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 The Ocean Archive
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"The Food and Agriculture Organization unveiled an ambitious new collaborative initiative for improving reporting on the status of world fish stocks a...
"For hundreds of thousands of years an extraordinary journey has taken place in the sea. "
UC Davis wildlife experts are leading the rescue of oiled birds in San Francisco today after a container ship spilled nearly 60,000 gallons of heavy b...
"On the eve of the first June 8 World Oceans Day celebration officially recognized by the United Nations, data from a sweeping new national survey rev...
"As spring arrives across the country, tourists returning to beaches will face the reality of 'red tide' -- harmful blooms of algae that make water un...
"In an effort to leverage the power of the Internet in the cause of preserving and restoring the oceans and its creatures, film and television star an...
" For the first time in more than 100 years, the ocean flowed into the historic wetlands at Bolsa Chica."
"For the fourth time in its history, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a young white shark on public exhibit."
"The 2007 Celebrate the Sea – the largest and most exciting marine festival of its kind in the Asia Pacific will be staged in Manila."
"A new NOAA report on the health of California's Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary indicates that the overall condition of the sanctuary's mar...
"NOAA has commenced the removal of an estimated 129 tons of marine debris from the main Hawaiian islands."
"Steep topography, active faults, diverse geology, and seasonal storms combine to make the rugged Big Sur area one of the most landslide-prone stretch...
"Thousands of barrels of oil are leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon site each day. The oil ascends from depths of approximately 1502 m. (4928 ft.), ...
"Almost 65% of the coastline of the United States (excluding Alaska, which has no advisories) currently is under advisory. Based on coastal size estim...
The combination of these global change phenomena, together with overfishing, ozone depletion, and other human impacts, is causing catastrophic loss of...
"A dime-sized tropical crab that has invaded coastal waters in the Southeast United States is having both positive and negative effects on oyster reef...
"Nitrogen is flowing down the Mississippi River and into the Gulf of Mexico faster than it can be consumed by floating microscopic plants called phyto...
"A new frontier in marine science is about to be crossed when Australia's surrounding deep sea is explored using manned submersibles for the first tim...
The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans.
"In recognition of World Ocean Day and National Marine Sanctuaries, Sanctuary Sam, the sea lion mascot of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, a...
"A stunning series of satellite imagery of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef shows for the first time visual confirmation that sediment plumes travel to ...
"Coral might be the slowest-growing crop ever farmed by the University of Florida, but researchers say damaged reefs could be repaired faster if they ...
"Using a watershed approach to restore impaired waterbodies is
beneficial because it addresses the problems in a holistic
manner and the stakehold...
"Environmental Defense released a landmark study that provides a clear roadmap for rebuilding fishing stocks and restoring fishing communities."
"A research team has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought endangered or extinct in deep waters near the Galapagos Islands. "
"In the longest running study on how fish populations in coral reef systems recover from heavy exploitation, researchers have found that the fish can ...
"The First prize for the winner of Magic Porthole's First Environment Achievement Contest is a trip to a coral reef on board Research Vessel Tiburon."
"Most of the harbors in America are in trouble. The culprit is pollution. These seaports have been described as the largest and most poorly regulated ...
"By designating these areas as national monuments, the Administration ensures that the marine environment will receive the highest level of environmen...
"Project AWARE Foundation and SeaWeb join forces to host a unique photo contest aimed to turn lenses in a different direction this World Ocean Day."
"This is the world’s first and only ocean registry that allows users to actually purchase their own virtual ocean parcel."
As he visited the site of Wednesday’s oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today proclaimed a State of Emergency.
"10,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil has spilled into the Mediterranean Sea along the coast of Lebanon with an additional 15,000 tonnes expected to follow...
The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Teacher at Sea program is to give teachers a clearer insight into our ocean plane...
"The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct. On Wednesday, in the city of Wuhan in central China, a search expedition, under the direct...
"Pollution is bad for the sea life and so is global warming, but aquatic organisms can be resilient. However, even organisms tough enough to survive o...
"Coral reefs conjure up images of rich, colorful ecosystems yet an increasing number of reefs are becoming unhealthy and overrun by seaweed."
SeaWeb's Marine Photobank are calling for entries for the third "Ocean in Focus" Conservation Photography Contest that feature species in need of prot...
"In the first study to look at what happens over the years to the billions of pounds of plastic waste floating in the world's oceans, scientists are r...
"A new and compelling argument for reducing fish harvests – the profit motive – could persuade world fishers to endure the short-term pain of lower ca...
"Emergency restoration efforts are underway in Puerto Rico following the grounding of the 748-foot oil tanker Margara along the south coast of Puerto ...
"For the first time in history, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species includes ocean corals in its annual report of wildlife going extinct."
"Bring your blankets and join Reef Check for this free event at Bluffs Park in Malibu!"
"Coral bleaching, a stress response that turns rainbow-hued reefs into bone-white graveyards, is damaging reefs worldwide. But some corals survive. A ...
"It's called the 'area to be avoided,'— 1,000 square nautical miles located in the Roseway Basin region of the Scotian Shelf, just south of Barrington...
"Sharks in captivity avoid metals that react with seawater to produce an electric field, a behavior that may help fishery biologists develop a strateg...
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's clients are the whales and the crew defend them by intervening to enforce international conservation law i...
Two NOAA Fisheries Service researchers, George Balazs and Yonat Swimmer, both with the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in Hawaii, have b...
"...dwindling turtle populations on many historically important nesting beaches are overlooked by conservation assessments that focus instead on the f...
The threats posed by urban development along the Naples area in Santa Barbara will exacerbate the general plight of the significant kelp ecosystems.
At least 20 new species have been discovered in the first comprehensive survey of Indonesia’s sharks and rays since the 1850s.
