Cameron’s voyage was a source of genuine wonder … so why the sinking feeling?
Mark Thiessen/EPA
Today as I ate lunch, Titanic, Terminator and Avatar director James Cameron was at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean. We know this for a couple of reasons. Not only did he…
Bacteria that live in seabeds could provide vital knowledge about the global carbon cycle. The bacteria deep in the ocean…
By altering the corrugated surface of the ocean floor, it should be possible to hide floating objects from passing waves…
The University of Queensland has announced that it will team with Google to undertake a pioneering study of the composition…
Deep ocean sensors, called gliders, have revealed new information about the journey of water from the Bass Strait to the…
Scientists have discovered a new species of sea snake in the Gulf of Carpenteria, northern Australia, which is unique in…
Big fish, like coral trout, snappers and sweetlips, prefer sheltering under flat table corals rather than branching corals…
Researchers have developed a way to identify conservation hotspots in the world oceans. These are areas where overfishing…
Some parts of the world’s ocean have warmed by .5 to 1.5 degrees celsius over the last century, with some areas seeing a…
One hundred grams of farmed prawns can have a carbon footprint equivalent to burning 90 liters of gasoline, and 10 times…
An increase of just 2 degrees centigrade could devastate “anti-freeze” fish in the Southern Oceans. Nototheniods is a species…
Ocean hotspots are pushing ocean currents beyond their usual boundaries. The hotspots are generated by wind systems, and…
Ice caps and glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica shed 150 billion tons of ice annually from 2003 to 2010 according to the…
Powerful currents around Antarctica caused the earth to spin slightly faster in November 2009 - by about 0.1 milliseconds…
Warmer temperatures mean more female than male turtles, but it’s not all good news for the guys.
Dave Scriven
Many species have dubious futures in the face of climate change. But sea turtles have a particularly pressing problem: their sex is determined by temperature. Australia has ecologically and culturally…
Using state-of-the-art mapping technology, scientists from the University of New Hampshire have mapped all 400,000 square…
How many jellyfish are there really?
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It seems that every day you read in the scientific literature and global media about the human destruction of our oceans, through impacts such as climate change, eutrophication, overfishing and urban sprawling…
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have completed a worldwide study of ocean acidification, or…
Humpback populations in the Indian ocean show few common themes in their songs, indicating a limited exchange between different…
Sex plays a much more important role in the reproduction of vitally important seagrasses than previously thought, according…