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Pour iron into the ocean to
In a study published in Nature on July 18, an international team of experts said that dumping iron into the sea could help absorb carbon from the atmosphere and
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Mysterious blue ocean waves at midnight in California
American photographer Steve Skinner, 43, has recorded rare moments of a mysterious phenomenon on the Swami coast of California (USA). In the middle of the night, when th…
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Strong earthquake shook the Philippines
AFP quoted the US Geological Survey (USGS) as saying that the 6.1 magnitude earthquake occurred at a depth of 35km at 6h18 am through local time. The epicenter is about…
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Plastic waste alarm in the Pacific
Environmentalists who conducted a sea expedition in early 2012 said plastic waste in the Pacific is growing more and more than they previously thought. According to CNN,…
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Garbage in the Pacific increased 100 times
Scientists believe that plastic scraps in the North Pacific (NPSG for short) have formed an area roughly the size of the US state of Texas (covering an area of more th…
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The Arctic Ocean emits greenhouse gases
Research by world scientists published April 23 in the journal Nature Geoscience warns that the Arctic Ocean could be a huge source of methane, a source of greenhouse ga…
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Ocean warming since when?
New research shows that the world's oceans have started to heat up more than 100 years ago, twice the time previously known. The results of the study could help scientis…
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The deepest water in the world disappears mysteriously
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report, Antarctic bottom water (AABW) is disappearing with an average rate of about 8 million…
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Publish carbon dioxide data in oceans
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is strongly promoting international cooperation efforts to build new data on the process of…
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NASA captures the 'underwater storm'
A NASA satellite has just released photographs that stunned viewers on a massive
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The Atlantic Ocean will have less typhoons in 2012
On March 5, at the annual Charleston (US) hurricane conference, US National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read said there will not be a lot of heat-related typhoons thi…
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The amount of radiation in the Pacific Ocean is 6 times higher
According to a survey by the Japan Marine Survey, published on March 12, the incident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in March 2011 caused the content of radioact…
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Washing clothes related to ocean pollution?
Billions of plastic molecules are released when people wash synthetic fiber clothes (such as nylon, polyester or acrylic) that are contributing to ocean pollution. This…
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Japanese tsunami garbage to Hawaii
The waves of tsunami swept after the double disaster in northeastern Japan last year are very close to the Hawaiian Islands, and will reach the west coast of the United…
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The ocean is acidifying at the fastest rate
The latest research by UN and US scientists has confirmed that the world's oceans are currently acidified at the fastest rate of any time in the past 300 million years d…