By Joanne Preston*When we think of mass habitat extinction, colourful, diverse and highly visible ecosystems such as tropical rain forests and coral reefs come to ...

Research published earlier in the week reveals that microplastics often accumulate on the deep sea floor in the same place as diverse and dense marine ...

UK.- New research reveals that farmed salmon have smaller ‘jaw hooks’ or ‘kype’- a secondary sexual trait, likened to the antlers of a stag, making ...

China.- Researchers in Wuhan Botanical Garden recently established a sequential phototrophic–mixotrophic cultivation (SPMC) strategy to improve the yield of microalgae cultured in open raceway pond. ...

USA.- Researchers have developed a new method to identify illegally trafficked European eels, and it has already led to the arrest and prosecution of smugglers ...

An exciting new project from the European Union’s (EU) INTERREG Atlantic Area funding programme will focus on assisting academics to transfer knowledge from their research ...

UK.- Ocean acidification could have serious consequences for the millions of people globally whose lives depend on coastal protection, fisheries and aquaculture, a new publication ...