Courtesy of The University of British Columbia News A rare double-barrier reef in the Philippines is facing grave threats and urgently needs increased protection, according to new photographic evidence released today by a team of marine conservationists and photographers organized by Project Seahorse, a partnership of the University of British Columbia and the Zoological Society [...]

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Courtesy of University of Alberta News By Brian Murphy The ability of mussels to cling to just about everything in their underwater world has yielded more important findings for a University of Alberta researcher. Chemical and materials engineering researcher Hongbo Zeng says academic freedom at the U of A and the university’s encouragement of innovation, sustainability and [...]

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Courtesy The University of British Columbia In the marine world, high-energy prey make for high-energy predators. And to survive, such marine predators need to sustain the right kind of high-energy diet. Not just any prey will do, suggests a new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and University of La Rochelle, in [...]

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Courtesy of Florida International University News Giant eyeballs aren’t a regular topic of conversation for FIU professor Heather Bracken-Grissom. But then again, such things don’t normally wash ashore in South Florida. A softball-size eyeball was found on Pompano Beach Oct. 10. The strange blue orb, found by a beachgoer, left people from all across the country wondering [...]

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From the University of Melbourne The world’s corals and coral reefs face severe degradation if global-mean temperatures rise 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, an international study has found. The study was published today in Nature Climate Change. The study by a research team from Australia, Germany and Canada, looked at more than 2000 coral reef [...]

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The health of the world’s oceans received a score of 60 out of 100 from a team of international scientists, including fisheries researchers at the University of British Columbia. The team undertook the first global quantitative assessment of ocean health and created the Ocean Health Index, published today in the journal Nature. To calculate the [...]

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The full impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has yet to reveal itself, say researchers in the Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The largest-ever accidental release of oil into marine waters could impact earth’s ecosystems for years to come — and not just along the 650 miles of the northern Gulf [...]

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When you think of the trash problem in the ocean – the great garbage patch in the Pacific – what do you imagine? Like myself, I’m sure you envisioned something like the ocean’s surface covered with plastic coke bottles and six-pack rings. Unfortunately, the reality of this situation is far more complex. Plastic doesn’t particularly [...]

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Courtesy of The University of British Columbia Plastic pollution off the northwest coast of North America is reaching the level of the notoriously polluted North Sea, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of British Columbia. The study, published online in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, examined stomach contents of [...]

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Ocean advocates and surfers, Laird Hamilton and Kelly Meyer lead a call for action to protect our oceans. Tweet

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