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Is it OK to Pee in the Ocean?
Peeing in the ocean: Many have done it, but few admit to it. Fortunately for beachgoers everywhere, our latest episode of Reactions explains why, from an environmental perspective, it is absolutely OK to pee in the ocean.
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Scientists raised these fish to walk on land
Raising fish on land seems like the sort of idea you’d get while recovering from general anesthesia. But for three McGill University researchers, it made perfect sense.
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“We can’t strain the entire ocean”: The horrifying truth about where our plastic ends up
Angela Sun tells Salon about her frightening new documentary and reports from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch VIDEO
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551 Feet Under the Sea: What It’s Like to Ride in a Deep-Sea Sub
I heard a screwing noise as the hatch of our sub was sealed. A bright orange hose from topside that had been inserted into the sub to blow fresh air as we loaded had been removed, and the interior felt warm and damp and close. All was still.
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Ocean Health Gets "D" Grade in New Global Index
Scientists assigned a grade for global ocean health on Tuesday, giving the world's waters a "D" on an annual oceans report card, citing overfishing, pollution, climate change, and lack of protections as key problems.
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Striking Portraits Bring the Bizarre Beauty of Marine Invertebrates to Life
For a portrait photographer, Susan Middleton has an unusual studio. It’s mobile, for one thing, and it requires the subject to be confined in a small glass box. But the results are gorgeous.
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Killer Whales Learn How to Speak Dolphin
Orcas that have been socialized with dolphins mimic the sounds they make.
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Scientists Discover Huge ‘Bathtub Ring’ Of Oil On Sea Floor From BP Spill
Scientists have discovered yet another unforeseen effect of BP's historic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Rare Sea Monster Caught on Film
The black seadevil is seldom seen, since it lives thousands of feet below the surface.
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Good job, humans: The oceans now contain 5 trillion pieces of floating plastic
A major new study of the world's oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world. With a global population of about 7.2 billion, that's nearly 700 pieces per person.
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Million-year old molluscs Wallerconcha sarae may be ancient survivors
IT’S spent more than a million years, lurking in the mud beneath the Arctic Ocean. Now it’s one of science’s newest species. While it doesn’t look special, the ancient creature — an early variety of bivalve mollusc — represents both a previously unknown genus (evolutionary branch) and new species (group of organisms). It’s believed this particular mollusc evolved in a world very different to now — more than a million years ago.
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Reef fish smell like coral as they seek to evade predators
he animal kingdom is full of incredible examples of camouflage, with animals resembling objects found in their environment such as sticks or leaves, or displaying colour patterns that permit them to blend into their surroundings to hide from predators or prey. Many animals interact with the world using other senses, such as smell. Yet most of our understanding of animal camouflage is based on visual mechanisms, probably due to our own reliance on sight.
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Under the microscope: Just a splash of seawater
Scoop up a bucket of seawater (or swallow a mouthful) and this is what you get: a bizarre menagerie of plants and animals, some of them known to us, others a complete mystery. This extraordinary photograph shows a random splash of seawater, magnified 25 times. The Earth's open seas are home to countless tiny animals and plants that are known collectively as plankton.
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Sea ghost breaks record for deepest living fish
A newly-discovered species with a bizarre body has been spotted deeper down than any other living fish.
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Earth's Deep Oil Reserves Are Teeming With Ancient Life
Earth’s “deep biosphere”—the vast, subterranean world that’s home to as many single-celled organisms as our planet’s surface—has a rep for being a stark and lonely place. But a new study finds that deep oil reservoirs, miles beneath the ocean floor, are anything but solitary. Here, bacteria are social critters that have been swapping genetic material back and forth for eons.
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Underwater astonishments
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean. This short talk celebrates the pioneering work of ocean explorers like Edith Widder and Roger Hanlon.
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Unexpected Life Found In The Ocean's Deepest Trench
The Mariana Trench cuts a 1,500-mile incision in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near the island of Guam. That's where an international team of scientists has just spent over a month sending probes down to the deepest place on Earth. The scientists were stunned by the amount of life they found there, including a fish species inhabiting the deepest depths.
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Bryde's Whale
Everyone's gotta eat.
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Health of oceans 'declining fast'
The health of the world’s oceans is deteriorating even faster than had previously been thought, a report says. A review from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), warns that the oceans are facing multiple threats. They are being heated by climate change, turned slowly less alkaline by absorbing CO2, and suffering from overfishing and pollution. The report warns that dead zones formed by fertiliser run-off are a problem.
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How a DVD Case Killed a Whale
The growing mass of plastic sea trash can have fatal consequences for dolphins, whales, and other marine life.
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