Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space
Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic ...
Plankton are the backbone of the ocean — and may struggle with what’s coming
They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, ...
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Novel machine learning techniques measure ocean oxygen loss more accurately
Using data from historic ship measurements and Argo floats, researchers introduced a machine learning technique that improves assessment and analysis of the ocean's declining oxygen levels.
Schoolchildren check satellite images for island in Russia — then find it’s missing
Mesyatsev Island was formed from Mesyatsev Cape around 1995 as water from a nearby glacier flowed toward the Arctic Ocean, ...
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How the oceans fared at the COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia
The announcement came early on the morning of Oct. 31. Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP16) in Cali, Colombia, had finally agreed on a protocol for ...
Sticks, stars, sickness: How early charts plotted the way we were
From dots and dashes on cave walls to maps of ocean tides and then the earliest graphs, see how we’ve been visualising data ...
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China’s rover uncovers compelling evidence of 3.5 billion-year-old Mars ocean
China’s Zhurong rover has found compelling evidence of a shoreline from a short-lived ancient ocean on Mars. This new ...
14 Mysteries of the Ocean Scientists Still Can’t Explain
Before you get in the water this summer, remember there's a lot going on under the sea we don't yet know about.