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UM Rosenstiel School-led team reveals new details on modern-day stromatolites.

UM Rosenstiel School-led team reveals new details on modern-day stromatolites.

Preventing bycatch of threatened marine megafauna is a challenging task, writes Brian D. SMITH from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), an SOS-Save Our Species grantee, in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Early one morning WCS researcher Rubaiyat Mansur received a phone call. It was from Sonjoy Kumar DASH, one of the gillnet fishing captains participating in … ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Preventing bycatch of threatened marine megafauna is a challenging task, writes Brian D. SMITH from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), an SOS-Save Our Species grantee, in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Early one morning WCS researcher Rubaiyat Mansur received a phone call. It was from Sonjoy Kumar DASH, one of the gillnet fishing captains participating in … ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The estimated period in which human colonization of Madagascar began has expanded recently to 5000-1000 y B.P., six times its range in 1990, prompting revised thinking about early migration sources, routes, maritime capability and environmental changes. Cited evidence of colonization age includes anthropogenic palaeoecological data 2500-2000 y B.P., megafaunal butchery marks 4200-1900 y B.P. and OSL dating to 4400 y B.P. of the Lakaton'i Anja occupation site. Using large samples of newly-excavated bone from sites in which megafaunal butchery was earlier dated >2000 y B.P. we find no butchery marks until ~1200 y B.P., with associated sedimentary and palynological data of initial human impact about the same time. Close analysis of the Lakaton'i Anja chronology suggests the site dates <1500 y B.P. Diverse evidence from bone damage, palaeoecology, genomic and linguistic history, archaeology, introduced biota and seafaring capability indicate initial human colonization of Madagascar 1350-1100 y B.P.

Tech-tagged albatrosses bode ill for rogue trawlers as French Navy battles illegal fishing

Data from a landmark study of the world's longest migrating seabird reveals how overland migration is an integral part of their amazing journey.

Marine scientists from the University of Queensland, WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups have developed a methodology to assess fish stocks that combines new data with archeological and historical records - some dating back to the 8th Century AD. In a study conducted in along the coast of Kenya, the researchers reconstructed species' occurrences by combining modern underwater transect surveys and catch assessments with historical records that included observations from 18th century naturalists and data from archaeological sites including ancient middens dating back more than a thousand years.

Something smells fishy: scientists discover illegal fishing using shark tracking devices.

According to new data released today by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, 835 large ocean-going commercial vessels were sold to the scrap yards in 2017. 543 were broken down - by hand - on the tidal beaches of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: amounting to 80,3% of all tonnage dismantled globally.

Microplastics pollute most remote and uncharted areas of the ocean.

The causes of coastal flooding in the Maldives are more complex than previously thought, according to a new study from the University of Southampton.

Decadal climate variability in the southern Indian Ocean could be predicted up to 10 years ahead, according to a study led by Dr. MORIOKA at Application Laboratory, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC: ASAHIKO Taira, President) and his colleagues. To investigate the predictability, the scientists have used sea surface temperature (SST) observation data during 1982 to 2015 to initialize a state-of-the-art coupled general circulation model, the Scale Interaction Experiment Frontier Research Center 2 for Global Change (SINTEX-F2*) with a simple SST-nudging scheme. Their decadal reforecast experiments demonstrated moderately high prediction skills of yearly mean SST in the southwest Indian Ocean at 10-year lead time.

Geological Insights from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search.

Policymakers could use surf breaks to create jobs and reduce poverty.

Evidence mounts for a search further north for missing flight MH370.

New study confirms the oceans are warming rapidly.

Climate change: Model predicts Australia to lose famous sites in new sea-level rise.

East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is one of the most dominant climate systems in East Asia. The anomalous EASM can cause the extreme high temperature, flood or drought. And El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the dominating mode in the tropical Pacific, is the most important factor affecting EASM. Understanding the processes for interannual to interdecadal variability of EASM-ENSO relationship is crucial.

Sea levels around the world have risen by 1.7 millimeters (0.07 inches) on average each year since 1880, but in recent years, scientists have observed a rapid increase in sea level in the north Indian Ocean. Tide gauge records and other datasets reveal the pace of sea level rise in the north Indian Ocean has accelerated to 3.1 millimeters (0.12 inches) per year within the last three decades.

African Nations Are Sharing Data to Crack Down on Illegal.