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Once Earth’s filthiest waters, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now home to a strange marine life

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

Bacterial abundance drives dissolved organic carbon distribution in North Atlantic gyre, model suggests

In the ocean, a haze made from tiny bits of dead plants, animals, and microbes hangs in the upper reaches of the water. Each particle is just a fraction of a micrometer across, but together the carbon ...
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There's only one sea on Earth that doesn't touch land

Forget the seaside, there’s one body of water on Earth that doesn’t touch a single coastline. The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean is called the Sargasso Sea and it’s characterised by its ...
SciELO

Role of the Southern Annular Mode in the sea level over the southern Blue Amazon

Regional sea level rise varies from the global average and is influenced by climate variability. We studied sea level anomalies in southern Brazil from 1993 to 2022, finding increasing trend from 1993 ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

Plastiglomerates: How Humanity Is Entering the Geological Record

As humans make fires on the beach, far-flung plastic that has washed up there melts and fuses permanently with volcanic rocks and sand. Geologists believe these hybrids of human and natural activity ...
The Victoria Advocate

Beachcombing Report: Purple Storm Snails

This past week’s strandline delivered a spectacular mix of open-ocean drifters, Man o’ Wars, blue buttons, by-the-wind sailors, and — tucked among them — one of my favorite finds: the purple storm ...
The Beaumont Enterprise

Beachcombing report: Purple storm snails on Texas shores

This past week’s strandline delivered a spectacular mix of open-ocean drifters, Man o’ Wars, blue buttons, by-the-wind sailors. Tucked among them was one of my favorite finds — the purple storm snail, ...
animalsaroundtheglobe

14 Most Surprising Secrets of Americas Ocean Depths

The vast expanse of the oceans surrounding the United States is one of the planet’s last frontiers. From mysterious creatures to unexplored landscapes, the ocean depths teem with secrets waiting to be ...
Smithsonian Magazine

‘Ghost Gear,’ or Abandoned Fishing Equipment, Is Haunting the Oceans. Here’s How Conservationists Are Fighting Back

Discarded nets, lines and traps are a hazard to marine life and ecosystems around the world, but pioneering programs are tackling the problem creatively through education, prevention, ocean cleanups ...
Indian Defence Review

North Atlantic Currents Are Acting Strangely—And the Consequences Could Be Severe

New research reveals that the North Atlantic subpolar gyre, a critical oceanic system, is destabilizing and could soon reach a tipping point—leading to severe climate consequences. The North Atlantic ...
Live Science

Massive system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is behaving strangely — and it may be reaching a tipping point

An analysis of clam shells suggests the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has had two periods of destabilization over the past 150 years: one around 1920 and the other from 1950 through present. When you ...