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2	Tracking Ocean Sulfur Could Help Test Gaia Hypothesis By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Geologists at the University of Maryland have published research that could help prove or disprove Gaia theory — the notion that the Earth is one single self-regulating system. The concept dates from the 70s and was init... 0 Published 8 days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	The Seven Weirdest Creatures Under the Sea [Video] If you're looking for a good fright, forget about going to see a horror movie, or wandering through a cemetery in the middle of the night. Just flip on the National Geographic channel and find yourself a g... 0 Published 15 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Titanic's First Explorer [Video] After sinking, the RMS Titanic lay undisturbed beneath 12,000 feet of freezing North Atlantic water for years, but in 1985 its watery tomb was finally breached by another marquee vessel—the crown pri... 0 Published 40 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Chinese Deep Sea Sub Will Plunder the Ocean Floor for Mineral Riches [Monster Machines] While it may not be able to reach the same seven-mile mark as James Cameron's deep-sea vessel, the Jiaolong manned submersible could provide far greater returns. More » ... 0 Published 55 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
2	Some Corals May Adapt to Warming Seas By Dennis Normile, ScienceNOW Pictures of ghostly white coral colonies bleached by elevated sea temperatures have become symbols of the effects of global warming. Now there is a glimmer of hope that at least some corals may be more resilient than previou... 0 Published 72 days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Researchers Discover the Dolphin Handshake [Video] Marine biologists have been recording the "signature" whistles of captive dolphins for decades but have never been sure of their function. However a new study suggests that these personalized calls are in... 0 Published 82 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Google Street View Is Coming to the Great Barrier Reef [Google] Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the largest natural coral formation on Earth and you'll soon be able to see it in all its glory—from your desk. More » 0 Published 91 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	What the Hell Did Researchers Pull from the Depths of New Zealand's Seas? [Wtf] No, this photo hasn't been 'shopped. You are looking at a specimen from a barely-known and even-more-rarely-seen group of "Supergiant" amphipods—crustaceans that grow twenty times the size of their r... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How to Get to the Seafloor Without Holding Your Breath [Design] Before we had ALVIN—or proper submarines for that matter—the best way to get to the seafloor was by using a diving bell. Originally made from recycled church bells, these diving apparatuses pro... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
1	Photo: The Bounty of Species in a Single Scoop of Seafloor Mud A mere handful of seafloor mud may contain as many species as are found in a square meter of tropical rainforest. The fantastic assemblage seen above was gathered from a single scoop of mud, about 2 inches deep and 5 inches across. “It’s easy... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Scientists Discover Dolomite in Coral—The Search for Queen Bee Continues [Science] Dolomite—the mineral, not Rudy Ray Moore—is found in abundance in fossilized coral but virtually never in modern reefs. For more than a hundred years, scientists have searched for it but withou... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Next Time You're Drowning, You'd Better Hope One of These Is Nearby [Video] Dragging a body any distance is tough enough on land, much less while swimming. And the faster you land that person, the more likely you are to resuscitate him. Unfortunately, most conventional life-saving... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Photographer Uses Google+ to Reunite a Drowned Camera with Its Owner [Cameras] The camera you see here just spent a year at the bottom of Deep Bay but is now home thanks to the efforts of a nature photographer and the power of social networks. Here's how he did it. More &raqu... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Autonomous Wave Gliders Attempt Historic Solo Pacific Crossing [Science] As NASA prepares to launch the Curiosity rover to explore Mars at the end of the month, a small fleet of Wave Gliders, autonomous sea-faring vehicles, have set sail on an equally audacious journey—sw... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A 4,600 Gallon per Minute Oil Skimmer Just Won the $1.4 Million X Challenge [Video] Current industry-standard oil recovery equipment pulls roughly 1,000 gallons a minute but, as the Deep Water Horizon incident showed, that simply isn't good enough. So Wendy Schmidt—as in wife of e... