13.04.2025
Noosfera: Ukrainian science breaking through the ice
In the icy heart of the Southern Ocean, where only the most resilient vessels dare to go, sails Ukraine’s RV Noosfera — a floating laboratory wrapped in steel and national pride...
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13.04.2025
Penguins of Antarctica — Guardians of Ice and Survival.
On the frozen edge of the world, where blizzards howl and temperatures plummet, live the true champions of survival —...
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25.11.2024
The Azores lead the way in protecting the North Atlantic Ocean with bold marine conservation efforts
In a groundbreaking move, the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago of nine volcanic islands, has introduced ambitious new legislation to establish...
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19.06.2024
Explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship found off Labrador’s south coast, says expedition
The Quest, which sank after striking ice in 1962, has been found intact, say explorers...
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19.04.2024
Enormous ancient sea reptile identified from amateur fossil find
Scientists have identified what was probably the largest marine reptile ever to swim in the seas - a creature longer than two, nose-to-nose buses. The creature lived around 202 million years ago alongside the dinosaurs. Its fossilised jawbone was found in 2016 by a fossil hunter on a beach in Somerset, UK. In 2020 a father and...
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28.01.2024
Multi-partner mapping effort reveals largest known deep-sea coral reef habitat
Covering 6.4 million acres, an area larger than Vermont, an underwater seascape of cold-water coral mounds offshore the southeast United States coast has been deemed the largest deep-sea coral reef habitat discovered to date, according to a paper recently published in the scientific journal GEOMATICS...
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01.12.2023
Scientists analyzed the state of the ocean over the past 200 years and gave a disappointing forecast for the future.
If we visually compare the volume of our planet with the separated volume of water in the world ocean, we...
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29.10.2023
This concept research yacht can collect marine debris and has a surprising power source.
A French ocean adventurer and his team have designed a yacht which he says can scoop up plastic garbage to stop it blighting the world’s oceans, and converts the same waste into fuel to help power the boat.
Yvan Bourgnon has spent his career racing sailing vessels around the globe as a competitive yachtsmen. Over the years, he said, his encounters with floating carpets of trash became more and more frequent...
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24.10.2023
An endangered whale species is speeding towards extinction
American conservationists are hoping a proposed federal rule change to expand speed restrictions for vessels along the US East Coast will save the marine giants, which number fewer than 350, from extinction...
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17.09.2023
First Look Ocean Explorers Rediscover Long-Lost Japanese WWII Vessel Akagi 18,000 Feet Below Ocean
In a monumental occasion for marine archaeology and world history, explorers aboard E/V Nautilus successfully completed the first deep-water visual dive to revisit the Second World War (WWII) Imperial Japanese Navy vessel, Akagi. Seen at a depth of 18,000 feet (5.5 kilometers) below the surface of the ocean...
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