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Scientists use biodegradable straws to protect lab-grown coral from hungry fish

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Why Is the Sea So Hot?

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In early 2023, climate scientists—and anyone else paying attention to the data—started to notice something strange....
In early 2023, climate scientists—and anyone else paying attention to the data—started to notice something strange. At the beginning of March, sea-surface temperatures began to rise. By April, they’d set a new record: the average temperature at the surface of the world’s oceans, excluding those at the poles, was jus...

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The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price

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The International Seabed Authority is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, in a building that looks a bit...
The International Seabed Authority is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, in a building that looks a bit like a prison and a bit like a Holiday Inn. The I.S.A., which has been described as “chronically overlooked” and is so obscure that even many Jamaicans don’t know it exists, has jurisdiction over roughly half the...

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Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II

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Just before dawn on September 10, 1944, the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise...
Just before dawn on September 10, 1944, the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise came to life, as ground crews readied a line of airplanes for battle. The day’s mission was critical: to hit Japanese positions and ships in advance of an amphibious invasion of Peleliu, an island in the archipelago of Pal...

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Why Holes at the Bottom of the Ocean Disappear and Reappear

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Researchers are scaling up solar-powered kelp farms

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge...
Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. Every nightfall, cranks mounted on a floating platform lower the ring 25 meters below the surface to expose the seaweed to cooler, more nutrient-...

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Scientists use biodegradable straws to protect lab-grown coral from hungry fish

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The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price

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Researchers are scaling up solar-powered kelp farms