There is growing concern among local and international scientists and conservationists that massive tourism, illegal immigration, pollution, over-fish...
"More oceanic or 'pelagic' sharks are being added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species based on the findings of this week’s international expert...
"Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and operatives of the Ecuadorian Environmental Police seized a total of 18,673 shark fins and arrested four suspect...
Is the salmon you're serving for dinner tonight wild caught or farm raised? You may be surprised to learn which one is the environmentally friendlier ...
Seal hunting has received increased attention as Canada has increased the allowable take for the Harp Seal.
"Ocean historians have painted the first detailed portrait of a burst of fishing from 1900 to 1950 that preceded the collapse of once abundant bluefin...
"The Agulhas Current is the 'Gulf Stream' of the southern Indian Ocean, carrying warm and salty tropical waters southward along the east coast of Afri...
"...20 years of exploration, combined with analysis of records over the past 150 years, has convinced the team of scientists that the world's oceans ...
"While erosion and wetland loss have become huge problems along Louisiana's coast, the land 30 to 50 feet beneath much of the Mississippi Delta has be...
"This report is the second in a series of national coral reef ecosystem status reports." (excerpt)
"The 40,000 'eco-tourists' who visit the South Pole every year cause enormous greenhouse gas emissions."
"The purpose of translocation was to establish southern sea otters in one or more areas within historic habitat, thereby minimizing the possibility th...
"Under the former Larsen ice shelf east of the Antarctic Peninsula, deep-sea sea cucumbers and stalked feather stars were ubiquitously found in shallo...
"Mussels are used to measure the levels of contaminants as they feed by filtering water and so accumulate any contaminant substances in their organs."
"Throughout the world, large areas of our coastal waters are becoming so polluted that they lack sufficient oxygen, one of the basic building blocks o...
"A young male white shark on exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium since September was tagged and returned to the wild shortly after sunrise today (Tue...
As a consumer, you have the power to make a difference.
"On June 8th hundreds of communities around the globe will celebrate the 15th annual World Ocean Day – a day to celebrate our individual connection to...
"An underwater robot is helping scientists understand why four-flippered animals such as penguins, sea turtles and seals use only two of their limbs f...
"Hovering in a tiny submarine 1.4 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist felt as if he were in a time m...
"The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of ...
"Hurricanes Katrina and Rita focused the international spotlight on the vulnerability of the U.S. coastline."
"Scientists gathering evidence of ancient ice sheets uncovered a new mystery about what's happening on the Arctic sea floor today."
Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that will measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean.
"This August in Monterey Bay, Calif., an entire fleet of undersea robots will for the first time work together without the aid of humans to make detai...
It may not rank among the top 10 causes of death, but decompression sickness can be fatal. Instead of waiting for symptoms to appear, a University of ...
"In a unique collaboration, U.S. and French researchers are launching large, specialized balloons into the stratosphere to drop nearly 300 instrument ...
"Earth's unique, forbidding ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets."
"In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of ...
"To scientists and to archeologists the Black Sea is a remarkable feature because its lower levels are almost biologically dead."
" The buoy, under development for several years, will be deployed in 'hurricane alley' off Florida’s east coast."
"The ecological phenomenon, known as Florida red tide, can be harmful for people with asthma. Florida red tides, an annual event in areas along the Gu...
"A University of Rhode Island oceanographer is completing work on an even better model that for the first time uses satellite technology to help predi...
"Scientists have solved the genomic puzzle of an organism discovered in the oceans with potential for producing compounds showing promise in treating ...
"A chemical culprit responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean has been found. This same chemical may ho...
"Researchers concluded that extinctions resulting when one ocean became two were delayed by 2 million years."
"New evidence uncovered by oceanographers challenges one of the most long-standing theories about how species evolve in the oceans."
"New research shows that the second most diverse group of hard corals first evolved in the deep sea, and not in shallow waters."
"Imagine descending in a submarine to the ice-cold, ink-black depths of the ocean, 800 metres under the surface of the Atlantic. Here the tops of the ...
"Damming the Red Sea could solve the growing energy demands of millions of people in the Middle East and alleviate some of the region's tensions."
"Smaller but more numerous than marine algae, marine microbes such as bacteria and blue-green algae have huge effects on ocean chemistry and possibly ...
"A primary goal of the expedition will be to search for and collect marine organisms from the reefs to test them for the presence of new chemical comp...
"Scientists have sequenced and compared the genomes of planktonic microbes living throughout the water column in the Pacific Ocean. The pioneering stu...
"We can only marvel at the way that dolphins, whales and porpoises scythe through water. Their finlike flippers seem perfectly adapted for maximum aqu...
"This technology holds great promise for scientists striving to reach the long-held goal of Project Mohole in the 1950s: drilling all the way through ...
"Today, the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment gets underway, all ready to log, drill, sample, and install monitoring instrumentation in one of...
"Freeman exposed mussels native to the northern – above mid-coast Maine – and southern New England to both Carcinus and the Hemigrapsus. Both populati...
"Two awards will re-energize and fully automate the scientific research program aboard Royal Caribbean International’s Explorer of the Seas, the first...
"Seismologists have found a new way to piece together the history of hurricanes in the North Atlantic -- by looking back through records of the planet...
"Scientists have found one of the largest fields of seafloor vents gushing super-hot, mineral-rich fluids on a mid-ocean ridge that, until now, remain...
A discovery of fossilized footprints reveals when reptiles first conquered dry land.
"Ancient visitors left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of humans can permanently change-- and eliminate -- life on what had been isol...
"NASA will send three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer into the ocean depths off the Florida coast."
The ocean contains two types of energy: thermal energy from the sun's heat, and mechanical energy from the tides and waves.
