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Microorganisms duke it out within algal blooms

An unseen war rages between the ocean's tiniest organisms, and it has significant implications for understanding the ocean's role in climate change, according…

Fishing meets science with waders and smartphones

“As scientists, we hope these data help us better understand where groundwater enters streams and where streamwater drains away to the groundwater,” explains…

Wastewater treatment plants significant source of microplastics in rivers

Microplastics – small pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) wide – are an emerging environmental concern in ocean waters, where they can harm…

El Niño prolongs longest global coral bleaching event

Global warming and the intense El Niño now underway are prolonging the longest global coral die-off on record, according to NOAA scientists monitoring and…

Intense deep-ocean turbulence in equatorial Pacific could help drive global circulation

The findings, presented this week at the annual American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences conference and recently published online in the journal Geophysical…

Researchers sequence seagrass genome, unlocking valuable resource

The University of Delaware's Pamela Green is part of an international consortium of researchers from 35 laboratories that have published the genome of the…

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