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'The Great Barrier Reef is on a Knife Edge': Reef Faces Third Major Bleaching Event in Five Years
Hundreds of thousands of mussels that cooked to death off the New Zealand coast are likely casualties of the climate crisis.
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Government officials are offering an up to $20,000 reward for information that helps solve two brutal Florida dolphin murders.
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The world's oceans are moving faster, and researchers think it might be another sign of the climate crisis.
Only the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will get to play in Super Bowl 54 in Miami Sunday. But anyone can make a #SuperCoralPlay.
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Defenders of ocean habitats celebrated Friday after a federal court upheld a lower court ruling defending the right of the U.S. executive branch to set aside marine areas as national monuments.
Citing the authority found under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish marine national monuments, the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia sided against a lawsuit brought by large fishing industry interests that challenged President Barack Obama's designation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, which encompasses 4,913 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean off the nation's northeast coast, as a protected area.
First North Atlantic Right Whale Calf of the Season Spotted off Georgia Coast
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A photographer came across a strange sight when he walked along a Northern California beach last week: thousands of sausage-shaped, 10-inch worms stretching for miles down the beach.
'Zombie in the Water’: New Greenpeace Report Warns of Deadly Ghost Fishing Gear
A lot of the discussion around ocean plastic pollution focuses on consumer items like bottles, bags and straws. But a new Greenpeace report zeroes in on a different plastic threat: lost or abandoned fishing gear.
Discarded plastic fishing equipment, dubbed "ghost gear," is especially dangerous to marine life because it was designed to trap and kill it.
Ocean Cleanup Team Unveils Solar Powered 'Interceptor' to Collect Plastic in Rivers
The Dutch inventor behind the Ocean Cleanup is now looking to stop plastic pollution at the source.