Marine biology
Mapping the colorful and diverse creatures of the Antarctic seas
Hidden under the cover of sea-ice for most of the year, and living in cold water near the seafloor, are thousands of unique species. Research has generated new techniques to map where these species live, and predict how this might change in the future.
If you think you’ve seen it all — how about a jellyfish that can actually get younger?
A novelist and a marine biologist have teamed up to write a book about some of the ocean’s oldest, oddest, fiercest and strangest creatures. And just as you come to love (or at least admire) them, you find out they are in trouble.A novelist and a marine biologist have teamed up to write a book about some of the ocean’s oldest, oddest, fiercest and strangest creatures. And just as you come to love (or at least admire) them, you find out they are in trouble.
For more accurate weather forecasts, follow the fish
A pair of researchers in Florida developed a startling hypothesis over a round of golf: Tracking fish could tell us more about meteorological patterns around the world. Two years later, that hypothesis is bearing out, with great impacts for science.
Chile Assists Sea Lions
Producer Bob Carty reports from the Pacific coast of Chile where El Niño has had a devastating impact on some well established marine wildlife. Marine biologists there say they’re now learning to prepare for what other changes to marine life the odd weather may be bringing their way.
Pfiesteria: Cell from Hell
An unusual single celled organism that seems to flourish in polluted waters is being blamed for massive fish kills in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and North Carolina. The disease agent is called Pfiesteria, and scientiests have dubbed it the cell from hell. Now, some researchers, anglers and divers suspect it may also harm humans. The pfiesteria […]