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English seas get new marine conservation zones

Posted in Featured, Science on 22nd Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

The government has announced it will create 27 new marine conservation zones to protect wildlife in the seas around the English coast.

Construction of the SeaOrbiter slated for spring 2014

Posted in Featured, Science on 18th Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

It has been well over a decade since the SeaOrbiter was first dreamed up. Thirty years of research has gone into the project, and still it does not exist.

Can Marine Life Survive More Acid Oceans?

Posted in Science on 11th Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

As the seas absorb more carbon dioxide, their pH drops.

Pacific ocean now warming 15 times faster than in past 10,000 years

Posted in Science on 2nd Nov, 2013
by Alex Muller

A study finds the ocean is taking in heat at the most rapid rate in thousands of years, yet another indicator of global warming.