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Scientists find microbes in lava tube living in conditions like those on Mars

A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like…

NASA eyes power in Tropical Storm Washi, warnings in the Philippines

Now that Tropical Depression 27W strengthened into a tropical storm, it has been given two names: Washi and Sendong. Tropical cyclones within each ocean basin…

Blue marlin blues: Loss of dissolved oxygen in oceans squeezes billfish habitat

The science behind counting fish in the ocean to measure their abundance has never been simple. A new scientific paper in Nature Climate Change shows that…

Elephant Seal Tracked by Researchers Travels 18,000 Miles

The Wildlife Conservation Society tracked a southern elephant seal for an astonishing 18,000 miles – the equivalent of New York to Sydney and back again.WCS…

Scientists Assess Radioactivity in the Ocean from Japan Nuclear Power Facility

With current news of additional radioactive leaks from the Fukushima nuclear power plants, the impact on the ocean of releases of radioactivity from the plants…

Expanding dead zones shrinking tropical blue marlin habitat

In the December 4 paper published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, these scientists sound an alarm that expanding ocean dead zones are…

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