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Plankton - The planet's largest CO2 storage 'store'
Not the land or the trees, the sea is the most effective permanent storage of CO2.
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Oceanography
Spooky 'blue tears' spread across the Chinese sea
The phenomenon of virtual green tears is spreading in the East China Sea, poisoning many marine organisms and can cause illness for humans.
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The cause of dinosaurs extinction
Active volcanoes are the cause of the extinction of dinosaurs, not the meteorite that we had previously thought.
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Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia and the facts startle you
70% of the world's oxygen is produced by plankton, lazy because of heredity or Arabs, and imported camels from Australia ... are the truths, if not, no one believes real.
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Black Sea is black?
The Black Sea is really not black. The satellite image of the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) shows bright colors intertwined between cyan, turquoise and blue.
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North Atlantic ocean currents heat the Arctic
Moving between Greenland and Norway, the North Atlantic ocean currents carrying the warmest stream of water in the last 2,000 years are being blamed for accelerating the…
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Sea carbon: Hypothesis is rich in iron
Oceanographers have studied the 'fate' of carbon particles derived from planktonic plankton in the southern sea.
Oceanography
Herds of 1,400 dried sharks make the experts confused
Aerial survey to determine the habitat of the North Atlantic whale in the recent decade revealed the existence of huge giant sharks, National Geographic reported on Apri…
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The mouth is as big as the deep hole of a 10-meter whale shark
Italian underwater cameraman Stefano Ulivi recorded a whale shark with his mouth wide open in the sea off La Paz, Mexico, Story Trender reported on Dec. 22.
Oceanography
The sea water just touches emits blue light
In the photos, one can see a sea of water strewn with clumps of water as if it is capable of producing very magical light.
Oceanography
The coast glows miraculously in the island nation of Maldives
Scenes that seem to be seen only in sci-fi films are discovered at Vaadhoo.
Oceanography
Eel bends like a hair at the bottom of the sea
Many divers may mistakenly think garden eels with hairs stretching from the sea floor, fluttering in the water but easily disappear at any time.
Oceanography
Australia caught rare giant sharks after more than 80 years
Sharks that eat plankton that are more than 6 meters long are caught in fishing nets in southeastern Australia.
Oceanography
Beautiful glowing sea phenomenon in Sweden
The glowing sea phenomenon happened on a small island in Sweden, making the scenery become both beautiful and a bit of a ghost.
Oceanography
Blue whales rotate 360 degrees to hunt
Scientists have recently discovered that blue whales perform acrobatics in the water to attack prey from below.