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Surveys show full scale of massive die-off of common murres following the ‘warm blob’ in the Pacific Ocean

Murres, a common seabird, look a little like flying penguins. These stout, tuxedo-styled birds dive and swim in the ocean…

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Tiny poops in the ocean may help solve the carbon problem

A Dartmouth-led study proposes a new method for recruiting trillions of microscopic sea creatures called zooplankton in the fight against…

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Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says | Whales

Collisions between whales and ships can prove fatal for the marine mammals, but researchers say expanding mitigation measures to just…

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Human-caused ocean warming intensified recent hurricanes, including all 11 Atlantic hurricanes in 2024 » Yale Climate Connections

Human-caused climate change boosted the wind speeds of recent Atlantic hurricanes, making them more damaging and costly, according to a…

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Deep ocean clues to a million-year-old ice age puzzle revealed in new study

A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth’s ice ages.…

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Oceanographers record the largest predation event ever observed in the ocean

There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But in the ocean, scientists are finding that fish that…

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Melting Arctic sea-ice could affect global ocean circulation

“Our finding that enhanced melting of Arctic sea-ice likely resulted in significant cooling in northern Europe in the earth’s past…

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Games

Cat Clean Ocean is a chilled out cleaning game that reminds us about the state of our seas

I’m drawn to the ocean, whether it’s watching programmes about the big blue mystery that covers most of our world…

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Identifying the genes that viruses ‘steal’ from ocean microbes

The microbes that cycle nutrients in the ocean don’t do the work on their own — the viruses that infect…

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Liftoff! NASA’s Europa Clipper sails toward ocean moon of Jupiter

NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an…

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