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![bleached white coral reefs are visible below a surfline with a moutain in the distance]()
![bleached white coral reefs are visible below a surfline with a moutain in the distance]()
Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record hot streak
A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years — and pinpoints why.
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![A right whale emerges from Atlantic Ocean off East Coast.]()
![A right whale emerges from Atlantic Ocean off East Coast.]()
Biden administration gives up on lower ocean speed limits to protect right whales
With only 370 remaining, the North Atlantic species is nearing extinction.
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![French surfer Joan Duru is glimpsed through the waves while competing in the 2024 Olympic Games in in Teahupo'o, French Polynesia.]()
![French surfer Joan Duru is glimpsed through the waves while competing in the 2024 Olympic Games in in Teahupo'o, French Polynesia.]()
Saving the surf is a climate solution
The surf breaks that create epic waves store millions of tons of carbon. Protecting them from climate change protects a sport and the planet.
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![Floating three levels of machinery on ocean.]()
![Floating three levels of machinery on ocean.]()
What’s missing from Biden’s offshore drilling ban? The western Gulf of Mexico.
That's where the U.S. gets most of its offshore oil.
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![A diver is shown alongside a coral reef many times taller and wider than he is.]()
![A diver is shown alongside a coral reef many times taller and wider than he is.]()
The business case for saving coral reefs
A growing body of research shows the nation’s coral reefs protect $1.8 billion in economic assets each year and should be protected for our sake and their own.
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![Activists from Greenpeace stand next to a ship called the Arctic Sunrise. In the foreground, an activist stands with her back to us, and her shirt reads Stop Deep Sea Mining.]()
![Activists from Greenpeace stand next to a ship called the Arctic Sunrise. In the foreground, an activist stands with her back to us, and her shirt reads Stop Deep Sea Mining.]()
Norway hits the brakes on mining the Arctic Ocean — for now
The debate over deep-sea mining exposes a contradiction between the country’s proud culture of environmental stewardship and its dependence on the extraction of the ocean’s riches.
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![metal rings float on a sparkling blue sea, they are cages for a fish farm]()
![metal rings float on a sparkling blue sea, they are cages for a fish farm]()
How Trump could bring fish farms to the Gulf of Mexico
"If we care about climate change, we shouldn't have them in our oceans."
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![Hurricane Milton satellite photo October 8 2024]()
![Hurricane Milton satellite photo October 8 2024]()
How Hurricane Milton exploded into an ‘extraordinary’ storm
Milton's wind speeds skyrocketed by 90 mph in 24 hours. It’s one of the fastest intensification events scientists have ever witnessed in the Atlantic.
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![A scuba diver photographs two rows of bright white coral.]()
![A scuba diver photographs two rows of bright white coral.]()
For Florida corals, unprecedented marine heat prompts new restoration strategy — on shore
North America’s only barrier reef is withering from heat and disease. Can efforts to preserve and propagate the corals at land-based facilities save them?
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![An underwater photo of rocky nodes on the sea floor]()
![An underwater photo of rocky nodes on the sea floor]()
Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
