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U.S. Creates Largest Protected Area in the World, 3X Larger Than California
The Obama administration announced late Wednesday that it is creating the largest marine reserve in the world by expanding an existing monument around seven U.S.-controlled islands and atolls in the central Pacific.
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MH370 search reveals vast underwater world with huge volcanoes and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon
Until now, scientists had better maps of the surface of Mars than of this ocean floor. These images show for the first time a dramatic underwater landscape with mountains higher than Mont Blanc and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon – all 4.5 kilometres below the surface of the Southern Indian Ocean. The discoveries were made as part of the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner, flight MH370, which disappeared six months ago.
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'Thousands' of new ocean mountains
It is not every day you can announce the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth, but that is what a US-European research team has done. What is more, these peaks are all at least 1.5km high. The reason they have gone unrecognised until now is because they are at the bottom of the ocean. Dave Sandwell and colleagues used radar satellites to discern the mountains' presence under water and report their findings in Science Magazine.
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The world is warming faster than we thought
It's worse than we thought. Scientists may have hugely underestimated the extent of global warming because temperature readings from southern hemisphere seas were inaccurate.
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Giant squid attacks Greenpeace submarine
INCREDIBLE footage has emerged of a huge squid taking on a Greenpeace submarine. The video was released by Greenpeace on Vine and shows the squid spinning around and squirting black ink at the sub. The shocked crew pointed a light at the squid to try and scare it away. The squid continued to thrash around and whip the sub with its tentacles.
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‘I rule my own ocean micronation’
Many dream of living in an ocean city, but what is it actually like? Rose Eveleth asks the ruler of Sealand, the unusual settlement off the coast of England.
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Dead zones — where animals suffocate and die — found in the Atlantic’s open waters
Most dead zones are found along the coast and are a result of chemicals triggering algae blooms.
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20-Year-Old Inventor’s Idea For How To Make Ocean Clean Itself Will Be Launched In Japan
Boyan Slat, a 20-year-old innovator in the Netherlands, has a lot on his plate – he's set out to do nothing less than rid the oceans of the millions of tons of plastic garbage that circle along their currents. And judging by the support that has rallied behind his novel approach to the problem, there's a good chance he just might succeed.
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Google Street View now takes you under the sea - CNET
The new underwater panoramic views not only reveal the beauty beneath the sea but also call attention to the damage being done to Earth's oceans by climate change, pollution and overfishing.
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Planting coral could save Great Barrier Reef from climate change, say scientists
Humans could save the Great Barrier Reef from global warming by transplanting corals that survive heat stress, say scientists
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The oceans are in serious trouble, and there’s only one way to save them
Rapid, sustained emissions cuts are the last best hope for the world's marine ecosystems
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Over $40 billion of US Park Service assets at risk from sea level rise
If it goes up a meter, we lose a lot.
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Latest numbers show at least 5 metres sea-level rise locked in
It's too late to stop the seas rising at least 5 metres and only fast, drastic action will avert a 20-metre rise, New Scientist calculates based on recent studies.
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Canada appears poised to sign international Arctic fish deal
Canada appears poised to sign an international agreement to block commercial fishing in the central Arctic Ocean until more is known about the potential of the resource.
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Seafloor Hot Springs Significant Source of Iron in Earth's Oceans
"This proves that hydrothermal activity at the mid-ocean ridges impacts global ocean chemistry of important trace metals," said lead author Joseph Resing, a senior research scientist at the University of Washington's Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, a partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "On longer timescales, it also impacts the productivity of the oceans."
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Researchers use Arctic sea floor mapping to piece together earth’s history
Researchers from MacEwan University will use Arctic sea floor mapping research to understand the past, and present a key to the future. “Its about the closest thing we can get to a time machine,” says Mark Furze, of the research that he and Anna Piénkowski, faculty members in the department of Physical Sciences, will be doing over the next three years.
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Sea Warming Leads to Ban on Fishing in the Arctic
The United States and four other nations that border the Arctic Ocean pledged on Thursday to prohibit commercial fishing in the international waters of the Arctic until more scientific research could be done on how warming seas and melting ice are affecting fish stocks.
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The Bioluminescence Web Page
Bioluminescence-related information, and current research on luminescence. Mainly marine related including jellyfish.
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The oceans are warming faster than climate models predicted
As I have said many times on this blog, if you want to know how much “global warming” is happening, you really have to be able to measure “ocean warming”. That is because more than 90% of the excess energy coming to the Earth from greenhouse gases goes into the ocean waters. My colleagues and I have a new publication, which better characterizes this heating and also compares climate model predictions with actual measurements. It turns out models have under-predicted ocean warming...
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What Oysters Reveal About Sea Change
Mark Bittman braves the elements off the coast of California and learns how researchers are helping local and regional seafood producers monitor the effects of ocean acidification.
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