Flora & Fauna
Playful whales use seaweed as a hat – or exfoliant
This “kelping” behaviour is more common than we realised.
Category: Oceans
Flora & Fauna
Scientists begin studying bodies of whales from recent WA mass stranding
Hearts broke across Australia last month as we watched efforts to save a pod of almost 100 pilot whales stranded on a Western Australia beach eventually fail.
Nature & Wildlife
High Seas Treaty a safeguard for our oceans
For the first time, oceans beyond national water boundaries have been officially recognised for protection.
Flora & Fauna
Tasmania’s ‘thylacine of the sea’ is on brink of extinction, scientists warn
Numbers of this ancient fish species plunged by almost half in seven years in its last remaining habitat.
Oceans
The Great Southern Reef is in more trouble than the Great Barrier Reef
Marine heatwaves are damaging reef ecosystems around Australia, but while the tropical north has received the lion’s share of the attention to date, we equally need to worry about the temperate south.
Climate
Deep ocean in deep trouble as Antarctic ice melts
Melting ice will affect critical Antarctic ocean currents and threaten fish stocks around the world, new study finds.
Oceans
‘Surprise’ coral found off Sunshine Coast
An unexpected abundance of coral has been found in the waters off Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Climate
The Southern Ocean: An ocean like no other
The Southern Ocean, also called the Antarctic Ocean (or even the Austral ocean), is like no other and best described in superlatives. Here’s everything you need to know about why it’s so bloody important.
Climate
‘An underwater bushfire’: Third mass bleaching event in five years on the Great Barrier Reef confirmed
Southern parts of the reef, spared during the 2016-2017 back-to-back bleaching events, haven’t been so lucky this time around.
Nature & Wildlife
Underwater and underrated: The truth behind fish intelligence
Scientists are finding plenty of clues that fish are more intelligent than anyone imagined.