The Latest Breaking News from Ocean

A three-year study in the South Pacific has found evidence that ocean warming can trigger outbreaks of "dinoflagellate-infecting RNA viruses" that attack symbiotic algae inside corals. Read further on Dynamite News:

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An unwelcome visitor is headed for Florida and the Caribbean: huge floating mats of sargassum, or free-floating brown seaweed. Nearly every year since 2011, sargassum has inundated Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Florida coastlines in warm months, peaking in June and July. This brown tide rots on the beach, driving…

Sea ice covered 5.64 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean at the ice’s peak extent this year in early March. That’s almost 400,000 square miles less than the median coverage level at other March peaks between 1981 and 2010, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center at…

With applications set to open for companies to mine the depth of the Pacific ocean, leaders call for a suspension to the controversial practice.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve stumbled across on the internet recently? Mine is the Wikipedia page about the time Australia declared war on emus. And lost.

The latest synthesis report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it clear we need to prepare for intensifying impacts, while also cutting emissions dramatically.

A pilot and six passengers have escaped injury after their light plane crashed off the end of the runway into the ocean at a remote island off the WA coast.

The never-before-seen fish was spotted 5 miles below the ocean's surface in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench near Japan.

The U.S. economy faces a fresh bout of recessionary fears. Moreover, the water industry, facing several headwinds, is anticipated to be affected in the upcoming months. Against this backdrop, weak water stocks Middlesex Water (MSEX), Cadiz (CDZI), and Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT) might not be sound long-term investments. Read on….

A growing controversy is swirling around deep-sea mining, which aims to extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor.