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UN review shows need to halt destructive fishing practice

A long-awaited report by the United Nations shows the need for an international moratorium on bottom-trawling and other destructive fishing practices that…

Undersea Vehicles to Study Formation of Gold and Other Precious Metals On the Pacific Ocean Floor

The cruise is a joint expedition between Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Nautilus Minerals Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, a mining…

NASA explains puzzling impact of polluted skies on climate

In a breakthrough study published today in the online edition of Science, scientists explain why aerosols — tiny particles suspended in air pollution and…

Midgets and giants in the deep sea

Biologists ever since Charles Darwin have noted that when animals colonize an isolated island, after millions of years they may evolve into entirely new…

Rare shellfish discovery

The two Norwegian scientists could hardly believe their eyes on a dive on the far west of the coast of Spitzbergen in autumn 2004.Right in front of NTNU…

Corals switch skeleton material as seawater changes

That's the startling conclusion drawn by a Johns Hopkins University marine geologist, writing in the July issue of the journal Geology. Postdoctoral fellow…

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