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Four-Inch Long Amoebas Found in Mariana Trench [Science] What're ten centimeters across, live 6 miles under water, and are incredibly toxic? The Xenophyophores of the Mariana Trench—the largest individual cells in existence More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Bacteria Make Hydrogen Fuel From Water Most of the renewable energy sources that are under consideration involve an obvious source of energy — light, heat, or motion. But this is the second time this year there has been a paper that has focused on a less obvious source: the potenti... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Digitized Deep-Ocean Expedition Discovers Surprising Oasis of Life Marine biologists have discovered a never-before-seen duo of organisms colonizing a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Atlantic Ocean. “[T]he iconic symbol of Pacific vents is the tubeworm, while the iconic symbol of Atlantic vents is the vent shrimp R... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Expedition Helps Build Network of Ocean Sensors By Olivia Solon, Wired UK A 274-foot research vessel — named Thomas G Thompson — has just completed a Visions ‘11 expedition to aid the installation of a whole host of web-enabled sensors that will monitor the ocean in the Pacific Nort... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Video: Dolphins Blasting Into School of Fish Dolphins and gannets blast through a shimmering, pulsing vortex of fish in these up-close glimpses of an underwater buffet. The video was taken by biologist Robin Vaughn during her graduate studies at Texas A&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Can the World's Largest Undersea Observatory Find a Kracken in the Next 25 Years? [Video] The worst part about exploring the sea floor is that there's water everywhere. It's dark, cold and not terribly compatible with breathing. But with Neptune Canada sprawled along 500 miles of the sea floor... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Sea Turtle GPS Shows Ocean-Spanning Leatherback Buffet The fact that leatherback turtles swim thousands of miles is driven home beautifully in this new map of their sophisticated, ocean-spanning movements. Between 2000 and 2007, biologists attached GPS transmitters to 126 leatherbacks nesting in Indonesia, ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	An Underwater Viewing Craft For the Rich Beatle Lover [Travel] When exploring our Earth's oceans, one should let the creatures of the deep know that you have some class. While it may fall just shy of winning any beauty pageants, the MSV Explorer is cool enough to des... 1 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
4	Explore the Deep Seas With Google Oceans Update Thanks to a Google Earth update containing two decades of data from seafloor-scanning expeditions, armchair explorers can take a virtual submarine ride into Earth’s last frontier. Oceanographers say that more is known about the surface of Mars than... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
14	Giant Squid Could Become Ocean’s Panda Bear By Duncan Geere, Wired UK A group of biologists are proposing that the giant squid be adopted as a mascot for the conservation of the world’s oceans, like the panda is for wildlife conservation. The WWF̵... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
3	Waste Slime Turns Jellyfish Into Ecological Vampires That waste is useful is one of the animal kingdom’s cardinal principles. One creature’s discards are another’s dinner, and so continues the circle of life. But jellyfish, it would seem, bend the rule. Their waste is generally inedible, ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
1	Exclusive Excerpt: Sex, Drugs and Sea Slime Among the organisms of the oceans that are armed and dangerous, there is one elite group of jetsetters that grow fast and are blessed with brains, looks, and a talent for disguise. Though most don’t live long, they can react with lightning-quick speed an... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
5	Video: World’s Biggest Gathering of Whale Sharks To see a single whale shark — the world’s largest fish, a solitary behemoth that can grow to school bus size — is a rare experience. Seeing hundreds gathered in one place is unprecedented. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	How To Measure a Shark (Safely) [Monster Machine] Measuring a shark. You could do it by catching one, and holding up a tape measure from its fin to its head, without harming it or yourself. Or you could use a camera. That's what Dr Mark Meekan and Gabrie... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
6	Salt Water Shows Promise as Battery Juice By John Timmer, Ars Technica When people think of harvesting energy from the oceans, it’s typically in the form of wave or tidal power, in which the motion of the water drives the production of electricity. A paper in Nano Letters suggests an al... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	We're Losing a Lot of Nitrogen From the Oceans and Nobody Knows Where It's Going [Science] Nitrogen is one of the core components of all living things. But as of late, more nitrogen has been leaving the world's oceans than has been entering, leaving researchers perplexed as to where it's ending... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
