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Mysterious Balls of Goo Are Rolling Onto American Beaches
These thumbnail-size animals may look like jellyfish stripped of their tentacles, but they're actually a lot weirder than that.
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The longest floating structure in history is about to hit the ocean. It might fix a big problem.
It's called The Ocean Cleanup, and it's a 1.2-mile-long system designed to collect and remove plastic from the ocean. For two years, it will hang out in the ocean, hopefully to begin undoing what we've done for decades: polluted the heck out of the water with plastic trash.
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How plankton help control clouds over the world’s most remote oceans
These tiny organisms play a big role in regulating the Earth’s climate. By Daniel Grosvenor.
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Alien Animals and Tortured Seascapes off the Galápagos
“Worms” that aren't actual worms, super octopus moms, and collapsed lava formations populate the seafloor surrounding the Galápagos. By Jane J. Lee.
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Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels. The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors... By Eric Holthaus.
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52 Blue
At a remote military base in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians hear a confounding sound. It is the voice of a whale, but one that sings at a frequency—52 hertz—never before heard by scientists, and inaudible to other members of its species. The whale seems to be alone in the Pacific Ocean, unable to communicate with its kind... By Leslie Jameson. (August, 2014)
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Beautiful Maps Show the World's Oceans in Motion
These maps from NASA show ocean currents around the world.
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Could corals save themselves?
The hidden beauty of corals is being showcased to bring attention to a possible saviour of global reefs. By Zoe Gough.
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Potential Underwater Europa Rover Being Groomed by NASA - Aug 02 2015 08:00 AM - Breaking News - Envirotech Online
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All Signs Indicate a New Monster El Niño Is Coming
Ocean conditions in the Pacific Ocean are increasingly suggestive of a potent El Niño event later this year. While that might seem like good news to the water-starved regions of the United States, the resulting torrential rains could be exceptionally hazardous.
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The Misunderstood Shark
A spate of shark attacks this summer has left beachgoers especially fearful, but there’s much more to the creatures than their bite.
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10 Deadliest Shipwrecks in History
RMS Titanic may be the most notorious shipwreck on record, but it is by no means the worst.
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'Flying spaghetti monster' caught on video off the Angolan coast - New Scientist
Footage of an unusual marine animal covered in tentacles allowed oceanographers to identify it as a siphonophore
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This Digital Map of the Seafloor Can Help Scientists Predict Environmental Change
We know less about the deep ocean than we do about the surface of Mars. But if we want to really understand how humans are impacting the Earth, we need to start looking down deep into the muck. That’s why scientists created the first digital map of the seafloor’s geologic composition.
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$140M in Conservation Work Proposed for Gulf of Mexico
Ten watersheds around the rim of the Gulf of Mexico — from Florida to Texas — are being looked at as sites for $140 million in proposed conservation projects under a plan to restore the Gulf from BP's catastrophic 2010 oil spill. On Thursday the Gulf Coast Restoration Council, a body set up...
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By 2100, Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean
The ocean is in the midst of a radical, manmade change. It can seem kind of crazy that one of the most immense properties on Earth—the ocean washes over 71 percent of the planet—could be completely transformed by a swarm of comparatively tiny, fleshy mammals. But humans are indeed remaking the ocean, in almost every conceivable way. The ocean we know today—that billions of people swim, fish, float, and surf in—that vast planetary body of water will be of an entirely different character by...
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First Cape Verde Storm of 2015 Possible This Week
A tropical wave in the central Atlantic has the potential to develop into a tropical storm over the next several days. Invest 96L was gradually organizing near 10.0°N and 28.3°W at 1800 GMT Sunday , moving west at about 15 mph.
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How global warming has stopped the natural cooling of the oceans
Man-made global warming has triggered a reversal of the natural ocean cooling that has occurred over the past 1,800 years, a study has found.
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Life in a disappearing country
It's one of the clearest injustices of climate change: The Marshall Islands likely won't exist if we warm the planet 2 degrees.
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Oldest message in a bottle found
A CENTURY-OLD message in a bottle, possibly the oldest ever found, has finally reached its destination.
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