"Giant prehistoric penguins? In Peru? It sounds more like something out of Hollywood than science."
"International experts on wave and current power, will meet with top leaders from government, non-government organizations, environmental advocates, a...
Computer scientists from the University of Bristol are collaborating with shark researchers to build an international visual biometrics database of Gr...
"Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study links episodic fire outbreaks in the past fiv...
"Coral reefs, like tree rings, are natural archives of climate change. But oceanic corals also provide a faithful account of how people make use of la...
"Volcanic eruptions in high latitudes can greatly alter climate and distant river flows, including the Nile..."
"Could the sound and vibrations of black smokers be the reason fish in total darkness avoid being poached by waters as hot as 750 F?"
"Water is the basic substance of life on earth, and it is increasingly in short supply."
"Scientists examining a spike in worldwide ocean temperatures 55 million years ago have linked it to massive volcanic eruptions that pushed Greenland ...
"A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered s...
"Springtails, mites, worms and plant life could help solve the mystery of Antarctica's glacial history according to new research published in the jour...
"Huge areas of sea floor have been freed up by the collapse 4 years ago of the Larsen B platform along the Antarctic Peninsula -- leaving a blank spot...
University of Leeds scientists have created the first convincing robotic fish that shoals will accept as one of their own.
"Knowing how powerful a hurricane is, before it hits land, can help to save lives or to avoid the enormous costs of an unnecessary evacuation."
"Scientific business-as-usual became an adventure in ocean floor geology for Donald Forsyth, Alberto Saal and their students when the instruments they...
"An international team of scientists will explore the seafloor near Papua New Guinea...investigating active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the fo...
"A scientific expedition this fall will map the unexplored Arctic seafloor where the U.S. and Canada may have sovereign rights over natural resources ...
"Tracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean..."
"Ocean explorers are puzzling out Nature's purpose behind an astonishing variety of tiny ocean creatures like microbes and zooplankton animals -- each...
"Census of Marine Life scientists released an inventory of species distribution and diversity in key global ocean areas."
"The ubiquity of tiny particles of minerals--mineral nanoparticles--in oceans and rivers, atmosphere and soils, and in living cells are providing scie...
"A new reverse osmosis membrane promises to reduce the cost of seawater desalination and wastewater reclamation."
"NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries has launched a new online multimedia library."
Nereus—a mythical god with a fish tail and a man’s torso—was chosen June 25 as the name of a new deep-sea vehicle under construction at the Woods Hole...
"A large quantity of nitrogen compounds enter the oceans and may lead to the removal of some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere."
A new Web site, created by the NOAA Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health, serves as an electronic field guide to the types, locations...
"Scientists have discovered a new way that phosphorus is naturally removed from the oceans – its stored in diatoms. "
"The World Ocean Observatory is pleased to announce that it will join forces with the Ocean Classroom Foundation, an educational organization building...
"The NASA-managed Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) instrument settled into orbit around Earth in 1997 and took its first measurements o...
"The U.S. has taken the next step toward construction of the revolutionary Ocean Observatories Initiative: a network of ocean observing components, an...
"Scientists have found new evidence to support the presence of large oceans on Mars in the past."
"The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research and International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans have teamed up to establish the Oc...
"For two decades, scientists have puzzled over why vast blooms of microscopic plant life grow in the middle of otherwise barren mid-ocean regions."
"On April 1, 2007 researchers completed an important step in
constructing the first deep-sea cabled observatory in the continental United States. "
"The new approach uses computer models with much more accurate representation of the processes that lead to hurricane formation."
"MIT chemists have demonstrated how tiny marine organisms likely produce the red tide toxin."
"MIT has created an ocean model so realistic that the virtual forests of diverse microscopic plants have grown patterns that precisely mimic their rea...
"MIT researchers are working toward the day when a team of robots could be put into action like a team of Navy SEALs -- doing such dangerous work as s...
"This week Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed by the University of Washington, leaves for the depths of the Atlantic Ocean."
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is emitted in great quantities as bubbles from seeps on the ocean floor near Santa Barbara.
"The excavation is searching for evidence of human habitation in Florida from 10,000 B.C. or 12,000 years ago."
"Prominent evidence of selenium use by microbes may force new ideas of element's role in planetary processes such as carbon cycling and photosynthesis...
"Gustavo" is an imposing bull always in search of the best feeding grounds.
"Indiana University archaeologists are confident they are closer to discovering some of Christopher Columbus' lost ships -- and the answer to a 500-ye...
The Gulf Stream's impact on climate is well known, keeping Iceland and Scotland comfortable in winter compared to the deep-freeze of Labrador at the s...
"Many earthquakes in the deep ocean are much smaller in magnitude than expected."
"The stars of the 'Jaws' films–sharks–have recently become the subject of a University of Alabama engineering research project."
"We've all seen the satellite images of Earth at night--the bright blobs and shining webs that tell the story of humanity's endless sprawl."
"Big waves in fierce storms have long been the focus of ship designers in simulations testing new vessels."
"More than 20 years of continuous measurements and a dose of 'belief' yield discovery of subtle ocean currents that could dramatically improve forecas...
"An enormous submarine landslide that disintegrated 60,000 years ago produced the longest flow of sand and mud yet documented on Earth. The massive su...
"An advanced breathing apparatus that mimics the efficiency, simplicity, and durability of the gill-swim bladder found in fish could greatly improve h...
"With the goal of saving lives and preventing environmental and structural damage during real tsunamis, Princeton Engineering researchers created expe...
"Before the worst mass extinction of life in Earth’s history – 252 million years ago – ocean life was diverse."
"An ocean odor that affects global climate also gathers reef fish to feed as they 'eavesdrop' on events that might lead them to food."
