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Pacific fisheries meet 'fails to end tuna overfishing'
Conservation body accused of failing to take responsibilities seriously.
- Prime Sarmiento
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Blue whales roll with it
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Blue whales pirouette for food
The juggernauts of the sea are nimble giants at feeding time, video footage reveals.
- Zoe Corbyn
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More creatures under the sea
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Coral colonies call for help
Threatened animals summon fish to trim toxic seaweed.
- Daniel Cressey
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Chinese survey reveals widespread coastal pollution
Massive declines in coral reefs, mangrove swamps and wetlands.
- Jane Qiu
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Government 'confusion' is harming sockeye salmon
Report criticizes dual role for Canada's fisheries department.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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How to avoid the pitfalls of inbreeding
By balancing self-fertilization with occasional sex, a small marine fish maintains a robust immune system.
- Janelle Weaver
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50 & 100 years ago
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Antarctic seas in the balance
Plans to protect swathes of ocean face tough test.
- Daniel Cressey
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Contemplating a coral comeback
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Questioning tuna marine reserves
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Whale woe in the Atlantic
Four decades of data show most whale deaths were caused by humans.
- Daniel Cressey
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Symbiosis may fertilize seas
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Oceanic nitrogen reservoir regulated by plankton diversity and ocean circulation
Here, the feedback between marine nitrogen fixation and denitrification is shown to yield an oceanic nitrate deficit more than double its observed value in a model with realistic ocean circulation; this discrepancy can be resolved by accounting for diversity in the metabolic N:P requirements of plankton.
- Thomas Weber
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Seals see glowing prey
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The mystery of high seas methane
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Ploughing the deep sea floor
Bottom trawling is a fishing technique whereby heavy nets and gear scrape along the sea bed, and is shown here to disturb sediment fluxes and modify the sea floor morphology over large spatial scales.
- Pere Puig
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Scorecard for the seas
An index assessing the health of the oceans gives a global score of 60 out of 100. But the idea that a single number can encompass both environmental status and the benefits that the oceans provide for humans may prove controversial. See Article p.615
- Derek P. Tittensor
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Potential methane reservoirs beneath Antarctica
On the basis of data from other subglacial environments and simulations of the accumulation of methane hydrate in Antarctic sedimentary basins, it seems there could be unsuspected, large stores of methane beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
- J. L. Wadham
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Spawning coral monitored for effects of climate change
As waters warm, researchers keep a wary eye on reef life cycles.
- Melissa Gaskill
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Doubling of marine dinitrogen-fixation rates based on direct measurements
A newly developed method of measuring oceanic nitrogen-fixation rates provides significantly higher estimates than a current widely applied technique, and could close gaps in the marine nitrogen budget.
- Tobias Großkopf
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End of an age for Aquarius
Iconic underwater research base set to close its airlocks for the last time this year.
- Mark Schrope
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The great iron dump
The discovery that marine algal blooms deposit organic carbon to the deep ocean answers some — but not all — of the questions about whether fertilizing such blooms is a viable strategy for mitigating climate change. See Article p.313
- Ken O. Buesseler
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Iron seeding success revives geoengineering hopes
Southern Ocean is an untapped carbon sink, study finds.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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European fisheries reform stumbles forward
Discarding unwanted fish will be banned, but questions remain over how and when rules will be enforced.
- Daniel Cressey
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Fukushima has positive fallout for marine science
Radiation tracks movements of animals, water and atmosphere.
- Alice Lighton
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Seafood labelling under fire
Study finds that some stocks certified as 'sustainable' are overfished.
- Daniel Cressey
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Can coral cope with climate change?
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James Cameron heads into the abyss
Film director's dive to ocean's deepest point could be a boon to deep-sea science.
- Mark Schrope
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Marine worm rewrites theory of brain evolution
Tools to build complex vertebrate brains assembled long before vertebrates had them.
- Amy Maxmen
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Energy: Plumbing the depths
A chronicle of events preceding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has a thriller-like edge, finds Amanda Mascarelli.
- Amanda Mascarelli
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Q&A: A slow-motion crisis
Nature Outlook talks to Rutgers University environmental scientist Paul Falkowski about the effects of human activity and climate change on communities of life-sustaining oceanic microorganisms.
- Paul Falkowski
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Ocean Science: The power of plankton
Do tiny floating microorganisms in the ocean's surface waters play a massive role in controlling the global climate?
- Paul Falkowski
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Conservation meets capitalism in Florida
An alternative financial strategy for coral-reef restoration as government funding dries up.
- Daniel Cressey
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Squid can fly to save energy
Photographic study shows that cephalopods travel faster in air than in water.
- Jessica Marshall
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Whaling: Ways to agree on quotas
- Justin G. Cooke
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Marine ecology: Attack of the blobs
Jellyfish will bloom as ocean health declines, warn biologists. Are they already taking over?
- Mark Schrope
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Whales for sale
A quota-trading scheme could end conflict between whalers and conservationists.
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Conservation: Harpoons and heartstrings
A history of cetacean research highlights its precarious place between whaling and politics, finds Philip Hoare.
- Philip Hoare
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A market approach to saving the whales
The future of the International Whaling Commission is tenuous. A 'whale conservation market' might rescue it, say Christopher Costello, Leah R. Gerber and Steven Gaines.
- Christopher Costello
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