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Deep Carbon: Quest underway to discover its quantity, movements, origins and forms in Earth
Posted on March 4, 2013 | No CommentsDeep Carbon Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington DC 4-Mar-2013 Probing the secrets of volcanoes and diamonds, sources of gas and oil, and the origins of life itself, Deep Carbon Observatory scientists... -
Sea-surfing ‘wave glider’ robot deployed to help track white sharks in the Pacific
Posted on August 10, 2012 | No CommentsBlock Lab, Stanford University, Monterey Bay, CA, USA 16-Aug-2012 New high-tech ocean observers debut above ‘The Blue Serengeti’; ’Shark Net’ app lets public follow tagged animals in real time Monterey Bay,... -
Redesigned and vastly expanded, Encyclopedia of Life Version 2 offers information on 1/3rd of known species
Posted on September 5, 2011 | No CommentsEncyclopedia of Life (EOL.org) Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 5 September 2011 Landmark global online collaboration now offers trusted information on 700,000+ species, 35 million+ pages of scanned literature, 600,000+ photos... -
How many species on Earth? 8.7 million
Posted on August 23, 2011 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life, Washington DC 23 Aug 2011 Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million). That is a new, estimated total number of species on... -
Unlisted ingredients in teas and herbal brews revealed in DNA tests by high school students
Posted on July 20, 2011 | No CommentsRockefeller University, New York 20 Jul 11 Take a second look at your iced or steaming tea. Guided by scientific experts, three New York City high school students using tabletop... -
Teeming with life, Pacific’s California current likened to Africa’s Serengeti Plain
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life, Washington DC / Tagging of Pacific Palagics project, Pacific Grove, CA 22 June 2011 Decade of electronic tagging, tracking of 23 top Pacific Ocean predators reveals remarkable... -
Higher density means world forests are capturing more carbon
Posted on June 6, 2011 | No CommentsRockefeller University, New York / University of Helsinki 06 Jun 11 Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, U.S. and European researchers say in a new... -
Speed installation of system to monitor vital signs of global ocean, scientists urge
Posted on November 2, 2010 | No CommentsPartnership for Observation of the Global Oceans Plymouth, UK 1-Oct-2010 ‘It is past time to get serious about measuring what’s happening to the seas around us’ The ocean surface is... -
Student sleuths exploring with DNA barcodes reveal zoo of 95 species in typical NYC homes – find a mystery cockroach and new evidence of food fraud
Posted on January 2, 2010 | No CommentsRockefeller University New York City 28-Dec-2009 Two New York City high school students exploring their homes using the latest high-tech DNA analysis techniques were astonished to discover a veritable zoo... -
Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss
Posted on November 29, 2009 | No Comments22-Nov-2009 Census of Marine Life Washington DC Deep sea teeming with species that have never known sunlight Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution... -
DNA barcodes: Creative new uses span health, fraud, smuggling, history, more
Posted on November 9, 2009 | No CommentsConsortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 6-Nov-2009 The scientific ability to quickly and accurately identify species through DNA “barcoding” is being embraced and applied... -
Cool new tools let public contribute to massive interactive online biodiversity encyclopedia
Posted on September 8, 2009 | No CommentsEncyclopedia of Life Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 23-Aug-2009 Over 30,000 still images and video, as well as local information about changing biodiversity, have been uploaded to the Encyclopedia of Life... -
Scientists announce major global collaboration to create online ‘macroscopic observatory’ of Earth’s biodiversity
Posted on June 1, 2009 | No CommentsConsortium for the Barcode of Life, Encyclopedia of Life Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Natural History Museum, London 31-May-2009 Biodiversity information, innovative internet architecture being fused to create seamless, global... -
Ocean life in olden days: Researchers upend modern notions of ‘natural’ animal sizes, abundance
Posted on June 1, 2009 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 24-May-2009 Census of Marine Life historians reconstruct images of past sea life that boggle today’s imagination Before oil hunters in the early 1800s harpooned... -
Census of Marine Life explorers find hundreds of identical species thrive in both Arctic, Antarctic
Posted on February 18, 2009 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 15-Feb-2009 Earth’s unique, forbidding ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets to Census of Marine Life explorers, who... -
Scientists Report Major Steps Towards 1st Census of Marine Life
Posted on November 11, 2008 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 9-Nov-2008 Among report’s revelations: Antarctic ancestry of many octopus species, behemoth bacteria, colossal sea stars, mammoth mollusks, more In a report on progress towards... -
Explorers find hundreds of undescribed corals, other species on familiar Australian reefs
Posted on October 9, 2008 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington D.C. 18-Sep-2008 Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a... -
Students Use DNA Barcodes to Unmask “Mislabeled” Fish at Grocery Stores, Restaurants
Posted on August 25, 2008 | No CommentsRockefeller University / Trinity School New York 22-Aug-08 Two New York City high school friends, curious about new DNA barcoding technology, discovered that fish at local stores and restaurants... -
Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010