"A team of coral researchers has taken a major stride towards revealing the workings of the mysterious ‘engine’ that drives Australia’s Great Barrier ...
"The first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort and Spa."
Enjoy the latest in high definition beauty, captured by Howard Hall during twenty days of sport diving in the Maldives aboard the M/V Manthiri.
"A catastrophic megaflood separated Britain from France hundreds of thousands of years ago, changing the course of British history, according to resea...
"For decades, oceanographers have embraced the idea that Earth's ocean currents operate like a giant conveyor belt, overturning to continuously transp...
After 10 years of careful breeding and research, scientists have developed what could be the world's most perfect prawn.
"A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth's mantle ...
"Neural processes in even a simple sea creature are far from sluggish."
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A nanotube membrane on a silicon chip the size of a quarter may offer a cheaper way to remove salt from water. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore Na...
"The first buoy to monitor ocean acidification has been launched in the Gulf of Alaska. Attached to the 10-foot-diameter buoy are sensors to measure c...
"One of the most significant questions facing marine ecologists today, is just how much of an impact global variations in the environment are having o...
"Huge waves that struck Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all originated from the same storm."
"Sea level isn't, well, level. Nor is the rate by which sea level has been rising over the past few decades, but the trend is clearly up. Global sea l...
"The journeys of two marine turtles around the world's oceans will be available to view online this Christmas."
"Scientists have suspected for years that whale sharks travel from the island of Utila, Honduras up through the waters of Belize to Mexico as part of ...
"NASA will test concepts for future space exploration next month by sending three astronauts and an oceanographer on a mission to an underwater labora...
The quake in December 2004 had magnitude of 9.3, the second largest ever detected rupture in the earth crust. A fast and correct seismological recordi...
"In order to extend alert times and avoid false alarms, a new seafloor pressure recording system has been designed to detect tsunamis shortly after th...
"Scientists aboard the research drilling ship JOIDES Resolution have, for the first time, drilled into a fossil magma chamber under intact ocean crust...
"Starting this month, a giant NASA DC-8 aircraft will buzz at low level over the coasts of West Antarctica, where ice sheets are collapsing at a pace ...
"Working in a rare, 'natural seafloor laboratory' of hydrothermal vents that had just been rocked by a volcanic eruption, scientists have discovered w...
"But at the bottom of the ocean, the intense pressure and the liquid environment suppress the plasma, producing less detectable light. The laser light...
"A NOAA-led team of ocean explorers returned this month with new and dramatic video and sound recordings of a long-term deep-sea volcanic eruption fir...
"Blue green algae are significant species in the global carbon cycle because they transform nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into a useable nutrient, ...
"Hydrocarbons are being generated by the simple interaction of seawater with the rocks under the Lost City hydrothermal vent field in the mid-Atlantic...
"Some of the oxygen we breathe today is being produced because of viruses infecting micro-organisms in the world's oceans."
"An array of instruments that allows scientists to observe the basic physical state of all world oceans simultaneously is approaching its coverage goa...
The academic community’s most advanced seismic-research vessel was dedicated here today, opening potential new windows on natural hazards, earth’s evo...
"Tsunamis are among the most-devastating natural calamities. These earthquake-generated waves can quickly engulf low-lying land and bring widespread d...
"Rip currents are powerful, channeled currents of water flowing away from shore. They typically extend from the shoreline, through the surf zone, and ...
"Researchers have discovered where basking sharks, the world's second largest fish, hide out for half of every year."
"A team of researchers has uncovered a subtle chemical pathway by which a normally inoffensive algae can suddenly start producing a lethal toxin. The ...
"A report that recommends steps to reduce hurricane damage in New Orleans was released today by an expert engineering panel of the American Society of...
"The deployment of active sonar by the U.S. Navy and its potential impacts on marine mammals has been an ongoing issue of intense debate; regulatory, ...
"MBARI will embark on an expedition off the Big Sur coast to conduct an archaeological investigation at the submerged wreck site of the rigid airship ...
"The first comprehensive 'inventory' of sea and land animals around a group of Antarctic islands reveals a region that is rich in biodiversity and has...
"Scientists have found hundreds of new marine creatures in the vast, dark deep-sea surrounding Antarctica."
A masked marauder has emerged unexpectedly from the ocean to rescue a dying coral reef from destruction in the nick of time.
"For the second time, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a young white shark on public exhibit, bringing him to Monterey August 31, 14 days after aq...
"As long as the numbers aren’t drastically different from year to year, it means that our methods for measuring the bonefish are working, and that the...
"The sperm whale and its large prey, the jumbo squid, are among the deepest divers in the ocean, routinely reaching depths of 3,000 feet or more."
"There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians."
"NOAA scientists have discovered areas of deep-sea corals in the NOAA Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary off the Washington state's Olympic Penin...
" Well, like humans, fish also have a liver and other internal organs that are just as susceptible to a number of disease conditions."
People suffering from chronic mental or physical disabilities should not resort to a dolphin "healing" experience, warn two researchers from Emory Uni...
"New research by marine biologists at the University of St Andrews has revealed that dolphins name themselves using unique ‘signature’ whistles."
"Coral reef fish hatchlings dispersed by ocean currents are able to make their way back to their home reefs again to spawn."
"Researchers found some fish alter their behaviour according to that which they observe in other fish. The team found, for example, that bold fish bec...
"A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen."
"The discovery of a giant fossilised claw from an ancient sea scorpion indicates that when alive it would have been about two-and-a-half meters long."
"Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, University of Washington scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor."
"Researchers revealed the genetic basis behind one of the best-documented examples of evolutionary change in the fossil record: how whales lost their ...
"For decades after blue and humpback whales were commercially hunted, many biologists grew concerned that their numbers had been reduced to the point ...
