April 13, 2020 Dutch high school students continue their education on schooner during coronavirus The sailing trip that 25 Dutch high school students embarked on last month was supposed to end in Cuba, where they would trade a tall ship for a plane flight back to the Netherlands. The coronavirus pandemic forced a change in plans.
April 13, 2020 ‘Longest animal ever’ discovered off Australia’s coast Underwater explorers have discovered a 150-foot-long siphonophore, a weird translucent creature that's actually made up of tinier critters, off the coast of Australia.
April 7, 2020 How Big Data helps researchers protect the high seas' biodiversity The planet's high seas have become areas where lots of human activity takes place -- including fishing, transportation and minding -- which could threaten their biodiversity, according to researchers.
April 7, 2020 Great Barrier reef sees most widespread bleaching ever recorded, scientists say Australia's Great Barrier reef is experiencing its most widespread bleaching event ever recorded.
March 20, 2020 Greenland shed enormous 600B tons of ice last year, scientists warn A disturbing new study notes that Greeland lost 600 billion tons of ice by the end of last summer, enough to raise global sea levels 2.2 millimeters in just two months by itself.
March 19, 2020 Two new 'astonishing' shark species discovered in the Indian Ocean An international team of marine scientists has discovered two new species of six-gilled sharks in the Indian Ocean.
March 16, 2020 5 interesting facts about the moon The moon has been the Earth's companion in the Solar System for almost 5 billion years. It is the only place beyond Earth where humans have set foot.
March 9, 2020 Sea turtles eat plastic because it smells like food, study shows New research reveals that some sea turtles confuse the smell of plastic with food.
March 5, 2020 500-million-year-old 'social network' helped sea monsters clone themselves Some of the earliest animals on Earth stayed connected via networks of thread-like filaments that helped them to dominate the planet's oceans about half a billion years ago.
March 4, 2020 'Gardens and graveyards' of coral discovered in hidden canyons off Australia's coast The South Australian coast is surrounded by a labyrinth of underwater canyons, many of them still unexplored. Last week, an international team of researchers (and their underwater robot companion) completed a survey of three such canyons, uncovering a hidden world of both thriving coral gardens and ash-white coral graveyards.
