Science Round-up

This issue explores:

• Migrating is not enough for modern planktonic foraminifera in a changing ocean

• Half of Atlantic reef-building corals at elevated risk of extinction due to climate change and other threats

• Ocean literacy research community: co-identifying gaps and priorities to advance the UN Ocean Decade

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – November 2024

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

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – October 2024

This issue explores:

• Rethinking sustainability of marine fisheries for a fast-changing planet

• Assessments of expected MPA outcomes can inform and improve biodiversity conservation: Case studies using The MPA Guide

• Over 80% of the European Union’s marine protected area only marginally regulates human activities

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – September 2024

This issue explores:

• Corals that survive repeated thermal stress show signs of selection and acclimatisation 

• The ocean losing its breath under the heatwaves

• Directional swimming patterns in jellyfish aggregations

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – August 2024

This issue explores:

• Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor

• Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk

• From what-if to what-now: Status of the deep-sea mining regulations and underlying drivers for outstanding issues

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – July 2024

This issue explores:

• Up to 80% of threatened and commercial species across European marine protected areas face novel climates under high emission scenario

• Proof of concept for a new sensor to monitor marine litter from space

• Heinrich event ice discharge and the fate of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – June 2024

This issue explores:

• Ocean protection quality is lagging behind quantity: Applying a scientific framework to assess real marine protected area progress against the 30 by 30 target
• Global mapping and evolution of persistent fronts in Large Marine Ecosystems over the past 40 years
• Whales and cephalopods in a deep-sea arms race

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – May 2024

This issue explores:

• The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable ocean
• Ice shelf basal channel shape determines channelized ice-ocean interactions
• Soundscape enrichment increases larval settlement rates for the brooding coral Porites astreoides

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – April 2024

This issue explores:

• Environmental variables and bottom trawling effort affect the complexity and distribution of soft-bottom octocorals and burrowing megafauna communities in the Gulf of Cádiz
• Fishing for oil and meat drives irreversible defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays
• A remarkable new deepsea nereidid (Annelida: Nereididae) with gills
• Scientists Confirm Underwater Mountains Harbor Abundant Life Off Chile’s Coast
• New ocean species discovered in Bounty Trough

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – March 2024

This issue explores:

• Remote submerged banks and mesophotic ecosystems can provide key habitat for endangered marine megafauna
• Top predator recovery abates geomorphic decline of a coastal ecosystem
• Counting Nemo: anemonefish Amphiprion ocellaris identify species by number of white bars

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – February 2024