Research finds higher acidity in Alaska waters

Erosion threatens to topple coastal Alaska villages. Melting ice threatens polar bears. Now, a marine scientist says the state's marine waters are turning acidic from absorbing greenhouse gases faster than tropical waters, potentially endangering Alaska's $4.6 billion fishing industry.

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In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record

Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean Sunday — in Maine. The water temperature was 72 degrees — more like Ocean City, Md., this time of year. And Ocean City's water temp hit 88 degrees this week, toasty even by Miami Beach standards.

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Olympic swimmer: Oceans need our help

It's no secret that U.S. Olympic swimmer and gold medalist Aaron Peirsol has a deep love for the water. That's why the California native has parlayed his interest — and status as a sports figure — into causes to save our planet's oceans. Here, he talks about environmental awareness, education, and his most recent project, Race for the Oceans.

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New federal rules proposed for offshore fish farms

The Bush administration proposed a set of rules on Wednesday to regulate future projects off American shores that would use the ocean for alternative energy and aquaculture.

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House moves to keep shark fins out of fancy soups

The House took steps Tuesday to keep shark fins out of soups served in pricey Asian restaurants.

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Tidbits: Wahlberg disses Clooney's 'Ocean's' films

Long before Matt Damon took on the role of second-generation grifter Linus Caldwell in “Ocean’s Eleven,” Mark Wahlberg had a shot at the part and turned it down. Looking back at it, Mark doesn’t regret his decision to skip what turned out to be a blockbuster franchise. In fact, he told Zoo magazine, he’s better off not having to pretend he enjoyed working on the films.

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How satellites saved the world

BOSTON - In the 50 years since satellites first went into orbit, the readings they've provided have given science a huge boost.

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Greenhouse gases hit new high

Greenhouse gases widely blamed for causing global warming have climbed to record highs in the atmosphere, an Arctic researcher has revealed.

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CO2 being pushed deep into the oceans

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is being pushed deeper into the oceans than previously thought, according to researchers.

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California to Restrict Ocean Fishing

Flying over California's rugged Central Coast, Mike Sutton pointed to kelp forests and rocky reefs just below the water's surface that will soon be off-limits to fishing under one of the nation's most ambitious plans to protect marine life.

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Bush Seeks Ban on Destructive Fishing

President Bush called for a halt to destructive fishing on the high seas Tuesday and said the United States will work to eliminate or better regulate practices such as bottom trawling that devastate fish populations and the ocean floor.

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A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm. The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean.

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Starfish suck up cold water to prepare themselves for exposure to the sun at low tide and alleviate any heat stress. The threat of global warming will cause this adaptation of the starfish to cease working as the oceans become warmer.

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The Polar Ocean Physics Group from Cambridge University compared measurements of ice thickness recorded by a Royal Navy nuclear submarine with those taken two years later in the same area by Pen Hadow, the explorer.

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As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three decades. Whatever happened to global warming?

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Pictures taken by cameras attached to the backs of albatrosses show that the huge seabirds use killer whales to help find their food for them.

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NOAA reported the blockbuster news today:

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Galapagos National Park managers said they found three new nests belonging to petrels, an endangered bird native to the area, the Ecuadorian press reported Sunday.

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A team of Australian inventors has been awarded the $30,000 grand prize in the International WWF Smart Gear Competition for a fishing gear innovation that could save thousands of seabirds from dying accidentally on long-lines each year.

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Peruvian anchovy fishers – who pull in 10% of the total fish catch in the world – for the first time will be independently monitored, ensuring the sustainability of stocks.

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ENVIRONMENT groups are calling for a permanent ban on ''deadly'' artificial fishing devices used to attract huge tuna catches in the Pacific after scientific reports found that stocks of bigeye tuna are collapsing.

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Conservation geneticists who study sea turtles have a new tool to help track this highly migratory and endangered group of marine animals: DNA barcodes. DNA barcodes are relatively short segments of mitochondrial DNA.

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A SOUTHERN right whale was caught on camera near Port Elliot, South Australia frolicking very close to surfers. Teenage surfer Jack Creevy snapped the amazing shot of the whale "tail lobbing" at Knights Beach.

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A Magnificent Place To Go

I really find it so much amazing reminiscing my past voyages on this beautiful place, somewhere in Palawan Islands, Philippines.

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Nestled within the new Pacific Remote Islands Marine Monument lies Palmyra Atoll, one of the last pristine coral reefs left on the planet some 960 nautical miles south of Hawaii. Or near pristine. In 1991 a 100-foot longline fishing ship—the "Hui Feng No.

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Predicting global warming may have just gotten even harder. The swimming of ocean creatures may be as effective as winds or tides at ocean mixing—a process that plays a major role in shaping Earth's climate.

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A good look at how just a few changes will help fisheries to recover. Sushi eaters, rejoice!

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Fish have lost half their average body mass and smaller species are making up a larger proportion of European fish stocks as a result of global warming, a study published Monday has found. "It's huge," said study author Martin Daufresne of the Cemagref Public Agricultural  …

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On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) prohibited krill harvesting off the US West Coast. The ban goes into effect Aug. 12. Krill are tiny shrimplike creatures. They eat algae and, occasionally, other little critters.

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Drifting across the world's oceans are a group of unicellular marine microorganisms that are not only a crucial source of food for other marine life — but their fossils, which are found in abundance, provide scientists with an extraordinary record of climatic change and other m …

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Ocean acidification off the U.S.

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Sharks are threatened with extinction. They remain virtually unprotected in the oceans. It would be a sheer devastation for the aquatic ecosystem if sharks disappear.

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President Barack Obama launched a plan on Friday to protect the oceans, U.S. coasts and Great Lakes from the threats of climate change, pollution and overfishing.

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Last week 70 international academies of science predicted dire consequences for global food production and "dramatic changes in the makeup of ocean biodiversity" unless carbon dioxide emissions -- the cause of ocean acidification -- are cut in half within the next four decades.

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Our oceans are now emptying of sea creatures and environmentalists are hoping to restock them. Is this a good thing? Those sea creatures of the past were considered a threat and this is why they were eliminated.

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British scientists exploring the oceans have found "an amazing group of new lifeforms, at depths where life was once thought impossible."

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