Soiled Stowaways
Overseas shipping containers may introduce harmful organisms to local environments, potentially causing huge risks to biosecurity protection.
Sea
Mnemic Medusae
Despite lacking a conventional brain, jellyfish demonstrate learning abilities, challenging our understanding of learning in animals.
Echoes from the Deep
Deep-sea mining tests reveal that such activities can have broader and more significant impacts on marine life than previously assumed.
Spawning Shadows
Artificial light at night from coastal developments is potentially disrupting the moonlight cycles corals rely on for spawning, thereby threatening the resilience of these already endangered ecosystems.
Binding the Coast
Seagrass can reduce cliff erosion by up to 70% thanks to its root mats binding the sand.
Caring Corals
Corals resistant to disease can help protect more vulnerable corals. Raising corals with diverse genotypes builds resilience amid disease and climate changes in reefs.
Rays of Hope
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.
Changing Sounds of the Blues
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.
Death in the Shipping Lanes
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.
Dead Red Tides
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.