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Scientists found that ‘rivers in the sky’ are triggering ocean heatwaves in the North Pacific and North Atlantic, but their effect changes with the seasonsNew research reveals atmospheric rivers, powerful storms hitting the US West Coast, are a key factor in developing marine heatwaves. These ...
Saudi Arabia is covered in sand, yet it imports millions of tons every year, and the reason lies in a tiny detail hidden in every grainSaudi Arabia imports sand from Australia for its massive construction projects. Desert sand is unsuitable for building concrete. River sand...
What Lies Beneath California’s Coast Is Changing How We See Ice Age HistoryBeneath California's modern coastline lie remnants of an ancient Ice Age landscape, revealed by submerged village sites and megafauna fossi...
What Workers Found Beneath a Los Angeles School… Scientists Say It Sat There for 9 Million YearsConstruction at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles unearthed a massive fossil deposit. Millions of marine specimens from two distinct anc...
Why Are the World’s Oceans Getting Louder Each Year?The ocean's natural sounds are being drowned out by human activity. Ships create constant noise that travels far, affecting marine animals....
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Isn’t Empty, It’s Becoming a Floating HabitatOnce seen as a barren plastic wasteland, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now a thriving habitat for coastal species. These organisms, pr...
China trials 'energy-saving' underwater data centresTo cut energy use by data centres, a Chinese firm plans to place a server pod underwater near Shanghai. The yellow capsule aims to solve th...
Death of 5 billion sea stars mystery solved: Scientists reveal what killed the iconic star-shaped creaturesAfter a decade-long search, scientists have pinpointed the cause of the massive sea star die-off along North America's Pacific coast: the V...
Blue whales' mysterious silence leave scientists worried as it sends a dire warning to humanityAlarming reports indicate a significant decline in blue whale vocalizations due to devastating heatwaves. These heatwaves have triggered to...
Scientists crack 12-year mystery behind sea star killing epidemic: Bacterium identified as marine mass killerA decade-long mystery surrounding the devastating sea star wasting disease along North America's Pacific coast has been solved. Scientists ...
Endangered whale spotted off Carolina coast, confirms NOAA. Everything you may like to knowIn an extraordinary incident, one of the world's rarest whales was spotted on the Marin County coast on Friday, much to the elation of rese...
Marine life is fleeing to the Poles due to elevated sea temperatures: StudyThis mass movement of marine life, termed tropicalisation, is changing the ecological landscape of our oceans and leading to a cascade of c...
Climate change draws great white sharks north, threatening ecosystemThere never used to be young great white sharks basking off the busy beaches of central California, but as climate change starts to bite, w...
Cape Cod emerges as one of world's largest hotspots for White Sharks, landmark study revealsCape Cod continues to shine as a global hotspot for white sharks and has now emerged as the largest destination for White Sharks.
Coral reefs in peril: Research reveals fishing gear plastics inflict severe damage to underwater ecosystemPlastic pollution in coral reefs is mainly made up of fishing gear debris, according to research by an international team published in the ...
In a shark attack, Pennsylvanian woman dies in Bahamas. See what happenedA 58-year-old woman from Pennsylvania was attacked and killed by a shark on Tuesday. She boarded a Caribbean cruise and went snorkeling in ...
Off California, sea otters feast and play a part in climate change battle
Global fisheries to be 20% less productive in 2300: StudyThis bleak future will be characterised by 9.6 degrees Celsius increase in mean surface air temperature, nearly 10 times the warming we hav...
Flipkart ropes in 3 tech experts from Amazon, Google and MicrosoftFlipkart ropes in 3 tech experts from Amazon, Google and Microsoft - Dan Rowson, Ravi Byakod & Anand Lakshminarayanan.
NASA airborne campaigns to tackle questions on climateThese studies into several incompletely understood Earth system processes were competitively-selected as part of NASA's Earth Venture-class...