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January 26, 2024
Heather Souvaine Horn
How Fishing Releases Huge Amounts of Carbon Dioxide
A new study shows bottom trawling isn’t just destructive to wildlife along the ocean floor.
August 4, 2023
Molly Taft
What Boiling Oceans Will Do to Life on Land
“We knew this would happen, but the difference is that we thought it would be a little bit later.”
July 31, 2023
Kate Aronoff
What Florida’s Corals Look Like After Catastrophic Bleaching
What’s alarming about this year’s bleaching event is just how quickly the corals died.
June 20, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To
Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.
June 12, 2023
Prem Thakker
Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up on Texas Shores, in Eerie Reminder of Global Warming
There’s only more of this to come.
April 13, 2020
Alicia Kennedy
The Problem With Shrimp
Shrimp farming releases huge quantities of greenhouse gases, in addition to supporting abusive labor practices.
March 6, 2020
Deb Vanasse
Your Favorite Beach Is Disappearing
The loss of our sandy shorelines is a warning from the future of our overheated planet.
September 21, 2017
Colin Dickey
When Squid Ruled the Earth
Prehistoric squid were far more numerous, and their reign lasted longer, than the dinosaurs. Why do we know so little about them?
August 22, 2017
Rachel Riederer
Sailing to the Pacific Ocean’s Trash Vortex
In his new book, "Junk Raft," Marcus Eriksen discovers a sea filled with tiny particles of harmful plastic.
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