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Analysis of the fossil record shows a mysterious mass extinction that decimated the diversity of sharks in the world’s oceans, and they’ve never fully recovered. By Katherine Kornei – The New York Times Extinctions that obliterate wide swaths of life have reshaped Earth’s history. Typically triggered by an enormous environmental change — like an asteroid impact or a significant […]

Study Reveals the Fifth Consecutive Annual Rise in Ocean Temperatures Last year was the warmest year on record for the world’s oceans – just as the previous four years have all been record-breakers. A study published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences this week confirms the disturbing trend. The oceans have absorbed more than 90 per cent of […]

The Twilight Zone… No, it is neither the name of a fancy new Disneyland attraction nor the sequel of a famous teenage vampire movie. It is actually the unscientific way of referring to a very peculiar place in our Oceans. It’s a transition area, where the natural sunlight is heavily dimmed as the depth increases. […]

Corals in the Maldives are showing some resilience, adaptability and even recovery from climate-change effects, according to marine biologist Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, following a reef-monitoring diving expedition, the latest in a series undertaken over each of the past nine years. Biosphere Expeditions sets up the “citizen-science” dive trips to survey reefs in the central Maldives […]

Global warming has caused such extensive damage to the Great Barrier Reef that scientists say its coral may never recover. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, baby coral in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have declined by 89% due to mass bleaching in 2016 and 2017. The study measured the number of surviving adult corals in the […]