetic algae for most of their food, but they also eat tiny plankton. Now, for the first time, there is evidence of a coral eating jellyfish.


Marine aquaculture could feed growing world population

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The oceans could become the source of more of humanity's food if steps are taken to expand and improve marine aquaculture, according to a study published in the December 2009 issue of BioScience.


New discoveries could improve climate projections

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 18 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.





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Asian carp raises fear and loathing on Great Lakes

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- After nearly four decades as a fishing guide on the Great Lakes, Pat Chrysler has seen enough damage from invasive species to fear what giant, ravenous Asian carp could do to the nation's largest bodies of freshwater.


Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes (AP)

Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi ...


Researchers take part in DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Researchers plan DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of a massive effort to inventory the DNA sequence of every living species ...


All decked out: Networks of chitin filaments are integral components of diatom silica shells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A whole microcosm of various bizarrely shaped life forms opens up when you look at diatoms, the primary component of ocean plankton, under a microscope. The regularly structured silica shells of these tiny ...


New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...


Asian carp may have breached barrier protecting Lake Michigan

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Two feared species of Asian carp have zoomed beyond the $9 million electric barriers built to keep them out of Lake Michigan. Now, the only thing left between the carp and the Great Lakes is a lock and dam in southern Chicago.


Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world (AP)

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(AP) -- A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating ...


Federal agencies not taking chances to keep carp from invading Great Lakes

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created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A group of federal agencies criticized in the past for failing to move quickly to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes announced Friday that they're taking every precaution to keep them out, even poisoning thousands ...



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