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University of Bristol researchers established in a new study that teenagers who eat a lot of tuna are less likely to develop depression than their peers who do not have this habit. One of the reasons for this may be that the fish contains a lot of vitamin D. Past investigations have established a connection between ... |
19 January 2012
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A number of marine surveys conducted earlier this year revealed a total of 15 new species living in the ocean. Some of these creatures are remarkable in and of themselves, whereas others are elusive species, or ones thought to have disappeared long ago.
The surveys were conducted in waters around Scotland, and cove... |
29 December 2011
04:51 GMT |
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There is nothing better than a giant project involving renewables that, apart from providing a green source of energy, is restoring the balance of endangered species.
A new video, launched by the Environment Agency, reveals that the largest hydropower scheme in the south east of England meant to supply the Windsor C... |
28 December 2011
09:09 GMT |
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University of Oregon professor of geological sciences Gregory J. Retallack says that the conclusions of his latest studies on how fish began turning into tetrapods (four-legged animals) indicate a picture different from commonly-accepted theories on how life moved out of the water.
The idea that most evolutionary b... |
28 December 2011
02:54 GMT |
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One-third of the maximum amount of food available historically needs to be present in an ecosystem housing seabirds at all times, in order for the animals to be able to survive. If supplies drop below this level, then there's a large chance that a large proportion of seabird populations will decline sharply.
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23 December 2011
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The Queen has decided to go green, while relying on the benefits provided by a hydroelectric project worth £1.7 million (€2.03million/$2.65 million), expected to supply the Windsor Castle as well as 300 homes with clean green energy.
It seems that this initiative was announced years ago, but funding was ... |
20 December 2011
06:27 GMT |
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These days gastronomy goes hand in hand with technology to make sure that people who enjoy tasty treats in high-profile restaurants are not exposed to any threats. The new app was launched by Sierra Club, in an attempt to make sure that sushi ingredients won't follow the already known dangerous trajectory: fr... |
13 December 2011
10:29 GMT |
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If you think that an ancient 26'' wooden TV set even your grandparents would be ashamed of can't be exploited further, you are definitely wrong and have to check out Michael Khor's masterpiece.
He has transformed an old CRT TV into an amazing new home for his fish. The recycled fish tank is anyt... |
8 December 2011
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A new study issued by the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada indicates farmed fish production aiming to be sustainable and “eco-friendly” is in fact worse than its traditional competitor, in terms of ecological footprint.
After analyzing several kinds of “eco-labels,” the lea... |
7 December 2011
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An oil spill has a devastating impact on marine population even after the clean-up operations are over. This is the result of a project developed for two years, in which experts tried to evaluate the total damage caused by accidental marine pollution.
In their study, scientists focused on the effects of various typ... |
2 December 2011
09:17 GMT |
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Anecdotal wisdom has been proposing that eating fish helps protect the body by providing it with vitamins and other healthy elements. Now, a scientific research demonstrates that people who eat more baked or broiled fish are at a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
This investigation was able to deter... |
1 December 2011
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Investigators at the Louisiana State University (LSU), led by scientists Fernando Galvez and Andrew Whitehead, report in a new study that the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill which affected the Gulf of Mexico had drastic consequences for fish populations and species living in the area.
