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Gas escaping from ocean floor may drive global warming

Remarkable and unexpected support for this idea occurred when divers and scientists from UC Santa Barbara observed and videotaped a massive blowout of methane…

Small, but mighty

While phytoplankton scientists focus their research on some of the smallest organisms in the world, the impacts can be global. This week, in Proceedings of the…

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…

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