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The shipping sector is finally on board in the fight against climate change
Until now, the international shipping industry has been excluded from the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol, despite its major contribution to global emissions.
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'Plastic is literally everywhere': the epidemic attacking Australia's oceans
While heading down the Brisbane river, Jim Hinds once pulled aboard a drunken half-naked man just seconds from “going down for the last time”. But on this day, like most other days for Hinds, it’s back to the horribly predictable as he launches his boat into the Nerang river on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Instantly you see it.
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Slow-Motion Ocean: Atlantic's Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years
If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing, greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand
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Arctic sea ice hits second-lowest winter peak on record
Arctic sea ice has experienced its maximum extent for the year, reaching 14.48m square kilometers on 17 March – the second smallest in the 39-year satellite record.
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs more than 43,000 cars and is much larger than we thought
What weighs more than 43,000 cars and is twice the size of Texas? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A new analysis, published Thursday in Scientific Reports, reveals the makeup of this massive collection of floating trash in the North Pacific in a way that’s never been done before. According to the study, the patch weighs 87,000 tons — 16 times more than previous estimates — and contains more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic.
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Plastic in Pacific 'growing rapidly'
A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly, according to a new scientific estimate. Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii. This figure is up to sixteen times higher than previously reported, say international researchers.
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Two of the world's best free divers went to the limit—one came back
Carried away by love—for risk and for each other—two of the world's best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back. By Gary Smith. (June 16, 2003)
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Besides, I’ll be dead: When the Ice Melts
Meehan Crist reviews "The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilised World" by Jeff Goodell.
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The secret on the ocean floor - BBC News
Did a 1970s CIA plot spark a boom in deep sea mining?
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The Loudest Underwater Sound Ever Recorded Has No Scientific Explanation
In 1997, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered an unusual, ultra-low-frequency sound emanating from a point off the southern coast of Chile. It was the loudest unidentified underwater sound ever recorded, detected by hydrophones 5,000 miles apart. It lasted for one minute and was never heard again
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The Greatest Storm in the World 2017, w/≥ 65 ft.+ Waves (20 m)
The Top 10
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Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals
Killer whales able to copy words such as “hello” and “bye bye” as well as sounds from other orcas, study shows
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Heartbroken scientists lament the likely loss of ‘most of the world’s coral reefs’
For decades, marine scientists have been warning of the demise of coral reefs in a warming world. But now, those warning calls have reached a full-scale alarm, leaving researchers at a loss for exactly how best to save the reefs. A study published Thursday in Science by some of the world’s top coral experts amounts to a last rites for the ecosystems often referred to as “the tropical rainforests of the sea.” Scientists surveyed 100 reefs around the world and found that extreme bleaching events that once occurred every 25 or 30 years now happen about every five or six years.
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The Ocean Floor Is Sinking Due To Additional Water Weight From Melting Glaciers
The bottom of the ocean is sinking, warping and deforming because of added water weight from melting glaciers. What does this say about estimated extent of sea level rise?
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Ocean acidification causes changes in mussel shells
A team of scientists led by Florida State University have discovered that the shells of California mussels (Mytilus californianus) are being altered at its most basic structural level. For centuries, the shells have a relatively uniform mineralogical make-up: long, cylindrical calcite crystals arranged in neat vertical rows with crisp, geometric regularity. This, however, appears to be no longer the case for shell specimens collected within the last 15 years.
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Climate Change Has Quadrupled Ocean 'Dead Zones,' Researchers Warn
The size of oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where plants and animals struggle to survive, has increased fourfold around the world, according to a new scientific analysis. The growth of the zones is yet another consequence of global warming — including increasing ocean temperatures — triggered by greenhouse gases and, closer to the coasts, contamination by agricultural runoff and sewage.
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The Top 7 Climate Findings of 2017
Research breakthroughs astound scientists. By Chelsea Harvey.
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'It's shocking, it's horrendous': Ellen MacArthur's fight against plastic
Trophies from her past glories as a competitive yachtswoman are placed discreetly around the 16th-century building on the Isle of Wight, the base of Dame Ellen MacArthur’soperations today. On a blackboard in one of the meeting rooms, the targets of a different passion are spelled out. From uncovering the scale of plastic pollution in the oceans to targeting the textile waste of the fashion industry, MacArthur, who in 2005 broke the solo record for sailing round the world, is dedicating her life to saving it.
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Bali beaches buried in rubbish as Indonesia battles oceans of plastic
It's the monsoon season, which means Bali's iconic beach in Kuta is vomiting rubbish.
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Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again
There’s new evidence that an unprecedented transformation is underway at the North Pole. By Eric Holthaus.
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