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Articles on conservation, marine life, exploration, ocean plastics, sustainability, climate change, plastic pollution and more. Oceanographic is a bi-monthly magazine with a focus on ocean conservation, exploration and adventure.
Oceanographic Magazine
2d ago
The Mystery Mollusc, the Divine Dragon Glistenworm, and the John Hooper’s Carnivorous Sponge; yes it may read like a science-fiction Top Trumps but these are three of what are officially recognised as the ‘most remarkable’ new marine species named in 2024.
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Oceanographic Magazine
2d ago
An iceberg the size of Chicago has just broken free of an Antarctic ice sheet, leaving an expanse of seabed to be studied by science... and it turns out, it's thronging with marine life - and even potential new species - that's been there for centuries.
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Oceanographic Magazine
2d ago
No one is certain where the octopus was headed when it decided to hitch a ride; but given that its mode of transport was the mako shark - famously the speediest shark in the ocean - we call rest assured it was about to get there in record time.
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Oceanographic Magazine
3d ago
Scientists in Florida have broken new ground in their understanding of harmful algal blooms known as 'red tide' by identifying the viruses - one of them a new viral species - associated with the organism that causes them to occur.
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Oceanographic Magazine
3d ago
The UK government has signed a £5 million fishing deal with the Faroe Islands; one that campaigners have decried for helping to fund the 'barbaric and inhumane' dolphin hunts led by the boats bringing "blood-stained" fish to the UK's supermarkets.
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Oceanographic Magazine
3d ago
On the fourth anniversary of the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project and the introduction of the Sussex Nearshore Trawling Byelaw, researchers and locals are celebrating the encouraging signs of local marine life and seabed ecosystems now on the mend.
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Oceanographic Magazine
4d ago
Sardines in the Mediterranean struggling for a decent bite of shrinking plankton are accidentally ingesting more and more microplastics and microfibres, scientists have found. And the root cause of all their problems? Well, it's climate change - of course.
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Oceanographic Magazine
4d ago
North Atlantic right whales are a species plighted by threats, one of the greatest being ship strikes. Given their population is estimated at just 372 individuals, the arrival of right whale mothers and their calves in Cape Cod Bay is an encouraging event.
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Oceanographic Magazine
4d ago
The hard-fought deal will see fishing restrictions in put in place across six key breeding colonies for African penguins off the South Africa coast for a period of ten years, marking a significant first step in reversing the fortunes of a species on the brink of extinction.
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Oceanographic Magazine
5d ago
A groundbreaking study has found sea snails are evolving thicker shells to fend off invasive predators, but are losing their 'on-demand defence mechanism' - their plasticity - as a result... and that could prove a hinderance to their sex lives.
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