"New technology has allowed an international team to witness for the first time the behaviour of the southern elephant seal."
"Killer whales hold the gloomy record of being the most-polluted European arctic mammal."
"Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunl...
"Metagenomics is a revolutionary approach to study microbes."
"NOAA researchers and their partners have developed passive listening devices designed to record the calls of the Earth's great whales...The new techn...
"A new 'black smoker' has been discovered at about 8,500 feet underwater by an expedition currently exploring a section of volcanic ridge along the Pa...
"When you approach a New Zealand green-lipped mussel farm all you can see above water are the lines of buoys floating on the surface. The mussels are ...
"Over the last two decades, marine biologists have discovered lush forests of deep-sea corals and sponges growing on seamounts offshore of the Califor...
"It is like surveying a new continent half way between America and Europe. We can recognise the creatures, but familiar ones are absent and unusual on...
"A new study provides some of the first evidence that albatrosses in the North Pacific may be affected by environmental contamination."
"The Smithsonian's National Zoo recently acquired 12,000 new animals--microscopic Elkhorn coral larvae--as part of an international collaborative prog...
" Listed as a rare species, relatively little is known about whale sharks, which live in tropical and warm seas, including the western Atlantic and so...
"A host of record-breaking discoveries and revelations that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge were achieved by the Census of Marine Li...
"The warming most global climate models predict will do more harm than simply raise the sea levels that most observers fear. It will make drastic chan...
"...researchers at The Institute for Genomic Research and Scripps Institution of Oceanography have sequenced the cyanobacterium's genome--and found th...
"Marine scientists recently found humpback whales migrate over 5,100 miles from Central America to their feeding grounds off Antarctica; a record dist...
"Many of the world's deep-sea octopuses evolved from species that lived in the Southern Ocean"
"Behind the sailor's lore of fearsome battles between sperm whale and giant squid lies a deep question of evolution: How did these leviathans develop ...
"Scientists once thought of tool use as a defining feature of humans. That's until examples of tool use came in from other primates, along with birds ...
"Census of Marine Life scientists trawled rarely explored tropical ocean depths between the southeast US coast and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to inventory...
"Researchers took part in an exciting survey of unexplored depths of the Atlantic Ocean during a three-week mission."
"Female sharks can reproduce without having sex, scientists have found. A female hammerhead shark has given birth without mating with a male and its o...
" A new study compared a humpback whale brain with brains from several other cetacean species and found the presence of a certain type of neuron cell ...
"The sound level of songs blue whales sing across the vast expanses of the ocean to attract potential mates has been steadily creeping downward for th...
"How is the deep sea like a desert island? It sounds like a child's riddle, but it's actually a serious scientific question with implications for both...
"Scientists can predict how the distance marine larvae travel varies with ocean temperature – a key component in conservation and management of fish, ...
Scientists have revealed an important discovery that raises doubts concerning the viability of plans to fertilize the ocean to solve global warming, a...
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Pane...
"It seems inconceivable. But top scientists warn that such a catastrophe may in fact play out in coming generations unless action is taken to stop oce...
"Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning are dramatically altering ocean chemistry and threatening marine organisms, including ...
"Data collected from ocean sampling in the Pacific Ocean from the southern to northern hemispheres confirms that the oceans are becoming more acidic."
Once roofed by ice for millennia, a 10,000 square km portion of the Antarctic seabed represents a true frontier. Now it has yielded secrets to some 52...
"In searching for ways to counteract the greenhouse effect, some scientists have proposed capturing the culprit—carbon dioxide—as it is emitted from p...
"Many people are wary of ocean sequestration, including some authors of this chapter, because it is known that small changes in biogeochemical cycles ...
"Ancient plant life recovered in recent Arctic Ocean sampling cores shows that at the time of the last major global warming, humidity, precipitation l...
"Further evidence for the decline of the oceans’ historical role as an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide is supplied by new research by en...
As the world warms, the interaction between the Atlantic Ocean and atmosphere may be the recipe for stronger, more frequent hurricanes.
"A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago."
The potential revision to the government's approach for rejuvenating a huge 'Dead Zone' in the Gulf of Mexico is potentially dangerous and should be r...
"Diatoms -- some of which are so tiny that 30 can fit across the width of a human hair -- are so numerous that they are among the key organisms taking...
More than 40 percent of the world's oceans are heavily impacted by human activities, including overfishing and pollution, according to a new study tha...
"Researchers have discovered the mathematical relation between the number of hurricanes produced in certain parts of Earth and the energy they release...
"Changes in growth rates in some coastal and long-lived deep-ocean fish species in the south west Pacific are consistent with shifts in wind systems a...
"As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies ...
"Amazing animals will capture visitors' hearts and minds when the Monterrey Bay Aquarium's newest special exhibition, 'Hot Pink Flamingos: Stories of ...
"Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets...
"Gas escaping from the ocean floor may provide some answers to understanding historical global warming cycles and provide information on current clima...
"Finally, some good news about the prospects of coral reefs in the age of climate change."
"A new investigation, just published in the scientific journal Science, reveals that a warming induced deficiency in oxygen uptake and supply to tissu...
"The University of Miami and the University of Iowa are pleased to announce that the Hurricane Futures Market is now open again for the 2007 hurricane...
"University of Utah mathematicians have arrived at a new understanding of how salt-saturated ocean water flows through sea ice."
"New research reveals the major influence of fish on maintaining the delicate pH balance of our oceans, vital for the health of coral reefs and other ...
"Using echo-sounding equipment to create images and maps of areas below the ocean floor, researchers have begun to unravel a new story about the Antar...
"A new analysis of 50 years of changes in freshwater inputs to the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic may help shed light on what's behind the recently o...
"Up to now, the oceans have buffered climate change considerably by absorbing almost one third of the worldwide emitted carbon dioxide."
