Marine life, fisheries increasingly threatened as the ocean loses oxygen: Study

Dec 07, 2019, at 05:00 pm

Madrid/IBNS: The loss of oxygen from the world’s ocean is increasingly threatening fish species and disrupting ecosystems, a new IUCN report warns. Ocean oxygen loss, driven by climate change and nutrient pollution, is a growing menace to fisheries and species such as tuna, marlin and sharks, according to the report released today at the UN Climate Change conference in Madrid. 

monitoring marine species across multiple sites in the wild.

Nov 27, 2018, at 04:34 pm

New York, Nov 27 (IBNS): New research from North Carolina State University demonstrates that consumer-grade drones are effective tools for monitoring marine species across multiple sites in the wild.

Study finds more losers than winners for Southern Ocean marine life

Sep 06, 2017, at 12:37 am

London, Sept 5 (IBNS): A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ over the next century as the Antarctic seafloor warms. The results are published today (4 September) in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Antarctic marine life may grow faster in a warming world, says study

Sep 06, 2017, at 12:32 am

London, Sept 5 (IBNS): A team of scientists has discovered that a 1°C rise in local sea temperature has massive impacts on an Antarctic marine community.