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![ALASKA, UNITED STATES - 2012/01/01: Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeching in Icy Strait near Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)]()
Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in Alaskan waters
“It really feels like another false solution.”
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Violent ‘storms’ hidden under Antarctica’s ice could be speeding its decline
When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away at the continent's rapidly degrading ice shelves.
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![An Antarctic glacier in the Southern Ocean is seen at dusk.]()
The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive ‘burp.’
When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.
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Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’
A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.
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The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.
Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.
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What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like?
From deep-sea mining to climate change, this Indigenous woman sees a better future for the world's oceans.
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The oceans just hit an ominous milestone
A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries."
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A fiber optic cable spied on Greenland’s glaciers. It found an alarming problem.
By analyzing light shining through the same kind of cable that brings the internet into homes, researchers have helped explain why the island's ice — which could add 23 feet to sea levels — is in such rapid decline.
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![A sailing ship is seen in a harbor surrounded by lush palm trees and mountains on a sunny, idyllic day]()
![A sailing ship is seen in a harbor surrounded by lush palm trees and mountains on a sunny, idyllic day]()
American Samoa says no to deep-sea mining. The Trump administration might do it anyway.
The CEO of a seabed mining startup says the decision about mining leases will be made in Washington, D.C.
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![A boat of researchers on the sea in Antarctica surrounded by ice]()
Antarctica is in extreme peril
"Abrupt changes" threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, a new study finds.
