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oceans

Manta ray {Manta birostris} from below, Sulu-sulawesi seas, Indo-Pacific

Life

Richard Powers's new novel is a beautiful love letter to our oceans

From colonialism to AI, this Booker-longlisted novel urges us to wake up to how we treat wild creatures and places

Culture

Environment

Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harvests and the plague

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Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel

Environment

Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel

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Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

Physics

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

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Environment

Mega El Niños may have played a part in the Permian mass extinction

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Environment

Another extreme low for Antarctic sea ice signals a permanent shift

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Environment

The Atlantic has been suspiciously quiet this hurricane season

Analysis

National Geographic handout TV still: OCEANXPLORERS. Eric Ste-Marie, Cameraman Jamie Holland, Aldo Kane, Melissa Marquez, Nigel Hussey, and Crew Josh Palmer work to tag a Greenland Shark off the side of the FRC. (National Geographic/Mario Tadinac)

Environment

James Cameron's new ocean-life series is try-hard but effective

Culture

How a viral video made turtles the face of the ocean plastic crisis

Environment

How a viral video made turtles the face of the ocean plastic crisis

Comment

2TDDHCE Bob Givehchi, right, and his son Daniel, 8, Toronto residents visiting Miami for the first time, walk past debris and palm trees blowing in gusty winds, at Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, Fla., Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. It's beginning to look at lot like?hurricane season, at least across much of South Florida, where it's been windy and rainy for two days and the forecast predicts more of the same this busy holiday season weekend. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Earth

Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why

After over a year of record-high global sea temperatures, the equatorial Atlantic is cooling off more quickly than ever recorded, which could impact weather around the world

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Environment

The crisis in our oceans shows how quickly climate chaos can strike

Leader

Environment

How climate change has pushed our oceans to the brink of catastrophe

Features

Environment

Pen Hadow: Climate change is making my epic Arctic crossing impossible

Comment

Environment

Controversial idea to save corals would replace them with new species

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