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Ocean warming can trigger viral outbreaks within corals

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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The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is carrying a massive bloom of brown seaweed toward Florida and the Caribbean

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…

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Arctic’s peak ice cover has shrunk by an area larger than Egypt

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…

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A crucial date for deep-sea mining in the Pacific is just around the corner, but is the world ready?

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

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OPINION - I am incandescent about plans to strip mine the precious ocean floor

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.

Evening Standard

The untapped power of ocean winds – why New Zealand is looking offshore for future renewable energy

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.

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Seven escape injury in plane crash off WA coast

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.

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Deepest-dwelling fish ever seen is a ghostly snailfish spotted more than 27,000 feet beneath the ocean surface

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

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These 3 Stocks Lack the Flow of Making Long-Term Investments

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….

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Deep-sea mining: can it help solve our climate problems?

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

The Week

Michelle Lee the first woman to row the Pacific Ocean solo, unassisted, after 237 days at sea

Rowing through cyclones and trailed by sharks, this woman has just completed one of the world’s greatest marine journeys alone by crossing the Pacific Ocean unassisted and without stopping in 237 days.

ABC News

Solo rower reaches Aust after eight months in Pacific

Solo rower Michelle Lee set to arrive in Cairns after rowing for almost eight months across the Pacific Ocean.

The New Daily

Five hurricanes and 240 days later: Australian woman rows 14,000km solo across the Pacific

Michelle Lee, a 50-year-old massage therapist, reached the Queensland coast on Wednesday after leaving Mexico on 8 August

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WA lobster fishers call for respect as cargo ships allegedly run over fishing gear

Operators in WA's Western Rock Lobster fishery say they are losing significant amounts of catch and equipment due to cargo ships straying from established shipping lanes.

Bangkok Post

Oceanic ripples as our common heritage

There are currently three key issues pertaining to the marine environment: climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution. The world's oceans are affected by the degradation of the land, sea and air, which have enormous consequences for the well-being of all living beings, including marine life. The advent of a…

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Monsters or masters of the deep sea? Why the deepest of deep-sea fish aren't as scary as you might think

How deep can fish live in the ocean? That question has captivated me for more than a decade. But my research team’s discovery of the deepest sea fish, announced this week, might not be the final answer. There may be more. How deep – and how strange – remains open…

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NOAA: NJ wind farm may 'adversely affect,' not kill whales

A federal scientific agency says New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm may “adversely affect” whales and other marine mammals, but it won't seriously harm or kill them

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Angsana Velavaru, Maldives review: a new level of relaxation at ‘turtle island’

Just a tad bit more than a hop, skip and a jump, the journey to the private island of Angsana Velavaru in the Maldives’ South Nilandhe Atoll is an adventure in itself, culminating in a spectacular seaplane ride over the exquisite atolls.

Al Jazeera

Are storms getting more powerful and dangerous?

From Malawi to Mississippi, deadly cyclones are ravaging the planet. But scientists warn they could get even scarier.

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Soviet-era aircraft travelling below 500ft before crashing into ocean off Gold Coast, inquest finds

Investigators were not able to determine with certainty that Gold Coast pilot Martinus van Hattem was completing an aerobatic manoeuvre immediately before the fatal crash off South Stradbroke Island in 2019, but it was considered a possibility.

Miami Herald

Seaweed mass expands, reaches record tonnage in Florida

MIAMI — We already knew South Florida beaches were bracing for a surge of seaweed, but the mass of seaweed looming in the Atlantic Ocean is now officially record-breaking.

Space

Jupiter missions: Past, present and future

A rundown of every mission to Jupiter past to present, as well as the new ones on the horizon.

The Conversation

A professor is going to live in an underwater hotel for 100 days – here’s what it might do to his body

As nightmares go, being trapped in a small box deep underwater is probably high on many peoples’ lists. But one US professor is doing this on purpose. Joe Dituri, a former US navy diver and expert in biomedical engineering has been living in a 55 square meter space 30 feet…

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Melting ice may strangle ocean currents

Models show that currents could slow by more than 40 percent within 30 years, with potentially devastating effects

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