Ocean (Page 9)

Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth. This is the latest on protecting their vast ecosystems.

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Your Seafood Might Contain Tiny Plastic Particles

Digital Map Of Seafloor Could Help Scientists Predict Climate Change Impacts

Digital Map Of Seafloor Could Help Scientists Predict Climate Change Impacts

Nano-Sized Synthetic Coral Could Suck Up Ocean’s Pollutants

Nano-Sized Synthetic Coral Could Suck Up Ocean’s Pollutants

Five Trillion Pieces Of Plastic Are Floating In An Ocean Near You [Interactive]

Five Trillion Pieces Of Plastic Are Floating In An Ocean Near You [Interactive]

By Christie Wilcox

An Artificial Reef For Any Seafloor

An Artificial Reef For Any Seafloor

By Lindsey Kratochwill

Low-Oxygen Dead Zones Found In Atlantic Ocean

Low-Oxygen Dead Zones Found In Atlantic Ocean

By Mary Beth Griggs

Manganese Nodule

Rare Earth Metal Balls Found Beneath The Atlantic Ocean

By Mary Beth Griggs

Researchers Find Just How Much Plastic We’re Putting Into The Ocean

Researchers Find Just How Much Plastic We’re Putting Into The Ocean

Found: The World’s Newest Deepest-Dwelling Fish

Found: The World’s Newest Deepest-Dwelling Fish

By Lindsey Kratochwill

Radar image City of Rio de Janeiro

This Is What A Shipwreck Looks Like After 113 Years

By Mary Beth Griggs

Pufferfish Don’t Hold Their Breaths To Stay Puffed, Scientists Find

Pufferfish Don’t Hold Their Breaths To Stay Puffed, Scientists Find

By Francie Diep

Rare Anglerfish Caught On Video

Rare Anglerfish Caught On Video

By Rafi Letzter

Mussels Inspire A Glue That Works Underwater

Mussels Inspire A Glue That Works Underwater

By Francie Diep

Massive slick of anchovy shoal up for a day at the beach

Massive slick of anchovy shoal up for a day at the beach

By Popular Science Team

What Happens To A Human Who Spends A Month Under The Sea?

What Happens To A Human Who Spends A Month Under The Sea?

John Steinbeck’s 1966 Plea To Create A NASA For The Oceans

John Steinbeck’s 1966 Plea To Create A NASA For The Oceans

By Rose Pastore

What Would Happen If Everyone Peed In The Ocean At The Same Time?

What Would Happen If Everyone Peed In The Ocean At The Same Time?

This Scary Giant Black Jellyfish Is Stinging Swimmers In Southern California

This Scary Giant Black Jellyfish Is Stinging Swimmers In Southern California

By Dan Nosowitz

A Generator That Harnesses Energy From Ocean Currents

A Generator That Harnesses Energy From Ocean Currents

By Flora Lichtman

James Cameron Donates His Custom-Built Submarine To Science

James Cameron Donates His Custom-Built Submarine To Science

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: What Is Sea Foam? Where Does It Come From?

FYI: What Is Sea Foam? Where Does It Come From?

Plastic-Eating Underwater Drone Could Swallow the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastic-Eating Underwater Drone Could Swallow the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Rebecca Boyle

Ultra-Tough Mantis Shrimp Claws Could Lead to Better Body Armor

Ultra-Tough Mantis Shrimp Claws Could Lead to Better Body Armor

By Rebecca Boyle

How It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea

How It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea

By Rebecca Boyle

An Ocean of Data: Looking for Sunken Treasure in a New Way

An Ocean of Data: Looking for Sunken Treasure in a New Way

By Brooke Borel

200,000-Year-Old Patch of Seagrass Is the World’s Oldest Living Organism

200,000-Year-Old Patch of Seagrass Is the World’s Oldest Living Organism

By Dan Nosowitz

Maldivian Leaders Might Move the Entire Nation to Australia If Sea Keeps Rising

Maldivian Leaders Might Move the Entire Nation to Australia If Sea Keeps Rising

By Rebecca Boyle

Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean

Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean

By Rebecca Boyle

Saving the Seas: Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones

Saving the Seas: Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones

By Rowan Jacobsen

Saving the Seas: Fixing the Water Cycle Is the Key

Saving the Seas: Fixing the Water Cycle Is the Key

Saving the Seas: Bleaching Threatens Coral, But Phage Therapy Could Prevent “Ghostly” Reefs

Saving the Seas: Bleaching Threatens Coral, But Phage Therapy Could Prevent “Ghostly” Reefs

Putting a Price on Carbon Could Slow Oceans’ Acidification

Putting a Price on Carbon Could Slow Oceans’ Acidification

By Donovan Hohn

Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean

Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean

By Dan Nosowitz