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Sea Ice To Ocean Currents, Antarctica Is Undergoing Abrupt Changes
Melting sea ice allows oceans to warm more rapidly, which melts more sea ice. Once triggered, they can be difficult or even impossible to reverse on timescales meaningful to humans.
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Another Billionaire Planning To Visit Titanic Wreck Two Years After Oceangate Disaster: Report
The Oceangate tragedy in 2023 has raised concerns over deep-sea tourism and safety.
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Atlantic Hurricane Season Sets Peak Record As Storm Erin Threatens US Coast
Hurricane Erin's massive footprint battered Caribbean islands with heavy gusts and downpours on Monday, as it threatened rip currents and flooding along the US East Coast later this week, even without a predicted landfall.
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May 2025 Second Warmest On Record: EU Climate Monitor
Global heating continued as the new norm, with last month the second warmest May on record on land and in the oceans, according to the European Union's climate monitoring service.
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NASA Spots Plankton Swarms from Space to Help Save North Atlantic Right Whales
North Atlantic Right Whales are one of the world’s most endangered mammals. They face threats from fishing gear entanglement and ship collisions. Scientists are now using NASA satellite data to track the whales’ key food source, the red coloured plankton Calanus finmarchicus, in the Gulf of Maine. By identifying swarms of this copepod via its n...
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Mysterious Brain Disease Found in Dead Great White Sharks Along Atlantic Coast
A series of unexplained great white shark deaths along the North American Atlantic Coast has sparked scientific investigations. The first case, recorded in August 2023, revealed brain inflammation in a shark found in Prince Edward Island. Further cases showed similar patterns, with experts struggling to determine the cause. Some scientists suggest ...
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Extinct Walrus-like Mammal Discovered in Atlantics, Provides New Insights into Marine Evolution
Recent findings have unveiled Ontocetus posti, an extinct walrus-like mammal that lived 2.2 million years ago. Led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville from the University of Tsukuba, this discovery, made from fossils found in Norwich, UK, and Antwerp, Belgium, provides fresh insights into the evolutionary history of walruses. Initially misidentified, the foss...
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Future Earthquake Epicenter? Scientists Forecast An 'Atlantic Ring Of Fire' Formation
Earth's continents have cyclically united and separated over billions of years. The future convergence remains uncertain, posing questions about timing and whether it will occur near the North Pole or equator.
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Earthquake Of Magnitude 6.4 Jolts North Atlantic Ocean
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 jolted North Atlantic Ocean, United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
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Netizens Upset With Netflix for Re-Releasing James Cameron's Titanic 'Too Soon' After Titan Submarine Tragedy
Netizens have criticised Netflix's latest move to bring 1997 blockbuster Titanic onto the streaming service 'too soon' after the Titan submersible disaster which has killed five people. Users suggest that this is 'bad timing' on the part of the streaming giant, and potentially capitalising on the attention generated by the tragedy.
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Hurricane Florence Likely To Make Landfall Today: 5 Facts
Hurricane Florence battered the Carolinas in United States early on Friday with howling winds, life-threatening storm surges and torrential rains. Hurricane Florence is weakened and slower moving than in recent days and is prepared to make a landfall at some point today. The National Hurricane Center, in its latest advisory, said that Hurricane Flo...
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Hurricane Florence Churns Toward US' South-Eastern Coast, Gains Force
Florence, the sixth tropical storm in the Atlantic basin this year, intensified into a hurricane on Sunday and will rapidly gain force as it churns over the open ocean toward the U.S. East Coast, with landfall likely in the Carolinas later this week, forecasters said
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Why You've Never Heard Of The Six Chinese Men Who Survived The Titanic
In the early hours of April 15, 1912, a lifeboat navigated the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, its skeleton crew scanning the dark, debris-littered surface for any sign of life. Hours earlier, the unthinkable had happened: The RMS Titanic, a majestic ocean liner deemed "unsinkable," had struck an iceberg and slowly disappeared into the s...
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Fast-Melting Arctic Is Already Altering Ocean's Circulation, Say Scientists
Scientists studying a remote and icy stretch of the North Atlantic have found new evidence that fresh water, likely melted from Greenland or Arctic sea ice, may already be altering a key process that helps drives the global circulation of the oceans.
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Postal Label Mailed To Titanic May Fetch 12,000 Pounds At Auction
A unique postal label from a parcel addressed to the wireless operator on the Titanic, the ill-fated British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean during its maiden voyage in April 1912, is expected to be sold for 12,000 pounds at an auction.
