Oceans

Hurricane Ernesto weakens into tropical storm as it moves away from Bermuda

Abhinav Thawait

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Ernesto weakened into a tropical storm late Saturday as it moved away from Bermuda over ...

Extremely rare “doomsday fish” found off Southern California coast

Elaine Hadley

A rare 15-foot oarfish washed ashore on Catalina Island, wowing marine experts and local residents alike Giant oarfish on California ...

The crisis in our oceans shows how quickly climate chaos can strike

Elaine Hadley

Ocean temperatures have been rising steadily for decades, with our seas having absorbed much of the excess atmospheric heat generated ...

Coral Bleaching ‘Off the Charts’ in Atlantic as NOAA Warns Ocean Going ‘Crazy Haywire’

Daisy Hips

The phrase “off the charts” is no exaggeration in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s latest warning about a global ...

U.K. Supreme Court makes ruling over $43 million in treasure from World War II ship sunk by Japanese torpedoes

Abhinav Thawait

South Africa has won a legal claim over $43 million worth of treasure from a World War II shipwreck that ...

New Proposals to Help NASA Advance Knowledge of Our Changing Climate

Daisy Hips

NASA has selected four proposals for concept studies of missions to help us better understand Earth science key focus areas ...

Plastic Is Polluting Our Oceans. Will We Get a Treaty to Cut Plastic Waste?

Abhinav Thawait

Negotiators working on a potentially historic international agreement to limit plastic pollution wrapped up talks this week in Ottawa, Canada, ...

Earth Day 2024 and the environmental challenges posed by plastics • NC Newsline

Gregory Daniels

Today in the 55th Earth Day – an annual commemoration that was, amazingly enough, conceived and launched in 1970 by ...

March is tenth straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say

Abhinav Thawait

Europe’s climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, ...

SpaceX to launch NASA’s PACE ocean-monitoring satellite this week

Daisy Hips

A NASA satellite is about to take flight to map out the ocean’s many hues. NASA’s PACE spacecraft, which will ...

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