Marine Life

New tool to visualize marine life    Red tides not random, can be predicted

Global synopsis of large marine ecosystems and the open ocean science and transboundary management

Marine Biodiversity and Biogeography - Regional Comparisons of Global Issues

From Darwin to the Census of Marine Life: marine biology as big science

Conserving marine diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction


Some fish quickly adapt to lethal levels of pollution

Manganese nodules as breeding ground for deep-sea octopuses

New study sets oxygen-breathing limit for ocean's hardiest organisms 

Researchers study vast carbon residue of ocean life    One scientist's quest to scan every species of fish

Marine Life Census    Census Maps    UN (Analysis Report)    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems - The ChEss Collection

Protecting international marine biodiversity : international treaties and national systems of marine protected areas


Fish populations revealed through seawater analysis   Specialized life forms abound at Artic methane seeps

Integrated marine research for sustainable ocean development   

Billions of juvenile fish under the Arctic sea ice

In the ocean, clever camouflage beats super sight

The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries

Sea life 'facing major shock'   Sealife faces risk of large-scale extinctions

Multiple Ocean Stresses Threaten 'Globally Significant' Marine Extinction


Mass extinction led to many new species of bony fish    Life in earth's priordial sea was starved for sulphate


Scientists reveal why life got big in the Earth's early oceans

Gulls feasting on whales? In Argentina, yes    Whales are ecosystem engineers

Listening for whales and fish in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean   In search of whales

Keeping whales safe in sound    Western Gray Whale Report    Southern Right Whales

Fossils reveal origins of filter feeding in baleen whales

Dolphins can remember each other after 20 years of separation

Whales have conscious control of their heart rate

New genetic research shark, human proteins stunningly similar

Sizing up giants uder the sea    True facts about the octopus     Octopus feeding and mating

Make like a squid and transform    Aciidifying oceans could spell trouble for squid

New study examines how ocean energy impacts life in the deep sea

Global study reveals new hotspots of fish biodiversity

Grand challenges in marine ecosytem ecology    The ocean's senstive skin

How fish won the oxygen war    Life-limiting nutrients    Ocean fish acquire more mercury at depth

Epic ocean voyages of coral larvae revealed    Rapid, long-distance dispersal by pumice rafting

Short circuit in the food web    Greenhouse gas likely altering ocean food chain

Stirred not mixed: how seawater turbulence affects marine food webs

The overlooked commotion of particle motion in the ocean

How small marine particles affect our climate

Seashells for sale: a new souurce of sustaiable biomaterials

Marine carbon sinking rates confirm importance of polar oceans

Migrating animals add new depth to how the ocean "breathes"    Feast or famine on the abyssal plain

A mile deep, ocean fish facing health impacts from human pollution



Tropical marine ecosystems most at threat from human impact

New research offers insight into marine life's ability to adapt to climate change    

Warm water is mixing up life in the Arctic    Warmer, lower-oxygen oceans will shift marine habitats

Ocean heat content reveals secrets of fish migration behaviors    

Ocean oases: how islands support more sea-life    How seashells get their strength

Submarine canyons: hotspots of deep-sea benthic abundance and biodiversity

Motion, Commotion, and Biophysical Connections at Deep Ocean Seamounts

Barnacles explain life at the extremes    NASA discovers unprecedented bloom of ocean plant life

Seagrasses can store as much carbon as forests   

Chalking up a marine blooming algae: genome fills a gap in the tree of life 

Marine algae can sense the rainbow    Algae to cope well in climate change

Why cryptophyte algae are really good at harvesting light

Ocean slime spreading quickly across the Earth    Underwater drones map ice algae in Antarctica        

Genetic maps of ocean algae show bacteria-like flexibility    Microorganisms duke it out within algal blooms

Newly discovered marine viruses offer glimpse into untapped biodiversity

Clear link found between warming climate and rise in ocean-borne bacteria illnesses

Iron-oxidising bacteria found on Mid-Atlantic Ridge    Ocean bacteria get 'pumped up'

Methane seeps of the deep sea: a bacteria feast for lithodid crabs     

Scientists find evidence of microscopic life scavenging for oxygen deep in oceanic crust   

Bacteria in the world's oceans produce millions of tonnes of hydrocarbons each year

Tiny ocean organism has big role in climate regulation    Big questions about tiny bacteria    

Newly discovered bacterial partnership changes ocean chemistry

New 13-year study tracks impact of changing climate on key marine food source

Ocean data shows 'climate dance' of plankton    Reading ancient climate from plankton shells

