The National Science Foundation has reversed its idiotic order in May to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
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A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters.
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Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.
'Coral reefs are often framed as ecosystems beyond saving. This research shows otherwise: we know where the hope is and what we need now is political will,' says one of the report's authors
Scattered throughout Hernando County, the Mermaid Tale Trail is a sprawling scavenger hunt made up of mermaid statues painted by local artists. The project was created to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, the famous Florida attraction where performers have staged underwater mermaid shows since 1947. The trail began with 26 statues unveiled in 2022 and has since…
The 13 winners of the 13th annual Photo Competition for United Nations World Oceans Day have been announced.
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The US administration is shutting down an important ocean research operation and removing its sensors from the water.
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An octopus about the size of a golf ball was first spotted in 2015 near Darwin Island. A new study gives it both a formal description and a name.
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at info@reasonstobecheerful.world and we just might feature it here. Filthy clean energy Denver’s goal is to reduce its greenhouse gases to zero by 2040, which means throwing everything it possibly can...
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A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of a poorly documented animal.
A beautiful and fascinating look at our planet in motion.
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Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at info@reasonstobecheerful.world and we just might feature it here. Catch-all Microplastics are nearly everywhere, including in about 69 percent of our clothing. When those clothes are washed, the machines discharge microplastics...
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In the summer of 1997, NOAA's underwater microphone network — a Cold War-era array of hydrophones originally built to track Soviet submarines and later repurposed to monitor earthquakes and whale migrations — picked up something strange off the coast of southern Chile. — Read the rest
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I have been seeing LinkedIn posts about Panthalassa’s wave-powered AI data-center concept recently, and the reaction they’ve been getting is familiar. Big funding round. AI power bottleneck. Ocean energy. No grid connection. No land constraint. Autonomous machines. A new category. It had all the ingredients of a story built to ... [continued]
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What is causing a critical Atlantic Ocean current system to weaken much sooner than generally predicted? You guessed it: global climate change. Data accumulated in an April 2026 study, published in Science Advances, points to likely catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa, and the Americas as a result of these Atlantic ... [continued]
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For decades, fishing studies typically employed one-on-one mapping exercises, guided by a facilitator who helped fishing industry participants to draw polygons or mark points on a digital or a paper map of an area of interest. Such ocean mapping has a strong temporal component, as it is intended to gather ... [continued]
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The inaugural forum brought innovators and policymakers together to address pressing environmental challenges.
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A study from the Netherlands suggests building a dam across the Bering Strait could stabilize the AMOC. Is that a good idea?
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When foodies head to Newport, Oregon, one place is always at the top of their list: Local Ocean. Repeat diners rave about the roasted garlic and crab soup, studded with fat lumps of local Dungeness; the lightly battered fried rockfish tacos served with citrus slaw, Huichol mayo and pickled veggies;...
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Sitting in a lagoon at MarineLab Undersea Park in Key Largo, this pressurized habitat is a compact world of portholes, bunks, and machinery with an uncanny feeling of domestic coziness.
MarineLab describes it as the world’s only underwater habitat where recreational divers can experience living and sleeping underwater, and the broader organization traces the habitat’s story back to La Chalupa,…
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at info@reasonstobecheerful.world and we just might feature it here. When things click How much do you have in common with a sperm whale? More than it would seem: New research has...
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This week, scientists reported that the collapse of a critical Atlantic current system is more likely than many of them feared. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc, sends warm water from the Southern Ocean near Antarctica up to the Arctic Sea and then returns the cooled water back again. It’s responsible for shaping the weather patterns that much of society has been…
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With 8 billion people on Earth, mathematician Kevin Burke calculates that any one person's chances of stumbling across a century-old message in a bottle are about 1 in 8 million. The calculation takes just two steps, as Burke explains in The Conversation. — Read the rest
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Nations achieved a ‘milestone’ for people and planet, terrorism death rates plummeted, and a long ignored organ was mapped, plus more
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Last July, a crew gathered along the San Francisco Embarcadero to watch as SF Port personnel detached a series of concrete tiles from the waterfront wall they’d been attached to for three years and hoisted them to the bay’s surface.
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Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute are studying ways to reduce ocean acidification near Cape Cod.
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The day began as usual for Ganeshbhai Devjibhai Varidum. The 54-year-old fisherman was on a trawler off the coast of the western Indian state of Gujarat, and the Arabian Sea was turbid, as it always is in this region. But as he and his crew drew up their enormous net,...
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History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.
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Early GAN art from coastal images, creating three collections of dreamy, hallucinatory seascapes that inspired further.
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