"A new study has found that large segments of the Pacific Ocean lack sufficient iron to trigger healthy phytoplankton growth and the absence of the mi...
Pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year
"Several times over the past century, scientists and environmental engineers have proposed spreading slurries of dissolved iron into the oceans."
"In a global culture dominated by speed, from overnight package delivery to bullet trains to fast-cash withdrawals, the company has seized on a sales ...
"A new climate model predicts that as the winds shift south, they can do a better job of transferring heat and carbon dioxide from the surface waters ...
"Hurricanes may be known for causing all sorts of destruction, but a new study out this week from scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel Sch...
"The National Center for Atmospheric Research has taken delivery of a new supercomputer to advance research into severe weather and the future of Eart...
"Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean--from the Labrador Sea south of Greenland all the way to North Carolina...
"Carbon emissions from human activities are not just heating up the globe, they are changing the ocean’s chemistry."
"El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be oversh...
"The ocean, they say, is Earth’s “biggest heat bucket.” And like a bucket placed under an overflowing sink, the ocean is filling up with the heat that...
"Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to researchers at the...
"Australian researchers have studied and documented the effect of the 'sundried tide,' a force of nature that can silently wipe out coral reefs."
"Large areas of the Arctic sea-ice are only one metre thick this year, equating to an approximate 50 percent thinning as compared to the year 2001."
"The International Ice Charting Working Group predicts more marine transportation in the Arctic as sea ice continues to diminish and warns of 'signifi...
"Waters from warmer latitudes -- or subtropical waters -- are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ...
"A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean's surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 an...
"Climate model simulations for the 21st Century indicate a robust increase in wind shear in the tropical Atlantic due to global warming, which may inh...
"The last fish you ate probably came from the Bering Sea."
"Sea surface temperatures are one of the key ingredients for tropical cyclone formation and they were warming up in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and ...
"Whales, dolphins and porpoises are facing increasing threats from climate change."
"Coral disease outbreaks hit hardest in the healthiest sections of the Great Barrier Reef, where close living quarters among coral may make it easy fo...
"We need to continue discovering how the Earth system works in order to evaluate the numerous ways that humans can adapt to climate change."
Our little problem occurred during the second week of our expedition. We were having an absolutely great morning. After reaching our sandy patch at th...
Only two hundred yards in diameter, the Mt Mutiny reef rises to the surface from over a thousand feet of oceanic water between the two main Fijian isl...
There are two reasons why scratching an itch on the nose of a thirty foot whale is a bad idea. One reason is that the beast might not like it. The oth...
"A Sea Change brings a crucial and little-known issue to the attention of film goers. The movie, which takes the audience to some of the globe's most ...
The garibaldi cowered at the base of his nest as we descended upon him with tripod, movie camera, and 1000-watt movie lights. We planted the tripod le...
"When the first Europeans arrived in what we know as Polynesia they immediately wrote home exclaiming they'd finally found Paradise, as well as the No...
The idea was to film bat rays in the act of mating. We'd discovered about a hundred of them lying in the sand at the Southern tip of San Clemente Isl...
This 9-week summer program brings together students interested in digital media production and environmental studies to learn about important issues o...
"On the morning of the 11th April, 2007, in Dean’s Blue Hole on Long Island, Bahamas, the freediver and athlete, 26 year old William Trubridge of New ...
Following is a 2001 interview of Howard conducted by Bret Gilliam, which appeared in the October 2001 issue of Fathoms Magazine.
The lobster stood on a rock about two feet away. Behind the lobster, the kelp shifted in the gentle surge. Bright comets flew out of the night - small...
I remember the first time I saw an ad for an ElectroLung. I was leaning on the glass counter at LA County Skin Diving School reading a copy of Skin Di...
Back in August of 1993 Howard and I journeyed to the Flower Garden Banks Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Freeport, Texas to film what was then a rel...
"This promises to be a fantastic journey taking me back to a part of the world that kick–started my deep interest in all things oceanic."
"Steve Irwin, better know as the Crocodile Hunter on the cable channel Animal Planet, has died while filming in the Great Barrier Reef."
I pulled the oxygen mask down over my face and began to breathe deeply as air rushed into the recompression chamber. The temperature immediately soare...
"IMAX Corporation today announced that they will embark on a third original IMAX 3D co-production for release to IMAX theatres in 2009."
"For two weeks we’ll be exploring the northwest coast of Africa, delving into the far corners of a pair of the smallest countries in the populous cont...
"Gustav chased us out of southern Louisiana but we returned, post-storm and post-conventions."
"It was one year ago - November 23, 2007 - that I watched the veteran Antarctic tourist ship Explorer sink below the surface of the cold Southern Ocea...
"Situated in a small archipelago just Southeast of Sulawesi, a large Amoeba shaped island in the center of Indonesia, Wakatobi is truly a slice of par...
We are on our way to begin production of an IMAX 3D film about biodiversity in our world’s oceans. This is the beginning of the adventure of a lifetim...
Considering the extreme nature of the many dives we have made together during the past decade, it was all the more surprising when one of our best div...
Diving at night is most disquieting when you’re in the open sea hanging far above an ocean floor many fathoms beyond diving range, and even more forbi...
"David Doubilet has joined the judging panel for the 2009 International Underwater Photo & Video Competition."
"On Monday the 20th October, Guy Cribb successfully crossed the English Channel in under 6 hours in stormy seas and raging winds."
"We are excited to announce a very special trip for 2009 to the Revillagigedos Archipelago on the live aboard dive vessel the Solmar V. "
It was July of 1978 and the beginning of a three-week expedition to film California sharks for a prime-time CBS Television Special. It would be my fir...
