The ten-year study period captured 1,019,159 person-dives and 102 incidents occurring in conjunction with these exposures. Ultimately, 33 of the incidents were classified as DCI, 25 with clear symptoms and eight with ambiguous symptoms. Recompression therapy was reported to be successful in 28 ...
Overfishing in many of the locations in which the Queen conch is found has forced all but three conch-producing countries to ban fishing to protect populations, which it is predicted will not recover for decades. This means fewer conch pearls are coming to market. At one time, Queen conches...
Bringing Out the Best in Our Salmon Like most species, Atlantic salmon are most vulnerable early on in life. Our scientists discovered, through a one-time gene modification, they could enhance the fish's naturally occurring characteristics, helping them not only survive but thrive. We used modern...
and higher temperatures boost the odds of a marine heat wave occurring and persisting.Human warming of the planetis likely to blame. As researchersconcluded in a recent studyon marine heat waves in this region, "[temperature] forcing by elevated greenhouse gases levels has virtually certainly cause...
With species like the Barbary lion and western black rhino featuring in the lengthy list of animals that have become extinct in the last 100 years, it is no longer plausible to turn a blind eye to the alarming rate at which extinctions are occurring of l