Exploring hidden life’s abundance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two miles below the surface of the Sargasso Sea lies a depression in the Earth’s crust filled with sediment and, scientists believe, teeming with life — exotic, microscopic, and very...
View ArticleIn North Atlantic, researchers find a sea of garbage
The North Atlantic Ocean is looking more like a rubbish bin, with plastic and polystyrene flotsom spreading far and wide, according to four French explorers just back from eight months at sea.
View ArticleWill the eel survive its management?
The European eel is on the way to disappearing for good. The species is critically endangered, and there are strong scientific arguments for suspending all fishing. Despite this situation, Swedish eel...
View ArticleSaint Lawrence seaway eels slipping into oblivion
Standing in tall rubber boots in mud smeared with gooey algae, Bruno Ouellet tugs on massive nets strewn across the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, hoping to snag just a few eels.
View ArticleBy using big brother style tracking technology, scientists have now resolved...
Nobody knows the underlying biological mechanisms of the European eels migration. Thanks to an EU-funded research project called eeliad, now about toreach completion, biologists have revealed some of...
View ArticleEel migration study reveals porbeagle shark predation in the Gulf of St....
A tagging study has revealed that porbeagle sharks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence could severely impact the number of migrating American eels in the region.
View ArticleOcean advocates push for Bermuda marine reserve (Update)
Officials from the Pew Charitable Trusts and one of famed underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau's grandsons were in Bermuda on Thursday calling for the creation of the Atlantic's biggest marine reserve.
View ArticleScientists prove oceanographic influences on eel recruitment
Smoked, fried or boiled - the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) has always been a popular fish in Europe. Even though people have consumed it for millennia, the origin of the eel has long been shrouded...
View ArticleThreatened eels disappear in the deep on their way to the Sargasso Sea
When the threatened European eels cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to the Sargasso Sea to spawn, they swim in deep water. But this does not protect them from predators, researchers from the University...
View ArticleEel expedition 2014 has arrived in The Sargasso Sea
The research vessel Dana is currently in the Sargasso Sea on an intensive research expedition to the European eel's spawning grounds subsequently following the eel larvae's drift back to Europe. The...
View ArticleHow do phytoplankton survive a scarcity of a critical nutrient? New study...
Phytoplankton—tiny, photosynthetic organisms—are essential to life on Earth, supplying us with roughly half the oxygen we breathe. Like all other life forms, phytoplankton require the element...
View ArticleBig changes in the Sargasso Sea
Over one thousand miles wide and three thousand miles long, the Sargasso Sea occupies almost two thirds of the North Atlantic Ocean. Within the sea, circling ocean currents accumulate mats of Sargassum...
View ArticleLeatherback sea turtles use mysterious 'compass sense' to migrate hundreds of...
Imagine yourself swimming in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic. The color blue dominates this part of the world - there's nothing to see but a vast expanse of water and sky in all directions. The winds...
View ArticleStinking mats of seaweed piling up on Caribbean beaches
The picture-perfect beaches and turquoise waters that people expect on their visits to the Caribbean are increasingly being fouled by mats of decaying seaweed that attract biting sand fleas and smell...
View Article100-year-old mystery solved: Adult eel observed for the first time in the...
After more than a century of speculation, researchers have finally proved that American eels really do migrate to the Sargasso Sea to reproduce. A team supervised by Professor Julian Dodson of...
View ArticleNew method finds even the tiniest plastics in the sea
Studies have estimated that each year between 4 and 12 million tonnes of plastics end up in the sea, and that the figure is expected to double over the next ten years. But we have only begun to learn...
View ArticleNew research dispels myth that European Eels are trapped in the Mediterranean
Eels have been tracked more than 2000km from lagoons of the Mediterranean Sea and into the Atlantic Ocean, announced an international team of scientists today. This world first discovery brings to an...
View ArticleNewly discovered phytoplankton groups appear to favor warmer oceans
An international research team has discovered two phytoplankton groups - unlike any known species - in climate-sensitive areas around the world. While they appear relatively rare compared to other...
View ArticleWith magnetic map, young eels catch a 'free ride' to Europe
Each year, young European eels make their way from breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to coastal and freshwater habitats from North Africa to Scandinavia, where they live for several years before...
View ArticleResearchers find glass eels use internal compass to find their way home
Scientists are closer to unraveling the long-standing mystery of how tiny glass eel larvae, which begin their lives as hatchlings in the Sargasso Sea, know when and where to "hop off" the Gulf Stream...
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