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BBC News
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Two Russian mini-subs have made a test dive to the floor of the Arctic Ocean near Russia's most northerly islands.
The subs reached a depth of 1.3km (0.8 miles) at a point 87km north of the Franz Josef Land archipelago.
The dives were a trial run ah..
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The Register
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The Southern Ocean, one of the planet's biggest carbon sinks, is almost totally saturated, according to research published in the journal Science.
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) joined forces with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) a..
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USA Today
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Biologists tried unsuccessfully Thursday to use recorded siren songs of humpback whales to lure an injured female and her wounded calf from a shipping channel and back toward the Pacific Ocean 90 miles away.
When the researchers played the underwater r..
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National Geographic
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A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia, scientists report.
Researchers found the underground "ocean" while scanning seismic waves as they passed through Earth's interior.
But nob..
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BBC News
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Governments are being urged to agree measures for protecting open ocean and sea floor habitats at a major United Nations conservation meeting in Bonn.
Argentina and Brazil are among the countries objecting to proposals put forward at the Convention on..
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BBC News
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This is what the world may have looked like some 80 million years ago, at the time of the dinosaurs.
The climate was very hot, the Earth's ice sheets had melted, and sea levels were 170m (558ft) higher than today.
The estimates could help researcher..
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BBC News
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A sea-going robotic glider that harvests heat energy from the ocean has been tested by US scientists.
The yellow, torpedo-shaped machine has been combing the depths of seas around the Caribbean since December 2007.
The team which developed the auton..
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BBC News
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Some coral reefs could be protected from the impacts of climate change by an "ocean thermostat", a study says.
Researchers suggest that natural processes appear to be regulating sea surface temperatures in a region of the western Pacific Ocean.
Reef..
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BBC News
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Scientists have painted the first detailed picture of Atlantic ocean currents crucial to Europe's climate.
Using instruments strung out across the Atlantic, a UK-led team shows that its circulation varies significantly over the course of a year.
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BBC News
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One of Earth's most important absorbers of carbon dioxide (CO2) is failing to soak up as much of the greenhouse gas as it was expected to, scientists say.
The decline of Antarctica's Southern Ocean carbon "sink" - or reservoir - means that atmospheric..
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CNN
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Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have mined what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean. Estimated value: $500 million.
A jet cha..
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SF Gate
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A review of existing computer climate models suggests that global warming could transform the North Pole into an ice-free expanse of open ocean at the end of each summer by 2100, scientists are to report today.
The researchers said that out of the 15..
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Live Science
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Deep below the ocean's surface, blue whales are singingóand for the first time, scientists think they know why. Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography recorded the sounds and say they offer new insight into the behavior of the passenger..
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