Bob Cranston, Mark Thurlow and I slip over the side of the Undersea Hunter's skiff and wait while Michele Hall and Betty Michalwicz Almogy pass each o...
"The 2009 AIDA Freediving World Championships are now well underway with heats in the men and women’s Constant Weight, No Fins category already comple...
Yellowtail? I push back the bushes and stare across the small bay. Behind me Hardy Jones is cautioning to be quiet. The bay is blood red. Literall...
"Do you know budding eco-warrior? What about a future naturalist or marine biologist?"
Humpback whales are just one of the 27 different species of cetaceans--whales and dolphins--that frequent the Santa Barbara Channel. Of the many cetac...
The best way to photograph humpbacks with still cameras is unquestionably to free dive. But it's extremely difficult to shoot motion picture film free...
"Every day dozens of ships, carrying cargo, crews, even passengers, are picking their way carefully along Somalia's coastline, attempting to move from...
"Continuing our scout of the Indian Ocean for an upcoming documentary, I've left the Maldives for the East coast of Africa. During the next two-plus w...
To the west, a damp sunset struggled against rain clouds to offer a few moments of crimson color before dissolving against gray shadows. It was a poig...
The shark came from down-current and followed the edge of the drop-off toward the smell of bait. I waited next to a large purple tube sponge as Stuart...
"Explore a great new virtual world for children that’s not only fun for them to play with but educational as well."
Jonathan Bird’s Blue World received a 2010 New England Emmy Award for the segment Aquarist for a Day, where series host Jonathan Bird spends the day a...
"'The State of the Planet’s Oceans,'Journey to Planet Earth, will be broadcast on PBS on March 18, 2009 at 8 p.m."
"On a blustery spring afternoon in late April of 2000, Captain Keith Brovold spotted a pod of Killer Whales porpoising through the water, almost a mil...
"The Learning from the Sea blog features articles about life on the Turks and Caicos Islands and the environmental issues the islands face."
"An underground movement to end society's addiction to the use of single use bags will take to the streets on Tuesday, March 30th, with a 1 p.m. march...
"A new ecological sustainability educational resource."
Our first filming expedition for Denizens of the Deep was to the Sea of Cortez to film Humboldt Squid. This was a difficult and exciting sequence to f...
The rising sun revealed an ancient, rust-stained, 170-foot fishing boat with an unhealthy list to port. Covering the deck and clinging to every possib...
Today, sport divers travel to all corners of the globe searching for exciting encounters with sharks. The greatest of ocean predators are now featured...
The ocean was perfectly still on a cold, moonless night in February. As our small boat rounded the west end of California's Catalina Island we could s...
"It’s been a great five weeks to date, spent the holidays far south in Marguerite Bay…"
"COSEE Networked Ocean World is very pleased to announce the launch of our new biweekly Podcast: Ocean Gazing."
We slipped off the Undersea Hunter's skiff two miles south of the Nigali Pass and began the long swim along the outside edge of the reef. At sixty fee...
"Proving that despite the weeks and months I've spent recently in Antarctica that I still have a great affection for all climates, with a giant soft-s...
The introduction of the ElectroLung during the late 1960s seemed to herald a revolution within the sport diving industry. But after a few short years ...
As I was compiling the images for this edit, I poured over probably ten thousand photographs. The subjects ranged from surfing to celebrity portraitur...
For most of my filmmaking career I've worked behind the camera, making documentary television and large format films that focus primarily on marine wi...
Completely out of film and nearly out of air. It's still happening, but I have to leave. I check my pressure gauge - 400 psi. Enough to get back to th...
The ground was as flat as a dry lake bed, but it was hardly dry. One hundred and twenty feet beneath the Atlantic I knelt down and scooped up a handfu...
Filming squid on those cold winter nights more than three years ago had been uncomfortable and fun. It was sometimes fun because it was uncomfortable....
When adjusted for inflation, the First Annual International Shark Tagging Competition cost more than a million dollars to produce. The scope and splen...
Pierre is a brilliant, innovative director and a good friend. But in 1979 he hatched a surprisingly bad idea. He had contracted with the, then infan...
Last week I answered the phone to hear a voice from the past. The voice belonged to an old friend named Stu Goodman who, in the spring of 1978, produ...
The rosy glow of dawn spread from the eastern horizon and spilled across a placid Caribbean Sea like brake fluid tipped from a can. The sun ushered i...
Three of us waited on the bottom for the shark to come rushing out. Chip Matheson was to my left kneeling behind a rock. I could see that his hand was...
"The Silver Shark Festival is held annually with a view to popularizing underwater art and to engage the public in solving environmental problems."
"We're just wrapping up the editing of a beautiful, provocative film about Southern Louisiana - 'SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories' - about man's relation...
"Songs in the Key of Sea combines singer Kimberly Ford's passionate love of jazz and the ocean."
From where I rested on the ledge I could see Stan Waterman one hundred feet away filming a manta as it gracefully revolved around him. He hung in open...
The moon hid in the shadow of the Earth and the tide ran full and hard. A south wind began building just before sunset and by dark it raged against t...
"In his 20 minute film, Surfing Dolphins, filmmaker Greg Huglin crosses the liquid line that separates us from them. It’s a stunning labor of love—fo...
"In November 2008, six aquanauts will venture into the Aquarius undersea laboratory to live for eight days underwater."
"Are you or your colleagues interested in gaining first-hand research experience on the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary's research vessel Sh...
"An advanced breathing apparatus that mimics the efficiency, simplicity, and durability of the gill-swim bladder found in fish could greatly improve h...
"Out of more than 200 films entered Terra Antarctica - about our 2008 exploration of the Antarctic Peninsula by sea kayak, foot and small plane - was ...
Fifty-two degrees. That's what my dive computer read as I ponderously swam over the field of tube anemones. But my computer has always read two degree...
