Stories tagged "ocean"

Scientists using DNA testing have confirmed the second-known instance of "virgin birth" in a shark -- a female Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit that produced a baby without a male shark.

The number of polluted "dead zones" in the world's oceans is rising fast and coastal fish stocks are more vulnerable to collapse than previously feared.

Last week it was a plan to save the world. This week, Google is helping to make people realize why the world needs saving.

Scientists have a new idea for desalination where you need it: Re-invent mothballed ships as portable plants.

But beneath the waves, scientists have uncovered an alarming secret. They have found streams of gas bubbling up from the seabed around the island of Ischia. 'The waters are like a Jacuzzi - there is so much carbon dioxide fizzing up from the seabed,' said

Story and Information - Icebergs - Iceberg watching in Newfoundland and Labrador

Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one few scientists have ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Visit the site in safety through this extraordinary photograp

Shortly after school started this year, Thiells Elementary School teacher Amy Becker was working with her fourth-grade students on their map skills when one child asked why she wasn't mentioning the fifth ocean. The fifth ocean?

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A new report has determined current measures to prevent and reduce ocean debris are inadequate and the problem will likely worsen.