This issue explores:
- Selective breeding enhances coral heat tolerance to marine heatwaves
- Animal life in the shallow subseafloor crust at deep-sea hydrothermal vents
- Cumulative human impacts on global marine fauna highlight risk to biological and functional diversity
Welcome to the October 2024 issue of the OneOcean Science Mailout.
With the 16th Conference of Parties for the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD COP-16) currently underway in Cali, Colombia, this edition of the newsletter focuses on marine biodiversity, with three papers on:
- The enhancement of a reef-building coral species tolerance to heat stress that, alongside urgent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, offers hope for bolstering coral resilience in the face of climate change;
- A recent discovery of animal life beneath the ocean’s crust, where for the first time worms, snails and other invertebrates were found thriving in cavities under the seafloor around hydrothermal vents;
- An assessment of the impact of human activities on more than 21,000 marine animal species worldwide, revealing that animals in untouched habitats are at greater risk from human impacts than previously thought.
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