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Researchers want to study mobile oxygen minimum zonesThe nets are in place: As part of the Helmholtz enviro...

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Serendipitous discovery: Large cold water coral reef Norwegian researchers have discovered the largest know...

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Lost during a fight? Divers group recovers 3,300 year old bronze objects from riverA research team discover...

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The Sargasso Sea is a plastic seaThe concentration of microplastics in the West Atlantic Sargasso Sea is ap...

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New study on coral growth in times of climate changeCorals have been master builders of the seas for millio...

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Antique ship had loaded amphoraeIn the sea off Protaras, Cyprus, an ancient wreck was recently discovered. ...

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Japan resumes commercial whaling In December 2018 Japan announced that it would hunt and kill whales for co...

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Better protection for historic wrecksFor some years, systematic archaeological investigations have been car...

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The Gulf of Mexico "runs out of air" every summer NOAA scientists forecast the hypoxic zone or dead zone...

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Researchers are discovering extensive coral reef off the coast of southern Italy Off the coast of Italy,...

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A burial mound at the bottom of the lakeThe "Sweet Lake" (Süße See)in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) is a real tre...

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Web-based application improves data evaluation and availabilityCoral reefs are as vulnerable as they are be...

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Researchers are investigating upwelling areas off Africa and South AmericaOn the eastern edges of the Atlan...

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Japan returns to commercial whalingJapan is leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC). This is rep...

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International researchers investigate gas emissions in Arctic Large quantities of the greenhouse gas metha...

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Claw can generate one of loudest sounds in the ocean Another shrimp in the wall... With its large bri...

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International research team publishes latest seafloor maps Tectonically, the Mediterranean is very activ...

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Representatives dispatched to persuade other countries to support them The Japanese government is doin...

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In 1778, thirteen ships had been sunk by British forces in the Newport Harbour off Rhode Island during the ...

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The mysteries of the deep sea became a little more enchanting when the somewhat errie image of a small octo...

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A team of scientists embarked on a recent expedition off the coast of El Hierro to examine a new submarine ...

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Together with an international team of radiation experts, Greenpeace is currently at Fukushima, measuring t...

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A crater at the bottom of the North Sea has yielded fresh insights into the fate of methane released at the...

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Due to the increasing number of shipping accidents in the Maldives, the government has announced stricter s...

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Easing of restrictions may affect public health The European Commission is planning to raise the limitat...

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While searching for carbon emissions related to volcanic activity in the Gulf of California, the German dee...

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