Peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal publishing research on marine ecosystems, species, conservation, and oceanography.
Florida Tech researchers sampling 80 sites on the Banana River floor found oxygen 10 to 15 percent lower there than near the surface or at mid-depth. They tie that bottom layer to the release of phosphorus that feeds algal blooms, though the size of that release is still unmeasured.
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Scottish researchers used bomb radiocarbon in five stranded whales' teeth to show sperm and killer whale tooth layers form yearly through midlife. That gives museum teeth a dated record of each whale's life, though layers formed in old age were a less reliable age marker.
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Tsinghua's Matteo Convertino and colleagues value fully restored oyster reefs in 10 hotspot countries at $12 trillion a year. The figure counts gross benefit only, so whether restoration pays back depends on a cost side still to be worked out.
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Nova Southeastern researchers who cut light by 60% over Florida Keys brain corals in 2024 saw them bleach less than 20 unshaded controls. The summer killed no coral in either group, so the result supports shading as short-term protection for a few chosen colonies.
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University of Miami researchers mapped Guam's Tumon Bay from the air and measured a 59% decline in massive coral cover after Typhoon Mawar. Maps that cover a whole bay at the scale of single colonies could guide where restoration money goes, if the classifier holds up on reef it was never trained on.
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Sorbonne scientist François Michaud's team found plastic more than 3,900 m down off Ecuador, the first recorded in the eastern equatorial Pacific's abyss. Their six-year Salinas beach survey logged the same kinds of bags and fishing line, though the study traced no deep item back to the shore.
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A new Frontiers in Marine Science study documents fin, humpback and minke whales feeding in numbers along a coast where they were once rare. The consumption estimate is the part managers should read.
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