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A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth

For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did not always contain this life-sustaining substance, and…

Migrating animals add new depth to how the ocean “breathes”

Research begun at Princeton University and recently reported on in the journal Nature Geoscience found that animals ranging from plankton to small fish consume…

Resourceful Microbes Reign in World’s Oceans

A research team led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has discovered that marine microbes are adapted to very narrow and specialized niches in their…

Genetic survey sheds light on Oceans' lean, mean microbial machines: UBC research

The findings, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first direct evidence of widespread genome…

The Sands of Time: What 30,000 Years of Sediment Can Teach US About the Changing Ocean

A team of international scientists known as the NICOPP (Nitrogen Cycle in the Ocean, Past and Present) working group, led by Dalhousie oceanographer Markus…

Researchers Predict Possible Record-Setting Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone,' Modest Chesapeake Bay Oxygen-Starved Zone

The Gulf forecast, one of two announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, calls for an oxygen-depleted, or hypoxic, region of between…

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