A new study has revealed butterflyfish are particularly fussy about their food and shelter needs, avoiding corals that have come in contact with seaweed. Conducted by the University of Delaware, the study is the first to critically evaluate how coral-seaweed interactions will impact coral associated reef fishes, a key component of coral reef resilience.
Manitoba has released a plan to preserve the world's largest beluga population while numbers remain abundant. "We have a healthy population, but the environment is changing," said Manitoba Conservation Minister Tom Nevakshonoff. "It's a rare opportunity when you can take something that's not in distress and focus on it now to preserve that rather than doing damage control.
On 17th November 2013 Nicholas Lawrence "Nick" Mevoli III died. He had been attempting to set an American record at the Vertical Blue competition at Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas.
In contrast to what was previously thought rather than seeing a gradual build-up of waves, the rogue wave will come seemingly out of nowhere.
New research from the University of Oxford in collaboration with the University of Western Australia shows that the anecdotal evidence heard from mariners describing "walls of water" coming at them in the open ocean may not be so far from the truth.
