A skinny young man with a mop of dark hair takes the stage at a 2012 TEDx event. His name is Boyan Slat and he’s on a…
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In 2013, marine scientists witnessed a real-life, aquatic version of Contagion. Over the summer, divers in Monterey,…
In the sapphire-to-stygian waters that cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface, fish school in iridescent sheets, whales…
It’s a new year, and the world has its first new species of shark in 2019. Meet Carcharhinus obsolerus! Though, it’d be…
Thanks to carbon dioxide emissions, Earth’s seas are getting both warmer and more acidic. Until now, the consequences…
In the inky depths of the Gulf of Mexico, pearly white corals crisscross the seafloor, their translucent tentacles…
The Earth around the Mariana Trench, which contains the deepest point on the planet, could be slurping up at least 4.3…
Iceberg mania briefly overtook the internet last month when NASA captured a rectangular freakberg. But icebergs are…
Whales are big-ass animals. They’re so big, in fact, that satellite technology is now good enough to spot them from…
It seems humanity isn’t just content to screw up the surface of the planet. We’re gonna do the deep ocean, too.
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An image of a pea-sized cephalopod captured by a team of scientists in Hawaii has been making the rounds this week as…
A so-described “ghostly” cephalopod put its deep-sea acrobatics on full display this week after it was captured by…
A mesmerizing deep-sea dancer by the name of Enypniastes eximia is enjoying a moment in the limelight after being…
New reports of microplastics turning up in just about everything from our bottled water to our beer pop up often to…
While everyone was distracted by Kanye West spouting inanities in the Oval Office, some actual work was done in the…
They say not all superheroes wear capes. Well, our newest superhero does, and it’s the color of a shallow sea. That’s…
Australian scientists have discovered a previously unknown chain of volcanic seamounts near Tasmania. The area appears…
As the Arctic’s mantle of protective sea ice grows smaller and sadder by the year, new waters are opening up, setting…
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