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Wendy Heller | Feb 15, 2008 2:00 AM
Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed global map of human impacts on the seas
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Matt J. Weiss | Feb 15, 2008 2:00 AM
Just 15 miles off Florida's coast, the world's most powerful sustained ocean current - the mighty Gulf Stream - rushes by at nearly 8.5 billion gallons per second. And it never stops. To scientists, it represents a tantalizing possibility: a new, plentiful and uninterrupted source of clean energy.
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Matt J. Weiss | Feb 15, 2008 2:00 AM
Coast has seen deadly drop-off in oxygen levels for sea life
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Matt J. Weiss | Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM
Australia has "shocking" photographic evidence to back an international legal bid to stop Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters, the government says.
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Matt J. Weiss | Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM
In 2008 the secret life of one of the Earth's largest and most mysterious creatures, the whale shark, will be laid bare for the first time when some of the gentle giants off Western Australia's coral coast at Ningaloo are equipped with 'black box flight recorders'.
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Matt J. Weiss | Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM
Compiling massive amounts of data from professional literature and research on marine ecosystems, the researchers created the first map displaying the extent of human impact on marine ecosystems
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Matt J. Weiss | Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM
Two new species of wobbegongs, otherwise known as carpet sharks, have been found in Western Australian waters.
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Wendy Heller | Feb 14, 2008 2:00 AM
The small Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has become a global conservation leader by establishing the world's largest marine protected area
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Wendy Heller | Feb 13, 2008 2:00 AM
The growing global appetite for cheap farmed salmon is imperiling wild fish populations across the planet, scientists warn
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Wendy Heller | Feb 13, 2008 2:00 AM
A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based
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