What do mussels do when subjected to warmer water? Shelby Clarke picks up a cluster of mussels from a tank. She is measuring mussel death rates, she explains. Scientists are investigating how mussels will react to future heat waves.
Norwegian and Swedish researchers completely disagree about pike Is pike a useful or harmful species? A new study is sounding the alarm that there are too few predatory fish in the Baltic Sea.
Researchers and the media need to stop crying ‘wolf’ about the Gulf Stream There are many, many things we should worry about when it comes to global warming. But worrying that the Gulf Stream will stop is not one of them, says one Norwegian oceanographer.
Farmed salmon need zinc to avoid getting sick. But zinc in the ocean harms the environment Either farmed fish health or the environment suffers.
Here comes the electric fishing boat The world’s first electrically powered fishing boat will be presented this August in Trondheim, Norway. But more time and development is needed before it can run completely without diesel.
Researchers take tourism to a higher level When research hooks up with the travel business, tourists can expect much more meaningful experiences. This is seen in research on whale safari tourism.
Counting copepod crap A mind-boggling array of tasks forms the underpinning of our understanding of the factors that affect the climate, both now and as the planet warms. Danes aboard the Norwegian research vessel G.O. Sars are adding to this knowledge by counting specks of zooplankton faeces.
Sounding out marine life Scientists aboard the research ship G.O. Sars transmit pulses of sound into the sea to image the biomass below.
Hitchhiking with ocean currents Marine animals living on Arctic ice seem destined for a catastrophe if all the summer ice melts. But a tiny krill can survive by hitchhiking north with ocean currents.
Waking plankton from hibernation They are the motor of the ecosystem in the oceans of the high North. But we don’t know much about where plankton are during the sunless winters or how they waken in spring.
Could take the lead at the bottom Norwegian researchers want to develop new technology and establish observatories in the depths of the Norwegian Sea. Deep Norwegian sea beds are attracting international interest.