Suffocating seas: low oxygen levels emerging as third major threat to tropical coral reefs
Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and ...
Beaches closed from Malibu to Playa del Rey indefinitely because of fire debris runoff
The recent rainfall and increased debris from fire zone areas have prompted Los Angeles County public health officials to issue an advisory and close several miles of Los Angeles County's coastline, ...
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An earthquake rattled the Cascadia fault 325 years ago. Here’s what we know about the massive quake
January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...
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"Dark oxygen" discovery upends centuries of scientific beliefs, textbooks to be rewritten
Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.
Could ocean worlds support life?
There might be a type of exoplanet without dry land. They're called "Hycean" worlds, a portmanteau of "hydrogen" and "ocean." ...
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The Role of Oceans in Regulating Earth's Climate
Heat Absorption Oceans play a crucial role in absorbing excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, they take ...
Stanford sea turtle study uncovers new effects of global warming in the Pacific Ocean
When Stanford researchers began tracking a group of Loggerhead Sea Turtles, they were trying to answer a simple question about their migration pattern. Now, they've wound up generating far bigger ...
US military practices rescuing astronauts from the sea (photos)
A U.S. military joint task force did some training recently off the Florida coast, preparing to help rescue astronauts from ...
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Researchers make unexpected discovery after studying world's largest no-fishing zone: 'Just outside the boundaries'
New research shows that large-scale marine protected areas are successfully protecting migratory fish species.
Jet stream helping planes slingshot across Atlantic Ocean at 800 mph
When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes ...
The intriguing phenomenon helping planes slingshot across the Atlantic at 800 mph
The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.
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IAEA’s Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Trains Scientists to Evaluate Impacts of Ocean Changes on Marine Organisms
The Winter School brought together 12 participants from 11 countries—Argentina, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ghana, Italy, Namibia, Nigeria, Malaysia, the Philippines and Portugal—for two weeks of ...