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URI, Greenfins Developing Techniques for Tuna Aquaculture

The fish are part of the first effort in the United States to breed tuna in a land-based aquaculture facility to meet the growing demand for one of the ocean’s…

Rapid adaptation is purple sea urchins' weapon against ocean acidification

“What we want to know is, given that this is a process that happens over time, can marine animals adapt? Could evolution come to the rescue?” said postdoctoral…

Questions rise about seeding for ocean C02 sequestration

These blooms contain iron-eating microscopic phytoplankton that absorb C02 from the air through the process of photosynthesis and provide nutrients for marine…

World Oceans Month Brings Mixed News for Oysters

In World Oceans Month, there's mixed news for the Pacific Northwest oyster industry.For the past several years, it has struggled with significant losses due to…

Researchers unravel reasons of global success in the calcified alga Emiliania huxleyi

As the researchers report in an online prepublication of the scientific journal Nature, the microalga’s “trick” is genetic diversity. It has a particularly…

Life underground

Microbes are living more than 500 feet beneath the seafloor in 5 million-year-old sediment, according to new findings by researchers at the University of…

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