Diagnosis and Management of Injuries From Dangerous Marine Life CME
This article discusses various types of venomous marine life and the treatments for the injuries that they inflict.

Southern Ocean Iron May Have Come From The Depths, Not The Atmosphere, Researchers Conclude
Scientists believe that increases in plant life in the Southern Ocean are associated with increases in iron, which acts as a fertilizer, in the ocean water.

New Method Of Dating Oceanic Crust Is Most Accurate So Far
A newly developed method that detects tiny bits of zircon in rock reliably predicts the age of ocean crust more than 99 percent of the time, making the technique the most accurate so far.

Studying Coastal Eddies: Restaurants And Nurseries Of The Sea
Two NASA oceanographers have found and described numerous coastal ocean eddies off the southern California coast that are smaller and more abundant than previously reported

Sound Of The Sea A Clue To Climate
Scientists will be able to detect long term climate change by sending underwater acoustic signals across the Indian Ocean.

Why We See Red When Looking At Ocean Plants: Rutgers Marine Scientists Say Phytoplankton Changed Color 250 Million Years Ago
Green was the dominant color for plants both on land and in the ocean until about 250 million years ago when changes in the ocean's oxygen content - possibly sparked by a cataclysmic event - helped bring basic ocean plants with a red color to prominence -

Scientists Find That Of Tons Of Carbon Dioxide Get Stored In The Subtropical Oceans
The cold Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica soaks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere like a sponge, but scientists have discovered that the greenhouse gas doesn't stay there.

Dust From Africa Leads To Large Toxic Algae Blooms In Gulf Of Mexico, Study Finds
Saharan dust clouds travel thousands of miles and fertilize the water off the West Florida coast with iron, which kicks off blooms of toxic algae, according to a new study.

Oceanic Acidity
The ocean is getting more and more acidic, and that's bad news for coral reefs.

Research Shows Overfishing Of Sharks Key Factor In Coral Reef Decline
Understanding sharks and their significance as top predators —and the consequences of human activity towards them—has taken on new importance through a new study.

Widespread Oceanic Photopigments Convert Light into Energy
A new energy-generating, light-absorbing pigment called proteorhodopsin is widespread in the world's oceans, say scientists.

Hidden sponges determine coral reef's nutrient cycle
Marine organisms hidden in caves, such as sponges, play an extremely important role in the nutrient cycle of coral reefs.

Marine Ecologists To Help Rebuild Decreasing Fish Stocks
Marine ecologists are working with fisheries across Europe to further understanding of natural and human influences on decreasing fish populations.

Cardiac plasticity in fishes: environmental influences and intraspecific differences
This review focuses on the responses of cardiac physiology and anatomy to prolonged changes in environmentally relevant parameters, e.g. temperature, hypoxia...

The effect of temperature on swimming performance and oxygen consumption in adult sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) and coho (O. kisutch) salmon stocks
Knowledge of the swimming capabilities and metabolic rates of adult salmon, and the influence of temperature on them, is extremely limited. This is critical to understand the remarkable upstream migrations that these fish can make.

Ocean 'Dead Zones' Trigger Sex Changes In Fish, Posing Extinction Threat
Oxygen depletion in the world’s oceans, primarily caused by agricultural run-off and pollution, could spark the development of far more male fish than female, thereby threatening some species with extinction, according to a study...

Into The Dead Zone: Galveston Researcher Examines Loss Of Marine Life
A "dead zone," like the Stephen King novel of the same name, is a place where life can end...

Cannibalism In The North Atlantic: Scripps Researcher Finds Crustacean Species Keeps Population In Check By Eating Its Young
Rsearchers have shown that tiny marine crustaceans called copepods use cannibalism as a mechanism to limit their population.

How Noise Protects Entire Marine Ecosystems
Researchers have discovered that noise could bring order to chaotic systems, protect and maintain entire marine ecosystems, and even make the chemical industry greener.

Scientists Find Unusual Use Of Metals In The Ocean
Cadmium, commonly considered a toxic metal and often used in combination with nickel in batteries, has been found to have a biological use as a nutrient in the ocean, the first known biological use of cadmium in any life form.