Tag: Marine Biology
Optimized multi-scale structure and chemical gradients in exoskeletons of mantis shrimp,...
The biological makeup of hermit crabs and mantis shrimps provide natural defenses against attacks and hazards. Researchers discover that these biomechanical structures involve chemical...
Metals from cigarette butts may pose potential threat to marine environment
Cigarette filters, which are made of cellulose acetate, may act like other plastics in providing a conduit to transport metals in marine environments, researchers...
Coal shipping threat to Great Barrier Reef
Dead coral smothered by coal. Credit: Kathryn Berry
Australian researchers have raised fresh concerns that a major shipping disaster could harm the Great Barrier Reef,...
Polluted dust can impact ocean life thousands of miles away
As iron is deposited from air pollution off the coast of East Asia, ocean currents carry the nutrient far and wide.
Credit: Georgia Institute of...
Saharan dust affects marine bacteria, potential pathogen Vibrio
This portrait of global aerosols was produced by a Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 simulation at a 10-kilometer resolution. Dust (red) is...
The Strait of Gibraltar proves no obstacle for eels
The results provide evidence that Mediterranean countries also have an important role to play in helping to save the European eel.
Credit: Kim Aarestrup, DTU...
