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Small Alga – Great Effect

The acidification of the oceans is increasing inexorably. In particular, marine organisms with calcareous skeletons such as sea shells, corals or calcareous…

Deep-sea mussels with highly toxic tenants

Imagine you have a tenant living in your house. They’re keeping your fridge topped up. But in addition to this, they’re producing all kinds of toxic…

Flowing electrons help ocean microbes gulp methane

This is the first time that direct interspecies electron transport–the movement of electrons from a cell, through the external environment, to another cell…

Sea-ice zone has a major influence on the ecosystem

In the last 30,000 years there was, at times, more mixing in the Southern Ocean than previously thought. This meant that vast quantities of nutrients were…

Young chum salmon may get biggest nutrition boost from Elliott Bay restored beaches

The fish hatch in the rivers and streams that feed into Puget Sound and almost immediately rely on eating small organisms near the shore, including in the…

A more acidic ocean will bend the mermaid's wineglass

The creature in question is Acetabularia acetabulum, commonly called the mermaid's wineglass. Reaching a height of just a few inches, this single-celled alga…

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