Lush seagrass meadows carpet the floor of the Mediterranean Sea off the Italian island of Elba. Seagrasses help form an important ecosystem in coastal environments, and they absorb a significant ...

The finding helps explain why some seaweeds, sponges, and corals appear to avoid most infections by fungi and bacteria, according to a study published May 19 Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Two years ago, when paleontologists first described the skeleton of the croc-sized marine reptile Atopodentatus unicus, they knew it was weird, but not this weird. New specimens of this Triassic ...

University of Rhode Island. "Marine plants can flee to avoid predators: First observation of predator avoidance behavior by phytoplankton." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 30 September 2012.

Seagrass is an underwater plant. Like land plants, seagrasses need light and carbon dioxide to perform photosynthesis. Human-generated carbon emissions are causing the world’s oceans to become more ...

Autumn storms help the ocean absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide and stimulate marine life by ‘stirring-up’ the nutrients that feed blooms of tiny marine plants. These microscopic marine plants, or ...

Terrestrial and marine habitats have been considered the ecosystems with the highest primary production on Earth by far. Microscopic algae in the upper layers of the oceans and plants on land bind ...

The naturally acidic seawater near an underwater volcano in Italy mimic pH levels that according to worst-case climate projections will be common by the end of the century and beyond. Scientists are ...

NuScale Power and Prodigy Clean Energy, a Canadian designer of small modular reactor (SMR) marine power stations, have completed the conceptual design and economic assessment phases of a potential ...

MARINE PARK – THANKS TO A $25,000 grant from the City Parks Foundation, the Marine Park Alliance will begin planting several native species of plants and trees in the marshlands next week, including ...