Global Eco Watch: Scientists map transport of fresh water in seas of the Arctic Ocean

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Carbon as old as 8,000 years found in deepest blue hole

Finding to help study carbon cycling and potential mechanisms controlling it 

Scientists set to explore 100,000 year-old ocean under Antarctic ice

The 45-member team hopes to find clues of evolution and mobility of marine life

Arctic sea ice cover hits its worst record for 2018

It is the sixth lowest ice cover ever, says NASA

Great Pacific Garbage Patch ‘much larger’ than earlier estimated

The garbage patch is largely made up of tiny bits of plastic trapped by ocean currents

A crab’s coup strategy

Control reproduction of competing species

Coconut cousins

DNA analysis shows coconuts have two different origins

Noxious ways?

Pollution from Africa and Indonesia reaches Indian Ocean region in monsoon transition periods

The saga of Diego Garcia's Chagossian evacuees

How Diego Garcia became a US military base

Scientists project path of radiation plume from Japan's nuclear reactors

Dead fish litter seashore in Qatar

Cyclone Yaas is the 96th tropical cyclone to strike Odisha in 130 years

Balasore was the site for landfall for 28 cyclones in that period

With leaking ship breaking apart, Mauritius heading for ‘catastrophe’

When it breaks, the MV Wakashio could leak 2,500 tonnes more, of oil into the ocean

Recent rains due to western disturbances pointer to greater climate malaise

While it has rained heavily in certain districts, there has been none in others

Renewable energy use is growing, but at a slow pace

New report notes that renewable energy is mostly being used in the power sector

Crust falls apart

2004 megaquake fractured the Indo-Australian plate of Earth

Full steam ahead

Geothermal power is sparkling clean

Protecting turtles

MoU to safeguard the dwindling number of turtles on the anvil in India

Cloud over the haze

UNEP rushes in where fools fear to tread. Cheap publicity or bad politics?

History in a sheet of sand

Ocean fertilization picked apart

Deforestation in Maritime Continent may make El Nino events more complex and harder to predict

Central Pacific type El Nino events can increase by 11.7%, La Nina events by 14.6%

Hurricane Lee: 144,000 people stranded without power in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia

Hurricane Lee started as a tropical depression in the central Atlantic Ocean on September 5, 2023. On September 7, it intensified into a Category …

Fossil-sorting robot to make it easier to study oceans, climate

New tech can automate sorting, manipulating and identifying microscopic marine fossils

Global Eco Watch: Mauritius declares environmental emergency

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