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A new study shows ocean damage nearly doubles the true cost of carbon pollution and reshapes climate decisions.

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Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

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A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

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SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson welcomed Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University, for a discussion on his new book Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean ...