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Heat stress from ocean warming harms octopus vision

While climate change has led to an increase in the abundance of octopuses, heat stress from projected ocean warming could…

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Ocean floor a ‘reservoir’ of plastic pollution

New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million…

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California’s Highway 1 near Big Sur collapses into the ocean, shrinking traffic to one lane

Motorists crept along one lane of a scenic stretch of California’s iconic Highway 1 on Monday after a giant chunk…

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How the infamous Pitcairn Island became a model of ocean conservation

Pitcairn is one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world Michael Runkel/robertharding/Ala​my AFTER four nights at sea on a…

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Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean

Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting…

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Ice shell thickness reveals water temperature on ocean worlds

Cornell University astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of…

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Building bionic jellyfish for ocean exploration

Jellyfish can’t do much besides swim, sting, eat, and breed. They don’t even have brains. Yet, these simple creatures can…

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Making wastewater less acidic could help the ocean capture more carbon

Altering wastewater released into the ocean could help store carbon stockphoto-graf / Alamy Reducing the acidity of the huge volumes…

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Researchers studying ocean transform faults, describe a previously unknown part of the geological carbon cycle

Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate…

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System of Atlantic Ocean currents approaches ‘cliff-like’ tipping point, could collapse, study says

An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking…

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