20	Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of Plastic Joining the Laysan albatross as icons of ocean plastic pollution are sea turtles, which consume bellyfuls of debris while swimming through Earth’s five great ocean garbage patches. Pictured above are the stomach contents of a juvenile sea turtle ac... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	An Unknown Ocean: The Other Rhythms of Life Circadian rhythms are well known to biologists, with hundreds of studies analyzing fundamental links between sunlight, cellular clocks, hormones and metabolism function. But for the first few billion years of Earthly life, it wasn’t just solar cyc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Anna Zhou - BP Oil Spill Killing Dolphins? The BP OIl Spill that occurred last year may finally be showing the true consequences of what had happened. 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
0	Anna Zemblicka - The Little Mermaid Ariel Some people would change their human identity with Ariel with no doubt. 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
1	Deep-Sea BP Spill Disperants Didn’t Degrade for Months Nearly 3 million liters (some 771,000 gallons) of a chemical dispersant ejected into oil and gas from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill last spring and summer lingered until at least September, a new study shows. The chemicals moved in concert with plume... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
5	8 Beautiful Bioluminescent Creatures From the Sea << Previous \| Next >> ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
21	The Mass Extinction of Scientists Who Study Species We are currently in a biodiversity crisis. A quarter of all mammals face extinction, and 90 percent of the largest ocean fish are gone. Species are going extinct at rates equaled only five times in the history of life. But the biodiversity crisis we ar... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	How Were Undersea Cables Laid Back in Ye Olde Days? [Cables] Compare and contrast. This monochrome photo, above, is how submarine cables were laid back in the day (in 1906, to be exact). It's not much different from how companies like Cable&Wireless Worldwide and A... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Toxic Oceans May Have Poisoned Early Animals Soon after complex animals made their first great strides onto the stage of life, the oceans brewed up a toxic chemical mix that put the brakes on evolutionary innovation, suggests a paper in the Jan. 6 Nature. The culprits? Too little oxygen and too m... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Meda Ioana Balint - Black Sea Will Become the Dead Sea This article deals with the issue of pollution and the Black Sea. 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
18	Acidifying Oceans Could Upset Life’s Nitrogen Cycles An experimental simulation of near-future changes in ocean chemistry suggests that aquatic nitrogen cycles could be profoundly disrupted, altering the basic structure of Earth’s food webs. Nitrogen is one of life’s crucial elements, used by a... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Liam Moriarty - Global Warming’s Evil Twin The focus of attention at the U.N. climate summit in Cancun, Mexico is global warming caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But there’s another impact of high carbon levels that poses a whole different set of problems: it makes the ocean mo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
0	Daiva Ausenaite - To Eat or Not To Eat Fish. And Which? Commercial fishing worldwide is only aiming for big catches. It would be better to buy fish from organic farms.. 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
0	Jose Mendoza - The Pacific garbage patch affecting animals and nature in the foreground (with video) the problem of the stain of pollution and waste is growing every day more in the Pacific 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
4	Old, Ignored Records Yield 200 Years of Fish Population Data By digging up and poring over old books and records of Mediterranean marine life, scientists have filled a 200-year gap in fish population data. The data, generated from from naturalists’ accounts and fish market records published between 1818 and 2000... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	Percin Imrek - Saving the ocean - One island at a time - Part 1 Story of Greg Stone on his exploration trip to Phoenix Islands. 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
0	Percin Imrek - Saving the ocean - One island at a time - Part 2 Continuation of the story of Greg Stone. 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
0	Percin Imrek - Saving the ocean - One island at a time - Part 3 Last part of Greg Stone's story. 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details
0	Ali Shamaan - College of Higher Education Gets a Climate Research Centre Maldives College of Higher Education (MCHE) is to establish a climate research centre with assistance from South Asia Foundation. 0 Published 100+ days ago in Blogger - TH!NK ABOUT IT - TH!NK ABOUT IT -...: Profile, Details

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