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What we need is a new food system that keeps people fed and ecosystems healthy.
The oxygen is being sucked out of the ocean, and while much of it is happening far below the surface, it will still affect us above.
Obama just created a Pacific Ocean reserve almost twice the size of Texas to curb fishing and oil drilling. But it might be too little
Carl Sagan's description of our planet as a "pale blue dot" captured two important elements about the Earth: its loneliness in the enormity of space, and the ocean's overwhelming dominance of the planet
After decades of trying, U.S. Navy scientists have finally cracked the technology to turn seawater into fuel.
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The oceans are becoming warmer, more acidic, starved of oxygen, and less productive. Here are the results, in technicolor.
Ocean acidification is increasing at an unprecedented rate, according to a study published in August 2013 in Nature. As oceans absorb carbon dioxide (CO2)
Ocean acidification - where the ocean becomes less alkaline as it absorbs excess CO2 from the atmosphere - has been described as the evil twin of global warming. Yet, remarkably, it is only over the past
Authorities in Florida ended the search Saturday for a man presumed dead after a sinkhole opened beneath the bedroom of his family's suburban Tampa home.
As the ocean absorbs carbon, it's becoming too acidic to grow oysters, spurring those in the shellfish industry to lead the charge for awareness.
By persisting in the false belief that coral reefs have a future, we grossly misallocate the funds needed to cope with the fallout from their collapse.
It's possible that the 19th century British powers-that-be were just running a really, really long con when they sent their convicts to settle Australia, because anyone who lives there now is royally screwed. In Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell chronicles exactly how screwed. (Answer:...