Shortly after the spill ... |
27 September 2011
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Researchers at the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford and the Leiden University, all in the United Kingdom, recently took an interest in studying the first animals ever to sport jaw bones. Their latest foray into this field is detailed in the top scientific journal Nature. Jawed animals first appear... |
7 July 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that fish and mammals use their tongues in entirely different ways when chewing. This is what primarily underlies the differences between the two types of creatures. Researchers at the Brown University say that fish exhibit a preference t... |
28 June 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Understanding how the historical basis was set for the current biodiversity is an important part of understanding our own origins as a species. Thanks to a new study, we now have a better grasp of the things that shaped our planet's species, their interactions, and their chances for survival.The research focused... |
3 May 2011
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An average person would find it very difficult to focus on a given task if someone was shouting loudly in their ear, or if a colleague at the workplace had a stereo on at full volume. In a new study, it was found that fish have the same problem too, when subjected to unusual noise. They cannot shake off the effects o... |
1 March 2011
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Officials with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are saluting the release of the latest report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the state of the world's oceans, lakes and rivers. These areas are responsible for providing food for a huge portion of the global population, and so the document also h... |
31 January 2011
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Nearly one in four people living in Montreal, Canada, take some kind of anti-depressant, and a new research discovered that the drugs pass into the waterways and affect fish. The leaders of the study are Dr. Sébastien Sauvé at the University of Montreal's Department of Chemistry and André L... |
22 January 2011
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that unseasonal temperature variations brought on by the El Nino atmospheric pattern is have a tremendous effect on fish populations living in South Pacific coral reefs. The conclusion belongs to an international team of biologists, that spent more then fou... |
1 December 2010
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Over the past ten years or so, a researcher at the University of Bristol has kept a close ear on the sounds that are produced naturally in and around coral reefs, by fish, urchins and the corals themselves. These noises can be used as indicators of how healthy the reefs are as a whole.The expert has been focusing his... |
29 November 2010
06:43 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that one of the most widely used indicators for assessing the health of fisheries around the world is misleading, and largely inaccurate. The study learned that using the average catch trophic level as an indicator for fish population health levels yields erroneous re... |
18 November 2010
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Researchers in the United States have recently developed a new and complex computational model to account for the way fish swim, which could lead to innovation in the design of future robots and even medical prosthetic devices. The team behind the work, based at the University of Maryland and at the Tulane University... |
19 October 2010
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Between January and June of each year, bluefin tuna populations swim in the Gulf of Mexico to breed. This year, they were caught unprepared by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and decimated. Investigators say that the oil spill, which began in late April, surprised the tuna as they were spawning in the waters of the G... |
18 October 2010
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Paradoxically, fish that live near coal-fired power plants have lower levels of mercury than fish that live further away, concluded a new study carried out by North Carolina State University.Normally, coal-fired power plants are the main source of mercury air pollution on a global scale, but this new discovery seems ... |
6 October 2010
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Researchers have discovered that a type of religious ritual taking place in Mexico is having a direct effect on the fish population on which it is applied. In the southern parts of the country, indigenous populations believe, as they did for centuries, that they must ask the gods for sufficient amounts of rain throug... |
13 September 2010
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Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today that they have reopened some 5,130 square miles of Gulf water to commercial and leisure fishing.The area includes the far eastern coast of Louisiana, all the way through Mississippi, Alabama, and the western Florida panhandle. ... |
3 September 2010
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Scientists have always wondered how do fish do to swim in the Arctic and the antarctic without freezing to death, and some 50 years ago, special frost proteins were found in the blood of these fish.It was proven that these anti-freeze proteins worked even better than any household antifreeze, but no one could explain... |
26 August 2010
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More than 5,144 square miles of water from the Gulf of Mexico have been opened for fishing. The area was part of the region affected by the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but now officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say that fish here is safe to eat.The decision to allow commercial and... |
11 August 2010
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A study carried out at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has discovered the function of one of the most ancient antibodies in the animal reign, the immunoglobulin that ensures mucosal immunity.This antibody is very important in the guts of fish and it will help to better understand the ... |
10 August 2010
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In additional to actual pollution, noise pollution is one of the main factors triggering biodiversity loss in the world's oceans. Over the past couple of decades, the amount of noises that permeate the global waters has increased several times over, and marine animals that rely on sounds for communications and o... |
4 August 2010
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Canadian researchers analyzed the water and fish from two rivers in the South Saskatchewan River Basin: The Red Deer and Oldman rivers, in southern Alberta. The University of Calgary scientists published their results in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.The water from the two rivers was tested for m... |
30 July 2010
