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Minke whales are grossly understudied, but researchers hope to fix that.
Beware ye who swim here.
The Arctic's getting really hot.
That's a lot of fishing.
These hatchlings emerge fully-formed, ready to take on the world from day one.b
The miracle of life.
We have a massive plastic pollution problem, with no solution in sight.
Researchers also discovered gorgeous cenotes that may be connected with Maya religious beliefes.
The clock is ticking.
Scientists have identified yet another unexpected consequence of climate change.
Not many animals eat jellyfish because they are mostly made of water, but they are starting to take over the oceans.
The Arctic is screwed.
We're literally eating the viability of tomorrow's oceans.
Potentially catastrophic for Pacific salmon.
The reefs seem healthier... let's try to keep them that way.
We've just started discovering the tip of the iceberg in terms of deep sea creatures.
Istanbul residents were delighted with the bright and milky water, as they were quick to point out on social media.
It's not a good year for the environment.
It was a turning point for the Earth's geological and climatic history.
A fish has no face.
The starfish are worse for the reefs than bleaching and disease combined.
It is not looking good.
It's even worse than we thought.
Microbeads are slowly killing off oceanic wildlife -- and that's affecting us as well.
It's like the ocean is having a heart attack.
Sorry, no good news.
The oceans are as beautiful as they are bizarre.
Given the sheer size of whales, it should be no surprise that they make some very important contributions to ecosystems.
They call it the "Jacuzzi of Despair" and rarely has a name been so fitting.
They've collected staggering amounts of data.
The sub will be used to explore Titan's oceans.
Whales > Judges.
The consequences are not known at the moment.
We all know the pain and harrowing loneliness of losing a loved one, and it seems whales do too.
Human activity has been wreaking havoc on ocean life. One group however seems to thrive where others struggle to survive: new evidence shows that cephalopods' numbers have significantly increased over the last six decades.
If you've ever seen one up close you probably know that corals are insanely beautiful, but not exactly action packed -- these animals live at their own pace, one so slow that to a human being they might seem frozen in time. But what would coral look like if it lived in 'normal' speed?
Ken Buesseler studies marine radioactivity. He uses radioactive elements such as thorium that are naturally occurring in the ocean as a technique to study the ocean’s carbon cycle, as well as fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and recently, the sources of radionuclides from Fukushima Dai-ichi in 2011. Following the 2011 earthquake in Japan and the subsequent tsunami, […]
The voracious reputation of sharks might soon change as marine biologists uncover that most coral reef sharks eat pray smaller than a cheeseburger.
Carbon dioxide acts like a greenhouse gas and can heat a planet's atmosphere - nothing new so far. But it can be so potent...
The global fish stocks are depleting at alarming rates, much faster than reported by the UN, a study found.
South Korean designer Jeabyun Yeon has just unveiled his new concept of a scuba mask that would allow anyone to breathe underwater without requiring air tanks. His design, named the Triton, includes two arms linked to a mouth piece. The branching arms are designed to extract free oxygen atoms from the water and supply breathable air directly to the user. But I'm not sold on it just yet.
The full extent of Japan's 2011 Fukushima meltdown is still being uncovered, with measured levels of contamination increasing in previously identified sites throughout the North American coast. While it's still too low to threaten human or ocean life, this confirms that the power plant continues to leak radioactive isotopes researchers report.
Bad news for us -- and fish.
The Antarctic Ocean has been sucking more and more carbon dioxide - and this is both good news and bad news. For the Ocean's inhabitants, it's bad news because it increases acidity, which is extremely harmful; for everyone else, it's good news, because it mitigates the effects of climate change.
Scientists have reported the break of a huge part of Jakobshavn Glacier, one of the largest ones in Greenland. A chunk of it roughly the size of Manhattan broke some time between August 13 and August 19.
Coral populations are crucial to the health of oceanic environments, but corals are also extremely vulnerable to changing conditions. Researchers warn that warming waters and ocean acidification lead to coral bleaching which can cause massive damage across both the Atlantic and the Pacific.
We'll take a look at the Man of War and see what you should do to stay safe on the beach.
In what's perhaps one of the most amazing marine science study, a team of researchers scoured the world's oceans fishing for microbes, viruses and other tiny life during a three and a half year trip aboard a schooner. The trip was long and arduous for sure, but ultimately it paid out - big time! The team collected 35,000 samples at 210 stations over the voyage, and found 35,000 species of bacteria, 5,000 new viruses and 150,000 single-celled plants and creatures. Most of these are new to science. Only a small fraction of the newly discovered and known species alike had been genetically sequenced, but results so far show just how interconnected and symbiotic marine life is. It also means it's also vulnerable in the face of environmental changes, particularly climate change.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Obama administration and California lawmakers have announced a doubling of the size of the Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones national marine sanctuaries off Northern California. “NOAA is expanding the boundaries of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary (CBNMS) and Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS) to […]
Using both modern and historic measurements, researchers now have a more extensive view of how the Arctic sea ice has changed in the past few decades, finding that the ice is melting much faster than previously expected. The ice in the central Arctic Ocean thinned 65 percent between 1975 and 2012, from 11.7 feet (3.59 meters) to 4.1 feet (1.25 m).
