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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Online Tool Serves Up Ocean Science Studies
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Updates to BOEM's Environmental Studies Program Information System (ESPIS) tool, hosted by NOAA Digital Coast, now enable users to search, filter, map, discover, and download more than 40 years of studies and related data that can
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What's the diving like around the UK?
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The UK has some fabulous diving in her seas, not least on the hundreds of wrecks. There is also beautiful marine life and at times stunning visibility. Discover the secret dives of Britain.
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Diving Madagascar: is it any good?
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Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, hosts one of the world's longest continuous coral reefs. The country is famous for her unique land animals, but her seas are also full of life not found anywhere else. And she doesn't
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Small 'Underwater Pompeii' Found Off Greek Island
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Remains of an ancient settlement, complete with a ruined pottery workshop, have been found on the bottom of the Aegean sea off the small island of Delos, the Greek ministry of culture has announced. Dubbed by the Greek media “a
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Technology Enables Historic Finds
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An endeavor to employ a suite of oceanographic research instruments to find downed World War II aircraft and the remains of troops listed as missing in action for nearly 70 years are the subject of a film by camera maker GoPro and
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Around the Pier
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Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has always had a dream of catching science up to the speed of communication.
“Nowadays, how fast is communication happening? In
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Weird Green 'Eggs' Wash Up on Sydney Beach: Photos
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Australian beachgoers got a surprise this week when strange balls of living green algae started washing up on Dee Why beach in Sydney. “I did poke it with my toes and it’s squishy, like a sponge,” Surf Life Saving Club patro
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Massive Extinct Volcano Discovered Beneath Pacific
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Lurking some 3.2 miles (5.1 kilometers) beneath the Pacific Ocean, a massive mountain rises up from the seafloor, say scientists who discovered the seamount using sonar technology.
The seamount is about two-thirds of a mile hig
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Red tide still lingers off coast of Hernando County
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large bloom of red tide continues to linger about 20 miles off the coast of Hernando County. Satellite images from the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the University of South Florida showed a patchy bloom at least 20 miles offs
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Rare albino whale 'parades' off Australian coast
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In a scene straight out of Moby Dick, a rare white whale is back and putting on a show for his fans off the eastern coast of Australia this week.
First spotted on Tuesday, the albino humpback has been nicknamed "Migaloo" by re
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Eighty sea turtles wash up dead on the coast of Guatemala
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An assortment of marine animals and birds reside along the black volcanic sand beaches of Guatemala's Pacific coast, but lately both residents and visitors on the southeast beaches of the country have observed a tragic event – t
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Mercury Content in Fish Will Rise, Study Reports
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Even though several studies have found that eating a good amount of fish could lead to better health, the risk of consuming excess amounts of mercury can be extremely detrimental. Mercury is a toxin created industrially that infec
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Ocean Acidification Will Make Climate Change Worse
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Given that they cover 70% of the Earth’s surface—and provide about 90% of the planet’s habitable space by volume—the oceans tend to get short shrift when it comes to climate change. The leaked draft of the forthcoming comi
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Dolphins dying by the dozens along East Coast
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What's killing the East Coast dolphins?
The carcasses of dozens of the marine mammals, seven times more than normal, have been washing up on beaches this summer, and scientists are struggling for answers to the die-off.
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More Sea Turtles Are Dying From Eating Plastic
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As an intern at an oceanography laboratory in a small beach town on the Brazilian coast, we came across many beached sea turtles–some alive, most dead. While collecting measurements and tissue samples, we would also inspect the
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Autonomous ocean gliders improve environmental studies
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Though 70 percent of the earth’s surface is covered by oceans, 95 percent of these waters are currently unexplored, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Researchers at Texas A&M are working to discov
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Scientists Build A Robot To Track Sharks
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After receiving a grant from the NSF, the research team began work on developing a robotic shark tracking system. The primary robot is off-the-shelf – they use Ocean Server’s Iver2 autonomous underwater vehicle. But they’ve
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Sharks flock to Cape Cod, but fishermen fear the seals
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On any given day, in the waters off Cape Cod, you can see thousands of seals. Tourists line the shores, and gawk, drawn here by the promise of sighting the whiskered sea mammals.
While visiting the Cape with her family, Alexa
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The Basics of the Great White Shark
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Nearly as long as a bus and weighing almost 2.5 tons, no fish is more fearsome or famous than the great white shark. From its torpedo-shaped body to its powerful jaws containing some 300 jagged teeth, the great white has evolved o
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Shark Found Hanging Upside Down off Australian Coast
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The six-foot mako shark was discovered by a local builder and marine photographer, Robbert Westerdyk, during a dive in the HMAS Adelaide marine reserve, about 60 miles north of Sydney.
It had been stabbed in the chest, had its
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Insight Into The Lives Of The Atlantic Great White Shark
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1 month ago today we tagged and released Lydia: a 14 ft. 6 in. mature female Great White Shark weighing 2,000 lbs. Lydia was named after the founder of Bradley University, a long time friend of Caterpillar Inc. So far Lydia has re
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Great White Shark: The Basics
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The legendary great white shark is far more fearsome in our imaginations than in reality. As scientific research on these elusive predators increases, their image as mindless killing machines is beginning to fade.
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NECN: Shark Expedition Launches from Woods Hole, Mass.
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"We embark today on the most ambitious white shark expedition in American history."
In search of a bounty of information on an awesome, though much feared, and deeply mysterious fish.
"This particular project will be the mo
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