"Dark oxygen" production defies knowledge of the deep ocean, potentially upends standard model for discovering life on other planets
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Discovery of a new primitive microcontinent between Greenland and Canada could help scientists understand how microcontinents form
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Maps distort how we see the world
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Seaweed could save a billion people from famine after a nuclear war
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Plan for £100m UK underwater living research facility move forward
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Beneath the Earth, ancient ocean floor likely surrounds the core
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The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate?
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‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unforeseen test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmth.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after sixty years
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North Atlantic Oscillation contributes to 'cold blob' in Atlantic Ocean
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Drones are showing us sharks like never before
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The secret life of deep sea vents
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Scientists discover second deep-sea octopus nursery off of Costa Rica
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Fabien Cousteau's Proteus underwater research station will be signing a new research agreement with NOAA
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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Vast sunken continent “Icelandia” may exist under the North Atlantic – if proven it could upend long-standing assumptions about region's geological history
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Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
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How coral atolls get their gorgeous ring shapes
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Once mysterious, ocean surface slicks are pelagic nurseries for diverse fishes
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Hurricanes and typhoons moving 30km closer to coasts every decade for the last forty years
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Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – a mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland
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Researchers created amino acids and primitive membranes by simulating conditions found at scalding vents on the ocean floor
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The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born.
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A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
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About 14,650 years ago, sea level jumped twelve meters in just a few centuries—a puzzling past sea level rise might have its missing piece
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More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America
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Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor
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That time the Mediterranean Sea disappeared
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Researchers in Norway have found a freshwater pond on the seabed outside the country's western coast
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When giant scorpions swarmed the seas
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An elusive whale is found all around the world
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Scientists discover giant deep-sea coral reef off Atlantic coast
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What if you detonated a nuclear bomb in the Marianas Trench?
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3D scans reveal deep-sea anglerfish's huge final meal
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