Posted on June 27, 2008 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington D.C. 25-Jun-2008 World Register of Marine Species inaugurated with first 122,500 validated names; over 56,000 aliases for ocean species identified Census of Marine Life-affiliated scientists... -
Marine explorers marvel at ‘Brittlestar City’ on seamount in powerful current swirling around Antarctica
Posted on May 19, 2008 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 18-May-2008 Millions of starfish-like creatures catch passing food in 4 km/h current; cod shelter from ‘rattling’ current in folds of huge bubblegum coral See... -
Scientists to explore life’s mysteries through encyclopedic ‘macroscope’
Posted on March 4, 2008 | No CommentsEncyclopoedia of Life Smithsonian Institution 25 Feb 2008 The first 30,000 pages of a massive online Encyclopedia of Life were unveiled today (Feb. 27) at the prestigious Technology, Entertainment... -
Marine scientists warn human safety, prosperity depend on better ocean observing system
Posted on November 27, 2007 | No CommentsPartnership for Observation of the Global Oceans, Plymouth, UK, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 25-Nov-2007 Speedy diagnosis of the temper and vital signs of the oceans... -
Amid spiralling government interest, world’s top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei
Posted on September 27, 2007 | No CommentsConsortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 14-Sep-2007 Major advances foreseen in health, consumer and environment protection, more About 350 DNA barcoding experts from 46 nations will converge in... -
Tuna Past and Present
Posted on August 26, 2007 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life, Washington DC 5-Aug-2007 Historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe; Tagging reveals migration, breeding secrets of declining population Ocean historians affiliated with the... -
Diverse sea ‘bugs’ revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
Posted on March 7, 2007 | No CommentsMay 4, 2006 Census of Marine Life Zooplankton DNA Sequenced at Sea; scientists census tiny species with starring role in food chain, world climate Full text: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/coml-ds050206.php Example coverage: click... -
Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
Posted on February 25, 2007 | No Comments25-Feb-2007 Census of Marine Life Deep-sea species at unusually shallow depths on uncapped seabed (photo (c) Julian Gutt, AWI) Once roofed by ice for millennia, a 10,000 square km portion... -
Potential new bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
Posted on February 18, 2007 | No CommentsRockefeller University / University of Guelph 18-Feb-2007 Scientists complete DNA portrait of US, Canadian bird species, Guyanese bats At unprecedented levels of difficulty involving highly biodiverse and continent-sized landscapes, scientists... -
Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census; Frontiers of Marine Science Stretched by Census experts
Posted on December 10, 2006 | No Comments10-Dec-2006 Census of Marine Life A host of record-breaking discoveries and revelations that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge were achieved by the Census of Marine Life in 2006,... -
End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
Posted on November 13, 2006 | No Comments13-Nov-2006 University of Helsinki / Rockefeller University, New York ‘Growing stock’ expanding in most forested nations, even with modest prosperity An increasing number of countries and regions are transitioning from... -
Ocean microbe census discovers diverse world of rare bacteria
Posted on July 31, 2006 | No Comments31 July 2006 Census of Marine Life A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the deep-sea raises fundamental new questions about microbial life and evolution... -
‘Fish with chips’ reporting from ocean among highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
Posted on December 14, 2005 | No Comments14 Dec 05 Census of Marine Life Discoveries and news in 2005 from the global Census of Marine Life Coastal Fish Tracking, Using Implanted Chips, Becoming Continental Project; 1,800+ Sharks,... -
Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history
Posted on October 23, 2005 | No Comments23 Oct 05 Census of Marine Life Seafood prices collected from U.S. restaurant menus dating to the 1850s will help plot the shifting harvest of marine species, according to a... -
Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
Posted on July 5, 2005 | No Comments29 Jul 05 Census of Marine Life A historic expedition of Census of Marine Life explorers to the planet’s most northern reaches has revealed a surprising density and diversity of... -
First ever estimate of cod fishery in 1850s reveals 96% decline on Scotian Shelf
Posted on March 1, 2005 | No Comments1-Mar-2005 Census of Marine Life Once a dominant species, the volume of cod on the Scotian Shelf has plunged 96% since the 1850s, according to a landmark research to be... -
Census of Marine Life – Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records
Posted on November 23, 2004 | No Comments23 Nov 04 Census of Marine Life Even in Europe and the best studied seas, the rapid ongoing discovery of new marine species shows no end in sight, according to... -
Two-month study of life in mid-Atlantic yields trove of species, new insights & questions
Posted on August 5, 2004 | No Comments05 Aug 04 Census of Marine Life Exploring life in the mid-Atlantic at various depths down to 4 km (2.5 miles), 60 scientists from 13 countries on a two-month expedition... -
Melting ice cap gives urgency to new Census of Marine Life project in Arctic Ocean
Posted on June 24, 2004 | No Comments24 Jun 04 Census of Marine Life A new ‘Census of Marine Life’ project based in Alaska with global partners seeks to find lifeforms in the world’s oldest seawater. Full... -
How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
Posted on October 23, 2003 | No Comments23 Oct 03 Census of Marine Life An estimated 5,000 previously unknown ocean fish species and hundreds of thousands of other marine life forms are yet to be discovered, according...