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Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that they have just allowed for the reopening of no less than 16,000 square miles of formerly-closed fishing zones in the Gulf of Mexico. The areas were locked out of public and commercial use because there was a real danger that fish... |
5 June 2010
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Whenever people decide to settle in an area, they begin modifying the environment so that it best suits them. These urban developments cause massive damage to native species of fish and aquatic insects, a new investigation has uncovered. The researchers behind it say that the old idea, according to which the early st... |
4 June 2010
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces that it has just expanded the area of the Gulf of Mexico that is forbidden for fishermen. Officials at the agency say in a statement that the decision was taken because the situation is spiraling out of control, as oil slicks move in all directio... |
2 June 2010
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Scientists discovered some time ago that our ancient ancestors experienced a surge in brain capacity and cognitive abilities millions of years ago, but they had very little information about other things going on at the same time. Now, new excavations conducted in Kenya, near Lake Turkana, evidenced data on the diets... |
2 June 2010
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Experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that they have extended the area where fishing is currently forbidden in the Gulf of Mexico. With the oil slick caused by the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig accident on April 20, fishing has now become unsafe in the region, authorities ... |
26 May 2010
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In a new scientific investigation, researchers managed to establish the fact that the evolutionary starting point for all modern vertebrates was set some 360 million years ago. The scientists say that, at that time, a massive extinction of fish species took place, paving the way for the emergence of the first vertebr... |
18 May 2010
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More than 50 years ago, a team of American scientists made a remarkable discovery. They were able to prove the existence of a peculiar species of fish that had two main traits to distinguish it from other similar creatures. First of all, it only lived underground, and second of all, it had no eyes. A single specimen ... |
12 May 2010
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Cichlid fish males are not exactly cowards. They are very territorial and highly aggressive, and would gladly pick a fight with any other fish that happens to enter their waters. They are also known for the fact that they readily attack their own reflections, posturing and lunging as in a real battle. But scientists ... |
12 May 2010
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For the first time ever, a group of investigators managed to produce conclusive scientific evidence that certain species of seaweeds are capable of killing corals just by touching them. Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) made the discovery in a series of experiments that they ran on th... |
11 May 2010
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According to a recent scientific investigation, it would appear that mountaintop mining exploitations, which basically blow the top off mountains in search for precious chemicals, cause tremendous damage on the environment. In addition, they also pose considerable health risks to the populations living in their immed... |
27 February 2010
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Over the course of our evolution, the human brain has become very efficient at telling individuals apart from each other. We rely on facial proportions, hair styles, eyebrow length and other such factors for identifying each of the people we regularly come in contact with as individuals, but our advanced abilities ar... |
26 February 2010
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Scientists announce the discovery of an impressive new fossil in the United States. Experts digging at a site in Kansas have unearthed a number of fragments belonging to a huge aquatic predator, including scales, teeth, and a very large jawbone. This gave them an idea as to the size of the marine creature, most likel... |
24 February 2010
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The Gulf of California was once one of the most varied and diverse aquatic regions in the entire world, featuring a wide array of species living together in balance. But that was some time ago. At this point, the destructive fishing practice and other human activities are causing untold damage on the collection of sp... |
22 February 2010
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Many years after the initial fossils were discovered, paleontologists finally managed to learn that the spinosaur was a giant lizard that really loved water. In fact, it loved it so much that it spent most of its life living and hunting in shallow streams or along shorelines. This in turn allowed it to remain relati... |
20 February 2010
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The globally declining state of penguin populations worldwide has motivated many biologists and other scientists to investigate possible solutions to this crisis that could inform policymakers. French experts at the Centre d'ecologie fonctionnelle et evolutive, working together with colleagues from the Universit... |
11 February 2010
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In a set of observations that may very well be unprecedented, researchers have finally managed to secure some video footage of the giant oarfish in its natural element, as the monster fish was swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. Biologists know of no other occasion on which the animal – which is possibly the larges... |
10 February 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Biologists have recently made a significant discovery, when they have found that a certain species of snakes is capable of using small tentacles on its snout to sense its prey and its surroundings. The investigators believe that the creature may be using these structures to make more sense of its environment when ins... |
3 February 2010
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Scientists have recently developed a new method of analyzing our ancestry, by studying fossils more than 500 million years old. This is apparently facilitated by studying modern, decomposing fish. It would seem that the rotting creatures help paleontologists gain new insight into how creatures on our part of the evol... |
1 February 2010
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Scientists at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine have been recently able to determine that Lake Superior is contaminated with a very dangerous viral agent, called the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus, or VHSV. While relatively safe for humans – despite being from the same class of pathogens... |
29 January 2010
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