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Big squid: All one family

By Stephen Ornes / March 28, 2013

A giant squid is unloaded by fishermen at a wharf in Melbourne, Australia. Credit: David Paul/University of Melbourne

Genes show all giant squid belong to one, worldwide species

Posted in Animals | Tagged cells, Clyde Roper, Copenhagen, DNA, getinvolved, giant squid, M. Thomas Gilbert, Natural History Museum, North Atlantic Ocean, Ocean, Smithsonian Institution

Seal scientists

By Stephen Ornes / September 17, 2012

As elephant seals dove, swam and fed around an Antarctic ice shelf, sensors on their heads took measurements of the surrounding water. Credit: Lars Boehme

Elephant seals help climate scientists understand deepwater heating around Antarctica

Posted in Weather & Climate | Tagged Antarctica, climate change, elephant seals, Fimbul Ice Shelf, getinvolved, global warming, ice shelf, meltwater, Norwegian Polar Institute, Ocean, oceanography, salinity, sea level, Tore Hattermann

Changing climate alters fish behavior

By Stephen Ornes / June 22, 2011

Changing ocean waters may change clownfish behavior in the future.

Study finds clownfish don’t swim away from scary sounds in future ocean conditions

Posted in Animals | Tagged acid, acids and bases, getinvolved, Ocean, pH, water

Sea changes

By Stephen Ornes / April 7, 2011

Blue patches indicate parts of the ocean that are more acidic than the yellow and red areas. Stars show coral reefs, which can lose their skeletons in more acidic water.

Carbon dioxide is making the oceans more acidic

Posted in Earth | Tagged acid, acids and bases, calcium carbonate, carbon dioxide, chem of life, climate change, coral reefs, ecology, Fossil fuels, invertebrates, Marine snail, Ocean, Ocean acidification, pH, sea changes, solutions, water

Acid Snails

By Emily Sohn / October 19, 2007

Changing chemistry in the world’s oceans could affect the ability of a snail to defend itself.

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged acid, acids and bases, invertebrates, Marine snail, Ocean, Ocean acidification, pH, sea changes, solutions, water

The Pacific Ocean’s Bald Spot

By Carolyn Gramling / October 13, 2006

A large swath of seafloor at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean lacks sediment.

Posted in Earth | Tagged bare zone, Ocean, open ocean, sediment