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Tracking sea turtles is a long, slow process that just might keep them alive
This summer’s hatchlings won’t be back on land for 30 years. It’ll take at least that long to know how global warming is changing them.
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![The main recharge Dyke for the Coachella Valley on August 10, 2009, in Coachella Valley, California. This dyke serves to maintain the Aquifer upon which Coachella depends, adding water to it protects the water source and protects the surrounding infrastructure from possible subsidence.]()
![The main recharge Dyke for the Coachella Valley on August 10, 2009, in Coachella Valley, California. This dyke serves to maintain the Aquifer upon which Coachella depends, adding water to it protects the water source and protects the surrounding infrastructure from possible subsidence.]()
Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise
Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
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![a man crouches on a rock in front of pieces of a glacier, which are drifting out to sea]()
![a man crouches on a rock in front of pieces of a glacier, which are drifting out to sea]()
When will a vital system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean collapse? Depends on whom you ask.
New research suggests the currents that help shape the climate may be weakening more slowly than thought.
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The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica
Scientists find that ammonia wafting from all that guano kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction.
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![Coral on Moore Reef is visible in Gunggandji Sea Country off coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022.]()
![Coral on Moore Reef is visible in Gunggandji Sea Country off coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022.]()
Despite global opposition, Trump just fast-tracked deep-sea mining
The move opens the door for companies tired of waiting for permission to scrape the ocean floor.
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The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump.
Inside the little-understood fight between deep sea miners and Indigenous advocates for the ocean.
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![Two boats on water divided by buoys.]()
![Two boats on water divided by buoys.]()
A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump’s plan to fast-track industrial fish farming in the Gulf
Advocates for marine health say aquaculture "has no place in U.S. ocean waters."
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![Digital illustration of vintage illustrations of a blue whale and a fin whale with a sound wave separating them]()
![Digital illustration of vintage illustrations of a blue whale and a fin whale with a sound wave separating them]()
What ‘the world’s loneliest whale’ may be telling us about climate change
A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath the waves.
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Beneath Greenland’s ice lies a climate solution — and a new geopolitical battleground
Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold on the market?
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![View of an estuary going through Gaza.]()
![View of an estuary going through Gaza.]()
Environmentalists in Israel and Palestine fight to save cross-border water resources
"The health of Palestinians affects the health of Israelis and vice versa. And the best example is water."
