Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can automatically provide species-level identification of microscopic marine organisms. The next step is to incorporat... Read more
Fish leave bits of DNA behind that researchers can collect. Mark Stoeckle/Diane Rome Peebles images, CC BY-ND Mark Stoeckle, The Rockefeller University Ocean life is largely hidden from view... Read more
An American who fell in love with both the Great Barrier Reef and his wife via The University of Queensland has led a breakthrough discovery that could protect one of the Seven Natural Wonde... Read more
Incentives that are designed to enable smarter use of the ocean while also protecting marine ecosystems can and do work, and offer significant hope to help address the multiple environmental... Read more
An ocean-going drone will be helping to spot illegal fishing in the world’s largest, continuous marine reserve. The UK said it would establish the 834,000-sq-km (322,000-sq-mile) zone... Read more
Marine scientists are calling for a re-think of how marine protected areas (MPAs) are planned and coordinated, following a global assessment of the conservation of tropical corals and fishes... Read more
UBC research shows world’s monitored seabird populations have dropped 70 per cent since the 1950s, a stark indication that marine ecosystems are not doing well. Michelle Paleczny, a UB... Read more
Our oceans need an immediate and substantial reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. If that doesn’t happen, we could see far-reaching and largely irreversible impacts on marine... Read more
If current climate trends follow historical precedent, ocean ecosystems will be in state of flux for next 10,000 years, according to Scripps Oceanography researchers If history’s closest ana... Read more