Subglacial Lake Drilling
Date: 12/2/2014 Evidence of diverse life forms dating back nearly 100,000 years was found in subglacial lake sediments by British scientists. Direct sampling …
Indias New Research Vessel
Date: 12/2/2014 Indias government will invest in a new scientific research platform vessel to be built in Mumbai, India. The Class XII merchant vessel will …
Scuba Training Organization Sued
Date: 12/2/2014 The husband of a woman who died while scuba diving is suing the international diver training organization PADI, alleging it inadequately …
WWII Warship Grave Stripped
Date: 12/2/2014 The wreck of HMAS Perth (torpedoed by the Japanese in 1942) is being destroyed by commercial salvagers in Indonesian waters. The warship is the …
Shark Film Seeks Your Help
Date: 12/2/2014 Filmmakers launched a crowd funding project to raise money for FINdonesia, a film on shark fishing. The team wants to make an expose of …
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nesting Activity
Date: 12/2/2014 New research indicates that in the Northwest Atlantic the number of returning nesting females in the population, and favourable climate …
New Actors in the Arctic Ecosystem
Date: 12/2/2014 Biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have shown that amphipods from the warmer Atlantic …
Dramatic Shift in Pacific Ocean Ecosystem
Date: 12/2/2014 Long-lived deep-sea corals preserve evidence of a major shift in the open Pacific Ocean ecosystem since around 1850, according to researchers …
Shark, Human Proteins Stunningly Similar
Date: 12/2/2014 Despite widespread fascination, the world’s oldest ocean predators have been a genetic mystery. The first deep dive into a great white …
Killer Whales Hunt Marine Mammals at Night
Date: 12/2/2014 Scientists found evidence that marine-mammal-eating killer whales eavesdrop on their prey. Previous research showed mammal-eating killer whales …