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New research has shown a dramatic increase in shipping in the North East Atlantic. Scientists now warn that more monitoring in the area is required to help protect sea life on the at-risk register.

‘Beyond extreme’ ocean heat wave in North Atlantic is worst in 170 years The exceptionally warm waters could pose a deadly threat to marine life and impact summer weather in the U.K. and ...

Parts of the Pacific and North Atlantic have been anywhere from 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to 5 degrees C (9 degrees F) warmer than average at times, conditions that have not been ...

A leading marine biologist is aiming to establish a North Atlantic Sea Turtle hospital in Ireland after another disorientated loggerhead turtle washed up in Kerry in recent days ...

Skeleton shrimp get their name from their appearance: they have a threadlike body — approximately 1/2 to 3/4 inches long — which allows them to disappear amongst seaweed and other small sea life.

Waves are generally higher in the North Atlantic or off the coast of Iceland, she said. Other rougher seas can be found south of South Africa and south of Australia. Waves in the North Sea can be ...

But our understanding of the deep-sea trematode’s life cycle ends with the zoarcid. Finding an adult worm in a fish tells us nothing about the first two animals it used as hosts.

Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination that’s infamous as a home for trash: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ocean ...