Ocean Research
Ocean Research Articles
98 article(s) in this category.
Marine Environmental Issues
Crossing Borders: How Ocean Currents, Typhoons, and Tsunami Debris Drift Across the Pacific
Marine Biology
What Are Cold Seeps? Chemosynthetic Communities Off Japan and How They Differ From Hydrothermal Vents
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Does Whaling Divide the World? Japan's IWC Withdrawal and the Fight Over Resource Management
Marine Biology
Why Can Sea Stars Regrow Their Arms? The Science of Stem Cells and Regeneration Conditions
Marine Biology
Why Barnacles Never Let Go: The Natural Glue That Cures Underwater, Its Cost to Shipping, and Its Medical Payoff
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Japan Filled In Its Tidal Flats: 33,000 Hectares Lost, and What Remains in Tokyo Bay and the Ariake Sea
Coral
Why Atolls Are Shaped Like Rings: Darwin's Subsidence Theory and the Drill Cores That Proved It
Coral
The Coral Microbiome: How Microbes Protect Corals and the Probiotics Fighting Bleaching
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Is the Thermohaline Circulation (AMOC) Weakening? The Ocean's Great Conveyor Belt and the Truth Behind Climate Catastrophe Scenarios
Marine Environmental Issues
What Happens When Antarctic Ice Melts: Sea Ice Loss, Ice Shelf Collapse, Ecosystems and Sea Level
Marine Environmental Issues
Microfibres Released by Laundry: Hundreds of Thousands of Plastic Fibres per Wash and What Households Can Do
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Can We Still Eat Eel, an Endangered Species? The State of the Resource and Choices for the Future
Marine Environmental Issues
What Is IUU Fishing? Up to 26 Million Tonnes Stolen a Year, and How Satellites and Law Fight Back
Marine Environmental Issues
Is the Ocean Carbon Sink Reaching Its Limit? The Three Pumps and the Signs of Weakening
Marine Environmental Issues
The Environmental Impact of Aquaculture: Uneaten Feed, Antibiotics, Fishmeal, and the Frontier of Sustainable Fish Farming
Marine Environmental Issues
How Dams Cause Coastal Erosion: Trapped Sediment, Vanishing Beaches, and the Push to Return Sand to the Sea
Marine Environmental Issues
What Is Deep-Sea Mining? The Race for Rare Metals and Its Irreversible Impact on Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Marine Environmental Issues
How Sand Mining Accelerates Coastal Erosion: 6 Billion Tonnes Dredged from the Ocean Every Year
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Do Jellyfish Blooms Happen? Nomura's Jellyfish Damage and the Links to Overfishing, Warming and Eutrophication
Marine Environmental Issues
Why Do Urchin Barrens Happen? The Loss of Kelp Forests and the Global Fight to Restore Them
Marine Environmental Issues
What Is a Golden Tide? Why Massive Sargassum Blooms Bury Coastlines and How the Seaweed Could Become a Resource
Marine Environmental Issues
What Is Shark Finning? The Practice Decimating Sharks and the Global Rules to Stop It
Marine Environmental Issues
Plastic Ingestion by Seabirds: Why 90% Eat Plastic and the Stomach Disease Plasticosis
Marine Environmental Issues