This course examines the biology and ecology of marine ecosystems, emphasizing those occurring in tropical regions such as coral reefs. The course also covers how these ecosystems are changing and the ...

The El Niño phenomenon in the South Atlantic and Benguela current, which flows along the west coast of southern Africa, have ...

Mangroves are trees or shrubs that grow along coastlines in tropical regions ... The carbon that is captured by our ocean and coastal ecosystems is known as blue carbon. Mangroves can store ...

“That tells us that what we have are thriving, diverse, and well-established ecosystems under the ice shelf,” says Patricia Esquete, a marine ecologist at the University of Aveiro, Portugal ...

The four billion tons of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory When the ice shelf calved, an international team of researchers was studying marine ice ecosystems aboard Falkor (Too), an oceanographic research vessel belonging to ...

Tackling pollution through stricter waste management, corporate responsibility, and community-driven conservation efforts is vital to preserving marine ecosystems in archipelagic nations like the ...

And how can human-centered development work be done in such a way that the natural ecosystem to which humans belong is not degraded? Tropical ecosystems contain the highest concentration of Earth’s ...