Eyes under water

Technology>> Ocean • Australia

A love affair with ocean

Book Atlantic: Great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories • Harper Collins • Rs 695

Google on sea

Inspired by the sea

Exhibition>> Marine world • the US

News Snippets

UN Ocean Conference: Experts call for ending policy blindspot to avert ‘ocean emergency’

Developing countries seek more funds; island nations team up against deep-sea mining  

Researchers identified over 5,500 new viruses in the ocean, including a missing link in viral evolution

RNA viruses can cause deadly diseases. But they also play a vital role in ecosystems because they can infect a wide array of organisms, including …

Oceans cool the planet by releasing short-lived halogens that contribute 8-10 per cent of cooling: Study

Cooling by halogens could increase to 18-31 per cent by 2100 which has not been accounted yet by climate models

Trials at sea

Book>> Round about the earth • by Joyce E Chaplin • Simon & Schuster • Rs 1,850

World Tuna Day 2021: Tuna conservation is in humanity’s interests

The conservation of tuna helps in improving the marine ecosystem; the long-term sustainability of tuna and its relatives can only come from …

Monster waves

Book>> The wave: in pursuit of the rogues, freaks and giants of the ocean • by Susan Casey, Doubleday • US $27

Sailing with buckets

Ocean sours

At current rate seawater will turn acidic by century end

The neglected sea

Book>> The ocean of life, the fate of man and sea • by Callum Roberts • Penguin • Rs 1,310

Why fish go crazy

Ocean acidification hampers brain chemistry

Get swayed

23 years of data shows wind speeds have increased

Ocean’s dramatic past

Zeroing in on the evolution of the North Atlantic

Sans O2

FROM THE BLURBS

UNGUIDED TOUR

The ancient mariners

Book>> Beyond The Blue Horizon • by Brian Fagan • US $10 • Bloomsbury

Indian Ocean island group chokes on 238 tonnes of plastic waste

It included about 25% single-use plastics, 373,000 toothbrushes and 977,000 shoes

Stockholm+50: Oceans on simmer

The world’s oceans will witness marine heatwaves, sea ice-free Arctic, severe cyclones

Diamonds are forever. But where do they come from? Watch

Do you know the diamond on your finger is most likely made recycled minerals by Earth below the ocean floor?  

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