SYDNEY (AFP) Toxic chemical contamination was the likely cause of fatal fish mutations in northern Australia in which thousands of bass larvae spawned with two heads, an expert said Wednesday. Matt Landos, an aquatic animal specialist and member of the Australian College of Vete ...
ROTHERA BASE, Antarctica (Reuters) Antarctica is getting warmer rather than cooling as widely believed, according to a study that fits the icy continent into a trend of global warming . A review by U.S. scientists of satellite and weather records for Antarctica, which contains 90 p ...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2009) The East/Japan Sea in the western North Pacific is ventilated from the surface to the bottom of the ocean over decades. Such short overturning circulation indicates that carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from human emissions is able to pervade the East/Japan Sea on simi ...
The surprising cause of this expansion, which followed a collapse of the fishery after completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1965, is run-off of fertilizers and sewage discharges in the region, according to a researcher at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. Autumn O ...
This calcium carbonate is being produced by bony fish, a group that includes 90% of marine fish species but not sharks or rays. These fish continuously drink seawater to avoid dehydration. This exposes them to an excess of ingested calcium, which they precipitate into calcium carbonate crystals in ...