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How healthy the Baltic Sea and its fish are
Ecotoxicologist Randel Kreitsberg writes about the health of the Baltic Sea and its fish (that by the way, also get cancer). Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Baltic Sea, cancer, DDT, fish, health, pollution, toxicology, toxins
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Living on the Edge: Landlocked Seals in a Changing Climate
Even when there’s enough food, continuously warmer winters may make the ringed seal extinct. Such is the gloomy conclusion made by Mart Jüssi, a seal biologist at the University of Tartu, in his freshly defended doctoral thesis. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, climate change, ecology, ice, land-locked grey seal, PhD, PhD thesis, ringed seal, seal
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Who Dares Say Marine Life in the Baltic Sea is Grey?
The hidden colours of the Baltic underwater seascapes are revealed in the following selection of images captured by Carlos Minguell, the photographer of Oceana, in spring 2011. Continue reading