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A team of marine researchers discovers over 1,300 underwater rings in the Mediterranean and solves the mystery after years of ...

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In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

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Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

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The biological carbon pump — the natural process of marine organisms and fish drawing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in the ocean — has the potential to remove roughly $1 trillion per year ...

The International Seabed Authority will convene in July to discuss this and other issues. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...