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Virgin Oceanic's deep-sea submersible (images)
Richard Branson's latest effort is to send a solo submersible to the deepest spot in all five of the Earth's oceans.
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SmartPlanet: Busting hurricanes with ocean cooling pumps
A climate scientist at Stanford University's Carnegie Institute is trying to cool the seas to weaken hurricanes and minimize the death and destruction they bring.
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Oceans of trouble as the CO2 battles widen
Legal battles loom over oceanic environmental issues.
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Gallery: Study: Arctic ice cap to melt in 10 years
The Caitlin Arctic Survey and WWF released data that shows the Actic Ocean sea ice is thinning and predicts the ocean will be relatively ice free during summers ten years from now.
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Hey, deniers, is hotter oceans not part of global warming? Just another hoax?
One of the standard arguments of those who claim to have evidence that global warming is a hoax--or evil conspiracy or even a plot by nefarious forces trying to control the planet--is that the...
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How clean is that beach?
NRDC has put together data from the EPA and tied it to specific locations, beaches near many of America's largest cities. Here's the full report. Both chemical and bacterial pollution along...
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Old-time oceans became deadly
The oceans have always been crucial to the state of earth's biospere. New research shows that deteriorating ocean conditions long ago may had led to a major extinction of living species. This...
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The new ocean czarina takes over
There's a new head of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.) Dr. Jane Lubchenko is a marine biologist. She replaces an admiral at NOAA. Navy, ocean--get it? Hey, it made sense...
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LOHAFEX: The ocean goes green.
Research vessel. Courtesy LOHAFEX project website. I blogged earlier this year about the German-Indian scientific experiment in the South Atlantic. They've seeded the ocean with iron in hopes...
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Everybody needs...water. But there's optimism.
And there's plenty of bad news about the environment. In our homes we have plastics reducing human fertility. In the air we worry about CO2 and methane and global warming. In polar regions the...
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Oceans of woe: getting crabs and losing coral
Warmer oceans do not simply mean more sunny beach holidays. A new research report warns there's a creeping danger for sea life around the Antarctic. As the waters there warm predatory crabs are...
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Photos: Oceans open to Google Earth
Google lures notables including Al Gore and Jimmy Buffett to the launch of Google Earth 5.0, which adds a view of the ocean to the virtual exploration software.
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Photos: Oceans open to Google Earth
Google lures notables including Al Gore and Jimmy Buffett to the launch of Google Earth 5.0, which adds a view of the ocean to the virtual exploration software.
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Google Earth 5 released for the Mac
A new version of Google Earth (v.5.0) that adds support for oceans, the past and Mars was just announce on the official Google Blog. Didn't Google Earth always have an ocean? Technically, yes,...
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Google to launch next big update to Google Earth
On February 2nd, Google is presenting a new version of Google Earth at the California Academy of Sciences, an aquarium, planetarium and natural history museum in San Francisco. This is the...
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Luddites, science and global warming
There's opposition to an oceanic experiment about to take place in the south Atlantic. I blogged about the geoengineering research being done by a German and Indian research team. They're going...
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Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?
The race is on. We humans are trashing large patches of the ocean, says an American researcher. Our cast-off, washed-away chemicals are creating oceanic dead zones. Latest dead zone discoveries...
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Scientists in Europe: be afraid, but there may be hope from friendly phytoplankton
The European Geophysical Union is meeting. Not that you could tell from any American mainstream media coverage. Bet we couldn't find a single news reader at ABC or Fox who could even decipher...
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Harnessing the power of waves
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom believes tapping into tidal and wave power is a swell idea. But how feasible and realistic is this new renewable-energy technology? CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi...
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Images: Oceans on Titan, and salt on Mars
In its quest to discover life outside our planet, NASA has found clues about an ocean that may exist on a Saturn moon and one that may have dried up on Mars.
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