Roughly 98% of plastic waste in the ocean dissolves due to sunlight
This is not good news.
Tag: ocean
3D-printed coral can help save reefs and the fish that live there
When life takes your corals away, print more.
Climate change and ozone layer holes form feedback loop, reports international panel
"Greenhouse gas emissions trap more heat in the lower atmosphere which leads to a cooling of the upper atmosphere. Those ...
Asian dust fertilizes the ocean with life-supporting nutrients
Life, uhm, finds a way.
Pluto’s volcanoes might spew out liquid water, new study finds
Talk about a surprising find!
Pluto’s ocean might be held in place by a thin layer of gas
Comfortably insulated.
Robots and AI can help us better understand deep sea species, study reports.
We're fishing for information in the deep seas.
There are arsenic-breathing microbes in the tropical Pacific, a new study finds
Oxygen? In this economy?! Pffff.
Climate change may make the oceans belch out CO2, study warns
Oh, how the waters have turned.
Ocean dwellers are hit twice as hard by climate change as land-based species
Definitely not good.
Researchers unveil the most comprehensive atlas of coral reefs to date
Maps to the rescue.
It’s official: there’s more plastic in the oceans than ever before
Researchers are calling for change on all levels of society.
New upcycling process for PET could finally nudge us into cleaning the seas
I do like cleaner seas.
Plastic is “everywhere” in the ocean, including its deepest trenches — “There’s no good aspect to this,” researchers say
Thrash we've thrown away years ago is killing ocean life as you're reading this.
Nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ could probe the depths of Europa’s oceans
Europa's almost as cold as your ex's heart, just as frozen.
Rising seas might mean more coral reef islands — if we don’t murder all the corals
We might get more 'exotic' if we dial down on the 'extinction'.
Deepest volcanic eruption lies in a field of glass at the lip of the Mariana Trench
Adelle is surely rolling somewhere around there.
Widespread coral species shows unique adaptations against environmental changes
Pocillopora damicornis -- one of the most abundant and widespread reef-building corals in the world -- may help us better understand ...
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