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Booming Seaweed Farming Exposes Producers and Environment to Risks, Experts Warn
The booming, multi-billion dollar seaweed farming industry could easily and needlessly drop into expensive pitfalls experienced previously in both agriculture and fish farming.
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As sea ice around Antarctica melts, the Southern Ocean is becoming fresher
For decades, scientists have puzzled over why the southernmost waters in the world were becoming less salty, and now it looks like we might have an answer.
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Solar powered pipe desalinates seawater into drinkable fluid.
For the 2016 land art generator initiative, Khalili engineers propose a solar powered pipe to desalinate seawater into drinkable fluid.
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Whale Shark Seeks Help - Video
Australian fisherman saves a whale shark from an almost certain death in an act of intelligence and kindness Whale shark asks fishermen for help
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Coming Weeks to Yield Several Atlantic Tropical Storms, Hurricanes as Busy Season Continues
Following a tropical storm threat in the Bahamas and Florida into this weekend, an uptick in tropical systems will continue for the next six to eight weeks.
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Surface Water Shifting Around the Earth
Scientists have used satellite images to study how the water on the Earth's surface has changed over the last 30 years.
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Without a longer-term view, the Paris Agreement will lock in warming for centuries
If we accept that 2 degrees warming is dangerous this century, we have to accept it is dangerous beyond.
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Tropical Storm Gaston Strengthening in the Eastern Atlantic; Forecast to Become a Hurricane
Where Gaston is headed and how strong it may become.
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Googly-eyed Stubby Squid
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Invest 98-L Expected to Become a Tropical Depression or Storm in the Eastern Atlantic
A tropical disturbance in the eastern Atlantic Ocean is likely to develop into the Atlantic hurricane season's next tropical depression or storm in the next few days.
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More than 60% of Maldives' coral reefs hit by bleaching
Scientific survey found all reefs had been affected by high sea surface temperatures, with up to 90% of coral colonies bleached in some areas
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Ocean-cleaning sea bins will gobble up plastic waste to recycle
Bins designed to suck up debris floating on the sea are in the final stages of testing, shame they won’t make it to Rio in time to clean up dirty waters at the Olympics. By Alice Klein.
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Meet the nudibranch: Seven reasons these 'naked' gastropods are more than pretty faces
Nudibranchs, a group of soft-bodied and immensely colourful molluscs, are often mistaken for sea slugs. But these gastropods couldn't be more different — or more interesting.
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Reef sharks in French Polynesia rely on annual mass grouper spawning for food
Up to 900 reef sharks survive in one of the most untouched reef environments in the world, researchers have found.
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Evolution favors the bioluminescent
You glow, you win—the power to emit light has evolved a whopping 27 times. By Annalee Newitz. (June 15, 2016)
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The monsters hidden beneath the sea
From the Old Testament to the Loch Ness Monster, strange watery beasts have terrified and inspired artists in equal measure. Alastair Sooke dives in.
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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat
Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas. By Nicola Jones. (May 6, 2016)
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Creepy Giant Spider Crab Aggregation
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Something Strange and Terrible Is Happening to Mussels
Do you enjoy eating mussels? Cool, same. Something, however, is happening to mussels as we know them. And it’s changing them in a pretty horrifying way.
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Coral Reefs Doing Better Than Expected in Many Areas
A new study found "bright spots" where corals are thriving, despite global bleaching events.
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