Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems
...nt-poor surface waters of the ocean, causing algal blooms and potentially contaminating waters that support Papua New Guinea’s commercial fishing industry, as well as local subsistence fishers. Depending on ocean currents, these nutrients could drift widely, disrupting the food chain and potentially damagin...Scientists seek useful traits in wild cottons
...) at the base of each boll a few days after flower blooms open. Determining whether this trait is dominant, co-dominant or recessive and finding its DNA location could help breeders develop upland cottons that require less lint cleaning ?producing cleaner fiber with less ginning costs, Gannaway said...Marine phytoplankton changes form to protect itself from different predators
...ions for global climate change because Phaeocystis blooms play a key role in the carbon cycle of cold oceans, accounting for up to 85 percent of local productivity during some time periods. This complex defensive behavior also shows how environmental factors can affect even simple organisms, Hay noted. ...