Marine environment

Photo: Naja Bertolt Jensen, Unsplash

When marine animals become plastic distributors

Marine animals eat microplastic particles and excrete them in their feces, endangering the marine environment.
Gal Vared holds a rope on which a soft coral grows in the coral reef at a depth of 15 meters in front of the Katsa beach (photograph: Dr. Ronan Lieberman)

Encouraging news: plastic pollution in the Gulf of Eilat is low compared to other coral reefs in the world

The research team: "We must act quickly to continue to protect our coral reefs" * The article is dedicated to the memory of Tal Ilon, a man of the sea, commander of the Kfar Gaza alert squad who was murdered on the 7
A plastic bag at sea. Source: Ben Mierement, NOAA NOS (ret.

Something small and bad

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The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. is in danger of bleaching. Photo: yanguang lan.

Whitens and disappears

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algae. It still needs to be proven that platinum protects the human skin even outside the sterile laboratory. Photograph: Gugulethu Mhlanga.

Is the sunscreen of the future hiding in algae?

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The mud crab. Source: Anirnoy, Wikimedia Commons.

On crustaceans in the dark and sensing mechanism

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A submarine in the waters of the Haifa port. Source: Haifa University.

The yellow submarine of Haifa University

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Caesar fish of the generation. Not at all similar to the tiny minnow that was at the beginning of the journey. Photo: zsispeo.

A genetic map of the reef fish in the Gulf of Eilat

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A giant oyster of the genus Tridacna gigas, in the Maldives. Photography: Malcolm Browne.

Biofuel inspired by the blue oyster

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The Black Sea urchin is one of the most common of the Red Sea urchins, and there we all already know to beware of it. Photo: Quartl, Wikimedia.

Sea urchins from Eilat invade the Mediterranean Sea

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Barracuda fish. Photo: Alexander Vasenin, Wikimedia.

Do the fish shrink?

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The sewage flows into the sea in Haifa in 2015. Photo: Dr. Eil Rahab.

When the sewer and the sea meet

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The Ribbonfish. Source: NOAA.

Bright fish skin is the inspiration for nanometer reflectors

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The research revealed unusually rich and varied sponge gardens for the Israeli coast. Photo: Part of a study in Prof. Micha Ilan's laboratory at Tel Aviv University.

The secret of the sponge gardens

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2. Nocturnal traffic jams. Courtesy photo: Associate Professor Kelly Sutherland, University of Oregon.

The evolutionary logic behind the movement of colonies of the salpa marine creature

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squid. Photography: Richard.

The DNA secrets of the squid

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A three-spined prickly pear. Photography: Jack Wolf.

Animals also have a personality - which tends to blur in a group

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Foraminifera. Source: Courtesy of Ben Gurion University.

Animals that create green skeletons are able to grow in extreme temperatures

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wandering thread. Source: Technion spokesmen.

Poisoned darts underwater: researchers decipher the sting mechanism of the jellyfish

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The circles in the sand made by the Torquigener fish. Photo: Yoji Okata, from the article Role of Huge Geometric Circular Structures in the Reproduction of a Marine Pufferfish, 2013.

Circles in the sand - how a small fish creates great art

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The bees of the sea

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Tsimada - living marine creatures that stick to ships. Photography: Yossi Cohen

Prevention of underwater biological coating on vessels inspired by marine vessels (part 1)

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Sea snails have mutual sex (each is both male and female). Photo: Ayami Sakizawa, Osaka University

Nudibranch: A species of androgynous sea snail sheds its penis after each mating but also regrows it

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The pteropod sea snail, photo: NOAA

The damage of carbon dioxide and warming, the story of four rivers and one shell

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A marine creature in an aquarium in Barcelona. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

At least a third of the marine species have not been described so far

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The inclusion of divers in the research was an important element in sampling water from the source of the spring to calculate the flow rate, in understanding the structure of the flow and the nature of the source of the spring.

Living springs were discovered in the Dead Sea

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The white moth Biston betularia that became extinct due to the soot that covered the trees during the industrial revolution and was replaced by a black moth. From Wikipedia

A few words for the skeptics

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Some countries have met the challenge by pumping from natural sources of fresh water.

How can water desalination methods be improved?

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Dr. Erica Bruce. Photo: Baylor University

A common flame retardant is harmful to marine life

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A diver at the bottom of the Kona Blue Water Farms fish farm in Hawaii

The Blue Food Revolution / Sarah Simpson

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Seaweed off the coast of Florida. Photo: from Wikipedia

Seaweed in extinction

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Galapagos tortoises are the largest land tortoises in the world. In fact, the islands are named after the turtles, whose armor reminded the Spanish sailors of the shape of a saddle called Galapagos. Photo: Amir Gur (c)

Islands in the Humboldt Stream

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The Storflaket area in Sweden, a place where the frost is melting. Photo: from Wikipedia

Warming, its effects and results

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Jellyfish of the species Aequorea_victoria. From Wikipedia

The Technion researchers discovered that the movement of shrimps and jellyfish contributes a lot to the sea turbulence

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Fisherman - love fish? From Wikimedia Commons

The shutdown of fishing in the Sea of ​​Galilee is underway

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The Egyptian tortoise

Conservation of the Mediterranean basin

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Global salinity and heat cycle

Is Europe freezing?

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Rain forests in Tana - Ecuador

Environmental updates

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The administration of the university against the background of the Nautilus (right): Vice President for Foreign Relations and Resource Development Amos Geber, incoming Rector Prof. David Farji, Head of the School of Marine Sciences Prof. Zvi Ben-Abraham, President of the University Prof. Aharon Ben-Zev, Rector of the University Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi

The "Nautilus" sailed from the port of Haifa to explore the seabed

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Who said there are no aliens? Get Dumbo Octopus!

About 100 thousand people have already visited the DEEP exhibition

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The nibatans live mainly on the shelves of the shallow oceans, and spend a considerable part of their lives on sea ice waiting for their favorite food, oyster molluscs on the bottom. From the Great Migration series of the National Geographic Channel

Move in millions and survive as one

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Research: What causes the growth of toxic algae in the waters of the Kinneret and the threat to water quality in Israel

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"A knight strikes a bishop" SG Gould's version (1994) of the debate with Wilberforce

Chapters in the history of the theory of evolution about the ideas and those who conceived them - Chapter 13 - Part II

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Do sea-floor bacteria make their own electric grids? Credit: Nils Risgaard-Petersen

Do sea-floor bacteria produce their own electric grids?

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Minke whale (endangered) hunted in Iceland. Source - Greenpeace

whale hunter

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wrecked ship

toxic cargoes

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Who said there are no aliens? Get Dumbo Octopus!

Straight from Paris and Hong Kong and at the same time as Natural History in London "Deep"

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A critically endangered white-cheeked gibbon. From Vakimedia

A measure of life

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Currents in the oceans

currents in the ocean

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Orca whales - mother and cub

Whales against DTP

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