Salt marsh microbes threaten to mutate the atmosphere
Turf wars between the microbes dictate how much carbon salt marshes store and how much methane they pump into the air.
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Trying to tame the tide exacerbates climate crisis
Blocking the flow of saltwater can turn coastal wetlands into methane belchers.
Researchers see little evidence more white sharks prowling North Atlantic
A new study of the distribution of the endangered great white shark in Canadian waters says an underwater detection network suggests the population remains stable but is not growing.
Robot buoys track Atlantic right whales' sounds to warn ships
A Cape Cod science center and one of the world’s largest shipping businesses are collaborating on a project to use robotic buoys to protect a vanishing whale from lethal collisions with ships.
Scientists await necropsy results on right whale found in U.S. waters
Scientists continue to wait for necropsy results that could help determine what killed a North Atlantic right whale whose badly decomposed carcass was found this month off Long Island, N.Y.
Off Canada's East Coast, a hunt to detect 'beautiful' great white sharks
The great white sharks move torpedo-like through East Coast waters, cruelly efficient hunters with multiple rows of serrated teeth devouring seals and other prey.
'Enormous breakthrough' for great white shark expedition off Nova Scotia
The Ocearch research team came to Nova Scotia this fall on a hunch.
Right whale researchers meet in Halifax to sound alarm about species decline
Their names were Glacier, Starboard and Peanut. The colourfully named mammals were among 15 North Atlantic right whales who died off the coast of Canada and the U.S. in recent months.
Study: Great white sharks are swimming farther and deeper
Researchers in Massachusetts say white sharks appear to venture offshore farther, with more frequency and at greater depths than previously known in the Atlantic.