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Millions of tonnes of nanoplastics are polluting the ocean
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Scientists May Have Found the Blueprint of the Human Body at the Bottom of the Ocean
We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...
Meet the 'weird' sea spider that's mapping the evolution of eight-legged creatures
It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...
On a Magical Italian Island, Swimming, Stone and Sea
Favignana, off the west coast of Sicily, is known for its stone quarries, clear waters and fabled fish. A writer explores by ...
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Archaeologists find 140,000-year-old human and animal remains at the bottom of the ocean
A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...
Severed bow of famed U.S. ship torpedoed in WWII found on Pacific seafloor
A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...
Ocean eruption leaves deep-sea creatures gasping as ash clouds blanket the seafloor
Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...
Company's carbon credits raise questions about unproven ocean technology to fight global warming
A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...
Shipwreck fragment linked to one of WWII’s strangest rescue tales
During the Battle of Tassafaronga, the USS New Orleans was struck by a Japanese torpedo that detonated its forward magazines, killing 182 men and ripping away a large forward section of the cruiser.
Takeaways from AP report on company that sold 200,000 carbon credits to remove CO2 from ocean
A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...
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Scientists make disturbing discovery on the deepest parts of the seafloor: "Not a single inch of it is clean"
Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...
Long-lost bow of WWII ship found nearly 83 years after it was blown off in Japanese torpedo strike
To find the bow of this ship is an opportunity to remember the sacrifice of this valiant crew, even on one of the worst nights in U.S. Navy history.” ...