"The movie is a Trojan horse: an exceptionally well-made documentary that unfolds like a spy thriller, complete with bugged hotel rooms, clandestine d...
The reef was named Mount Mutiny after the infamous command of Captain William Bligh. Set adrift in a launch by mutineers of the sailing vessel Bounty,...
It was the summer of 1967. I was swimming through the golden twilight in a kelp forest at the southern end of San Clemente Island. Jim Nerison was ten...
I'd been diving for two years before I took an instructor training course in 1968. I was eighteen. An instructor-training course wasn't much in those ...
"Seahorses have been celebrated in art, literature and mythology for centuries, so you’d think we know a lot about them."
The tiny summit of the seamount was alive with sea snakes. I could see dozens of them in almost any direction I looked and in some places their densit...
I'd been looking forward to this trip for more than 25 years, ever since I first heard Howard and others talk about the Revillagigedo Islands. San Ben...
Doug Perrine, Michele, and I slipped off the side of Doug’s Boston Whaler and dropped down into the clear Hawaiian water. After a few seconds of swimm...
I’ve only seen two tiger sharks, and I saw them both on the same shark dive. I was diving with Aqua-Trek Beqa, in Pacific Harbor, Fiji where we’d gone...
"Dive Photo Guide is proud to announce the guidelines for the monthly Underwater Photography Contest Series. The contests are free to enter and each m...
"Ocean Wonders Productions and Sam's Tours Palau have announced an exciting 7-day underwater video workshop for five guests."
On a calm foggy night in October hundreds of blue sharks, thresher sharks, swordfish and other great fish swam north and south on courses which would ...
There is a feeling among many wildlife enthusiasts that whales and dolphins are universally benevolent creatures; that their massive brains (in some s...
"Like so many of this planet's most beautiful wild places the Galapagos Islands are at risk today of being loved to death."
Falling. The electrical cable of my surface supplied movie lights snakes by a few feet away as I descend. Forty feet below the surface I begin to see ...
Professional fishery is in many sea areas a serious ecological threat to the maritime environment.
"Last week, a Brazilian judge annulled the Abrolhos Marine Park Buffer Zone, just one year after is creation."
"A landmark agreement has been reached to end high seas bottom trawling, one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices, in nearly a quarter of...
"A long-awaited report by the United Nations shows the need for an international moratorium on bottom trawling and other destructive fishing practices...
Washington D.C.
Saturday Evening, March 7 –
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
"The U.S. Armed Forces disposed of chemical weapons in the ocean from World War I through 1970. At that time, it was thought that the vastness of oce...
"The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today reinstated the massive human rights claim brought by the people of the island of Bougainville against London-b...
"Eating fish imported from poor African countries can help rather than harm those economies according to new research by scientists at the UN Food and...
"Fishing industry lines accidentally catch so many seabirds and turtles that their populations are being threatened."
"Reef fish and other marine species can breathe easier with the introduction of a fishing ban around Apo Reef, the largest coral reef in the Philippin...
"Appearing in United States District Court, a representative of Danaos entered guilty pleas to two counts – a felony charge of obstruction of a Coast...
"The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) celebrated the first certified-sustainable tuna products to reach the market following MSC certification of the ...
"The California Fish and Game Commission has voted to select a preferred proposal for a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) along California's ce...
"A team of scientists have found that the economic damages from hurricanes have increased in the U.S. over time due to greater population, infrastruct...
"An international team of scientists and teachers has sailed from Punta Arenas, Chile for a two-week, U.S. National Science Foundation-sponsored resea...
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published a final rule in the Federal Register prohibiting the harvesting of krill in the Exclusi...
"NOAA’s Fisheries Service is seeking public comment on a proposed rule to expand critical habitat for the endangered leatherback sea turtle."
"Years of effort by NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard will pay off this weekend when, for the first time in the United States, ship traffic lanes will be ...
"The American Cetacean Society has been without an Executive Director for over 15 years. The President and Board have been filling the role in the in...
"Creating 'national parks of the sea' may be the only effective way to reverse trends that have left 76 percent of world fish stocks fully- or over-ex...
"The European Commission has adopted an Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union."
The NOAA Fisheries Service cautions that everyone needs to keep a safe and appropriate distance from all marine mammals and not interfere with their a...
"With populations increasing around the globe in recent decades, no one would be surprised by an increase in the amount of noise produced in terrestri...
"The fourth annual Ocean Revolution celebration will be held at Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz on June 14, to celebrate World Ocean Day."
"On July 9, 2009, the Senate Appropriations Committee provided $60 million for the Water Power Research and Development program at the Department of E...
"Today the California Fish & Game Commission adopted a landmark plan for marine protected areas to protect the scenic coastline and rich marine habita...
"Filmmaker Chris Palmer says we need to re-examine why we force wild animals to perform."
"According to a new survey of people in high-risk hurricane areas one-third of residents said if government officials said they had to evacuate due t...
"Saltwater recreational fishermen have long expressed concerns about the data used to estimate the effects of recreational fishing on ocean resources ...
"A common spin in the right wing coverage of BP's oil spill is a gleeful suggestion that the gulf blowout is Obama's Katrina."
"The Governors of California, Oregon, and Washington today announced an historic partnership and action plan for ocean and coastal resource protection...
Presenting an extraordinary opportunity with an outstanding agenda, entertaining and enlightening activities for Industry professionals and the genera...
Read, watch and learn about the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and find out how you can help.
"The International Whaling Commission announced a draft proposal that would legalize commercial whaling for the first time in a generation."
Santa Barbara, Calif. (December 16, 2004). 6500 juvenile White Seabass from a Hubbs-Seaworld Hatchery Enhancement Program were released into the Paci...
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