Corals are under threat from warming seas, and new research shows that even the toughest corals will suffer.
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Over the past five years we’ve seen a significant increase in research on ocean acidification and warming seas, and their effect on marine life. Overall, unfortunately, the news is not good.
The EU wants to ban fishing below 600m, but the scientific case doesn’t stand up.
How will climate change affect life in the oceans? New research shows that the answer is likely good and bad.
The Great Southern Reef covers 71,000 square km and contributes more than A$10 billion to Australia’s economy each year.
Over the past 80 years sardine and anchovy have become icons of modern-day marine biology, oceanography and climate research.
Spreading fishing pressure evenly across whole marine ecosystems sounds like a great idea. But there’s a hitch – we can’t technologically do it, and even if we could, it would be expensive.
With their natural predators removed, sponges are free to take over coral reefs.
A fully protected marine reserve off a Scottish island is paying dividends.
A new ecology study doesn’t focus on how people degrade the environment. Instead, it untangles the way physical factors in a pristine ecosystem drive the biology of what lives there.
Western Australia’s marine environment is unique. Two world heritage areas, the largest fringing coral reef in Australia, and more than a thousand kilometres of underwater forests, supporting incredible…
The oceans are continuing to warm steadily despite an apparent slowdown in global warming at the earth’s surface, according to data collected by thousands of floating robots published today in Nature Climate…
Gaze out from the deck of a boat and you will see an ocean that was, in Henry David Thoreau’s phrase, “equally wild and unfathomable always”. There’s a stark contrast in appearance here between the apparently…
Coral reefs are the poster child for the damage people are doing to the world’s oceans. Overfishing, pollution and declining water quality have all taken their toll on reefs around the world. Perhaps the…
Consensus is growing that we are steering towards a sixth mass extinction event. There are calls for increased efforts to stop the accelerating loss of plants and animals. But do we really need to protect…
It has long been news that overfishing persists in many of the world’s oceans. Fish and invertebrate stocks have been over-exploited for our ever-hungry, growing human population, leaving some species…
Going to the beach this summer? If you’re in southern Australia, keep your eyes peeled for the world’s largest turtle, the leatherback. If you do, you can report sightings to researchers at Deakin University…
For a month or two every summer, beaches across the south-eastern Mediterranean might be packed but the inviting seas remain suspiciously empty. It’s jellyfish season, and the “nomads” are out in force…
You may not have heard of them or given them much thought, but phytoplankton — the microscopic plants that grow throughout the world’s oceans — are the foundation of oceanic food webs. Although tiny, they…
It’s one of the big mysteries in my career as a marine biologist. Something lurking in the seas off Britain has been chomping away at local porpoises and none of the usual suspects fit the bill. Now scientists…
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Professor of Marine Botany, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor, Macquarie University
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Professor, Macquarie University
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Professor, Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Chief Research Scientist - Environment, CSIRO
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Professor, Marine Biology, Adelaide University
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Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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Professor of Marine Fisheries Ecology, Macquarie University
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Professor Evolution & Ecology, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in marine ecology, UNSW
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Research Fellow in Marine Ecology, Marine Biological Association
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Postdoctoral researcher, marine ecology, Adelaide University