Rising water temperatures and acidification affect important plankton organism

First atlas of oceanic plankton    Ocean life triggers ice formation in clouds

Ocean acidification may cause drammatic changes to phytoplankton

Ocean acidification weighs heavily upon marine algae

Marine bacteria boost growth of tiny ocean algae

Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed

Proteomics method measures carbon uptake of marine microbes

Proteomics reveals ocean's inner workings

Variations in phytoplankton community structure

Phytoplankton like it hot: warming boosts biodiversity and photosynthesis in phytoplankton

Plankton network linked to ocean's biological carbon pump revealed

Tiny phytoplankton have big influence on climate change    Giant plankton gains long-due attention

A glimpse into the future composition of marine phytoplankton communities

Interactive effect of temperature and CO2 increase in Arctic phytoplankton

Ocean phytoplankton declines in Northern Hemisphere

Rapid plankton growth in ocean seen as sign of carbon dioxide loading


Octillions of microbes in the seas: ocean microbes show incredible genetic diversity

Deep biosphere harbors active, growing communities of microorganisms

Genetic survey sheds light on Ocean's lean, mean microbial machines

Closer look at microorganisms provides insight on carbon cycling

Oceanic microbes behave in synchrony across ocean basins

Professor discovers how microbes survive at bare minimum

Vast differences in polar ocean microbial  communities

Flowing electrons help ocean microbes gulp methane

Limits of microbial life in undersea volcanoes defined

Small organisms could dramatically impact world's climate

Genetic switch lets marine diatoms do less work at higher CO2

Deep ocean carbon sinks    Study shows iron from melting ice sheets may help buffer global warming

The ocean's living carbon pumps    

Streamlining a common survival strategy in marine microbes

Tiny sea creaturs are heading for extinction, and could take local fisheries with them

Grazing snails rule the waves     Tiny grazers play key role in marine ecosystem health


Salmon fishing clashes with endangered gray whales

A global assessment of salmon acquaculture impacts on wild salmonids

Study confirms link between salmon migration and magnetic field

Massive Outbreak of Jellyfish Couls Spell Trouble for Fisheries   Jellyfish Gone Wild!

Warm blood makes opah an agile predator    The covert world of fish bioflouresence

Small fish can play a big role in the coastal carbon cycle    Baby fish 'steer by the sun'      

Sea star wasting disease likely caused by virus    Cetacean stranding

Scientists peek into hidden sea worm's light    Miigrating animals' pee affects ocean chemistry

Hidden among sea anenomes: the first comprehensive phylogenic reconstruction of the Order Actiniaria reveals a novel group of hexacorals

Global trends show seabird populations dropped 70% since 1950s 

Climate 'causing huge changes in ocean life'

Marine reserves enhance resilience to climate change

Global cooling as a significant as global warming    Profiting from climate change

Global investigation reveals true scale of ocean warming    Acid trap

Jurassic records warn of risk to marine life from global warming

Troubled waters: the future of global fisheries   Untold fish catches revealed

A war without end - with Earth's carbon cycle held in the balance

Blind cavefish offer evidence for alternative mechanism of evoluionary change


Uncovering the secret world of the plastisphere     Living cables explain enigmatic electric currents  

Brain-wide mapping of neural activity controlling zebrafish exploratory locomotion       


Could the humble sea urchin hold the key to carbon capture?        


Project GLoBAL: India -West Indian Ocean

Urgent need to study the impacts of biomass burning and haze on marine ecosystems in SE Asia


Sustainable management of krill resources in the Southern Ocean

Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean 

Australia: Take a bite at the Bight - and its deep ocean ecosystem

Australia's vast kelp forests devastated by marine heatwave

Twenty new freshwater fish species uncovered in the Kimberley

Sydney: fish only a mother could love

US West Coast study emphasizes challenges faced by marine organisms exposed to global change

Shallow-water corals in Florida are not related to their deep-water counterpart

Study outlines threat of ocean acidification to coastal communities in the US

Sea change: oysters dying as US Pacific NW coast is hit hard

Researchers wire the kelp forests off California coasts

Northeast Shelf record high SST

Conservation Status of the Marine Fishes of the Mediterranean Sea

Great white sharks in Mediterranean made 'wrong turn'

Comparing reconstructed past variations and future projections of the Baltic Sea ecosystem - first results from multi-model ensemble simulations

Salt stratification determines the fate of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea