Dissolving Depths
Increased carbon emissions are acidifying oceans, weakening the shells of plankton and marine life, threatening ecosystems.
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Increased carbon emissions are acidifying oceans, weakening the shells of plankton and marine life, threatening ecosystems.
Overseas shipping containers may introduce harmful organisms to local environments, potentially causing huge risks to biosecurity protection.
Deep-sea mining tests reveal that such activities can have broader and more significant impacts on marine life than previously assumed.
Up to one a half million tonnes of carbon, soot, and other particles from combustion end up in deep-sea trenches every year.
Seagrass can reduce cliff erosion by up to 70% thanks to its root mats binding the sand.
Despite the global decline in manta rays because of over fishing over the past 50 years, reef manta rays in Indonesia have been recovering and thriving, mostly due to long-term conservation and management measures in the region.
Underwater nuclear bomb detectors have picked up an increasing flurry of song from pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean, indicating numbers of the elusive species have rebounded after it was hunted to near-extinction.
The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, growing up to 20m in length. Despite their great size, this species is endangered, with industrialised shipping now found to have lead to a large number of collisions and potential whale shark deaths across the world.
Almost all bodies of water have some algae, but in a red tide, the water changes colour because the population of algae living in the water becomes so dense. Off the west coast of Florida, these red tides are also likely to cause dead zones of life by starving the water of oxygen.
New research has shown that there has been a striking decrease in basking shark sightings in the California Current Ecosystem. In the mid-1900s, basking sharks were observed by the thousands each year off California’s coast. Now they are rarely seen at all in this region.