Unexpected Life Found In The Ocean's Deepest Trench
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View ArticleGotcha: Satellites Help Strip Seafood Pirates Of Their Booty
Most of the seafood Americans eat comes from abroad. And a lot of that is caught illegally — by vessels that ignore catch limits, or that fish in areas off-limits to fishing.No one knows how much of it...
View Article8 Million Tons Of Plastic Clutter Our Seas
Plastic is one of those inventions that transformed the world. It's light, durable and you can make lots of things with it.But it's also transforming Earth's oceans — and not in a good way. A lot of...
View ArticleAcidifying Waters Are Endangering Your Oysters And Mussels
Bad news for bivalves comes this week from scientists studying ocean acidification.Ocean water in parts of the world is changing. Its chemistry is very slowly becoming more acidic, like lemon juice,...
View ArticleU.S. Biologists Keen To Explore, Help Protect Cuba's Wild Places
As diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba thaw, the island could see a new wave of tourism — with visitors treated to music and scenery that has been closed to most U.S. residents for...
View ArticleJaw Fossil In Ethiopia Likely Oldest Ever Found In Human Line
Scientists working in Ethiopia say they've found the earliest known fossil on the ancestral line that led to humans. It's part of a lower jaw with several teeth, and it's about 2.8 million years old.
View ArticleThink Man-Sized Swimming Centipede — And Be Glad It's A Fossil
If living long and prospering is a measure of success, then the arthropods are life's winners. These are the most common form of life: insects, spiders, crustaceans and centipedes, to name but a...
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Four Tropical Cyclones At Once: How Unusual Is That?
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Over the past few days, four tropical cyclones have been sweeping through the Western Pacific and the Indian...
View ArticleScientists Catch Up On The Sex Life Of Coral To Help Reefs Survive
For the first time, biologists have caught a rare type of coral in the act of reproducing, and they were able to collect its sperm and eggs and breed the coral in the laboratory. The success is part of...
View ArticleBig Shelves Of Antarctic Ice Melting Faster Than Scientists Thought
The Antarctic is far away, freezing and buried under a patchwork of ice sheets and glaciers. But a warming climate is altering that mosaic in unpredictable ways — research published Thursday shows that...
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