Warming May Be Hurting Gray Whales' Recovery
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As many as 118,000 gray whales roamed the Pacific before humans decimated the population through hunting, and human-induced climate change may now be depriving those that remain of the food they need, according to a study released yesterday.
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Global warming could cut a swathe through the planet's species over the coming centuries, warns a study released Wednesday that shows a link between rising temperatures and mass extinctions reaching back half a billion years.
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A changing climate is forcing some of Britain's less heralded marine lifeforms to move, research shows.
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North Pacific right whales may not be going extinct after all. Scientists have found twice as many right whales in the Bering Sea as previously spotted, giving them hope the rare and endangered whales can be saved.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska Â Frustrated by a lack of regulations limiting global warming, a conservation group wants ribbon seals listed as threatened or endangered because their habitat Â sea ice Â is disappearing amid climate change.
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Colder water from the winter months contributed to the deaths of more than 25 dolphins that washed ashore on the Texas coast over the last two weeks, a rescue group said.
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The tiny marine plants that make up the foundation of the food chain are directly affected by warming oceans, a recent study found.
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Global warming could lead to a big chill in the North Atlantic, at least if history is anything to go by, researchers reported on Friday.
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Nov. 30, 2004 - Rescuers succeeded Tuesday in saving most of the whales stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand in the past days as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of the increased beachings.
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Corals stressed by warming conditions may benefit from the passage of a hurricane &#151; as long as it doesn't slam right into them. Bleaching of corals has been a growing problem in recent years with the loss of algae or reduction of pigment in the living corals that occurs when they are stressed by warming water.
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Climate change could be disastrous for some animals, but male grey seals are probably not complaining -- it has improved their sex lives.
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A decade of satellite surveys of the oceans has revealed that warmer years cause a decline in phytoplankton, the vast clouds of tiny drifting plants that are a fundamental component of marine life.
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The Arctic is being hit by melting ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, a US report on the impact of global warming says.
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A key food source for Antarctic seals, whales and penguins has declined about 80 percent since the 1970s in ocean waters near the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers report.
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Global warming over the coming century  could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the  dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all  species, a scientist said on Thursday.
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Major shifts in the British marine environment are being partially driven by climate change, according to a new report.
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Global warming could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century by eroding the sea ice that sustains them, according to the most comprehensive international assessment ever done of Arctic climate change.