“Climate change remains the biggest threat to coral reefs globally. It causes more frequent and severe marine heatwaves, leading to shortened windows of recovery for corals from bleaching and other disturbances."
Even though the fishing industry isn't the only thing affecting the harbor porpoises, the researchers are especially focused on the threat that commercial fishing poses. "If the harbor porpoises of the Belt Sea disappear, they might never come back. Therefore, we need to do something now to protect and stabilize the population."
An orca (killer whale) has been observed, for the first-ever time, individually consuming a great white shark—and within just two minutes. Understanding the ecological dynamics of killer whale predation is paramount for marine conservation efforts.
Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) has expanded the reach of Pacific Ocean monitoring with the deployment of new deep-sea Argo floats that collect vital ocean data while traveling up and down through the water column, the space between the sea surface and the seafloor.
Record breaking marine heat waves will cause devastating mass coral bleaching worldwide in the next few years, according to a University of Queensland coral reef scientist.
