A new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) shows a significant increase in frequency of warm saltwater intrusions from the deep ocean to the continental shelf along the Middle Atlantic Bight, which extends from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
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Size Matters: Examining the Effect of Body Size on Birth Rates in North Atlantic Right Whales
Today, fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales remain.
Experts Predict Top Emerging Impacts on Ocean Biodiversity Over Next Decade
An international team of experts has produced a list of 15 issues they believe are likely to have a significant impact on marine and coastal biodiversity over the next five to ten years.
Carbon Conservation Efforts Would be Enhanced by Highlighting Threatened Forest Primates
Efforts to conserve the carbon stored in tropical forests would be enhanced by linking the work to the charismatic, threatened primates that live there, Oregon State University ecologists assert today in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ozone Depletion Over North Pole Produces Weather Anomalies
Many people are familiar with the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, but what is less well known is that occasionally, the protective ozone in the stratosphere over the Arctic is destroyed as well, thinning the ozone layer there.
Researchers Rediscover Oak Tree Thought to Be Extinct
Botanical researchers representing a coalition of more than 10 institutions have discovered an oak tree once thought to be extinct, and now in immediate need of conservation within Big Bend National Park in Texas.