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Sea Ice To Ocean Currents, Antarctica Is Undergoing Abrupt Changes
Melting sea ice allows oceans to warm more rapidly, which melts more sea ice. Once triggered, they can be difficult or even impossible to reverse on timescales meaningful to humans.
-
Another Billionaire Planning To Visit Titanic Wreck Two Years After Oceangate Disaster: Report
The Oceangate tragedy in 2023 has raised concerns over deep-sea tourism and safety.
-
Atlantic Hurricane Season Sets Peak Record As Storm Erin Threatens US Coast
Hurricane Erin's massive footprint battered Caribbean islands with heavy gusts and downpours on Monday, as it threatened rip currents and flooding along the US East Coast later this week, even without a predicted landfall.
-
May 2025 Second Warmest On Record: EU Climate Monitor
Global heating continued as the new norm, with last month the second warmest May on record on land and in the oceans, according to the European Union's climate monitoring service.
-
NASA Spots Plankton Swarms from Space to Help Save North Atlantic Right Whales
North Atlantic Right Whales are one of the world’s most endangered mammals. They face threats from fishing gear entanglement and ship collisions. Scientists are now using NASA satellite data to track the whales’ key food source, the red coloured plankton Calanus finmarchicus, in the Gulf of Maine. By identifying swarms of this copepod via its n...
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Mysterious Brain Disease Found in Dead Great White Sharks Along Atlantic Coast
A series of unexplained great white shark deaths along the North American Atlantic Coast has sparked scientific investigations. The first case, recorded in August 2023, revealed brain inflammation in a shark found in Prince Edward Island. Further cases showed similar patterns, with experts struggling to determine the cause. Some scientists suggest ...
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Extinct Walrus-like Mammal Discovered in Atlantics, Provides New Insights into Marine Evolution
Recent findings have unveiled Ontocetus posti, an extinct walrus-like mammal that lived 2.2 million years ago. Led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville from the University of Tsukuba, this discovery, made from fossils found in Norwich, UK, and Antwerp, Belgium, provides fresh insights into the evolutionary history of walruses. Initially misidentified, the foss...
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Future Earthquake Epicenter? Scientists Forecast An 'Atlantic Ring Of Fire' Formation
Earth's continents have cyclically united and separated over billions of years. The future convergence remains uncertain, posing questions about timing and whether it will occur near the North Pole or equator.
-
Earthquake Of Magnitude 6.4 Jolts North Atlantic Ocean
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 jolted North Atlantic Ocean, United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
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Netizens Upset With Netflix for Re-Releasing James Cameron's Titanic 'Too Soon' After Titan Submarine Tragedy
Netizens have criticised Netflix's latest move to bring 1997 blockbuster Titanic onto the streaming service 'too soon' after the Titan submersible disaster which has killed five people. Users suggest that this is 'bad timing' on the part of the streaming giant, and potentially capitalising on the attention generated by the tragedy.
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Hurricane Florence Likely To Make Landfall Today: 5 Facts
Hurricane Florence battered the Carolinas in United States early on Friday with howling winds, life-threatening storm surges and torrential rains. Hurricane Florence is weakened and slower moving than in recent days and is prepared to make a landfall at some point today. The National Hurricane Center, in its latest advisory, said that Hurricane Flo...
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Hurricane Florence Churns Toward US' South-Eastern Coast, Gains Force
Florence, the sixth tropical storm in the Atlantic basin this year, intensified into a hurricane on Sunday and will rapidly gain force as it churns over the open ocean toward the U.S. East Coast, with landfall likely in the Carolinas later this week, forecasters said
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Why You've Never Heard Of The Six Chinese Men Who Survived The Titanic
In the early hours of April 15, 1912, a lifeboat navigated the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, its skeleton crew scanning the dark, debris-littered surface for any sign of life. Hours earlier, the unthinkable had happened: The RMS Titanic, a majestic ocean liner deemed "unsinkable," had struck an iceberg and slowly disappeared into the s...
-
Fast-Melting Arctic Is Already Altering Ocean's Circulation, Say Scientists
Scientists studying a remote and icy stretch of the North Atlantic have found new evidence that fresh water, likely melted from Greenland or Arctic sea ice, may already be altering a key process that helps drives the global circulation of the oceans.
-
Postal Label Mailed To Titanic May Fetch 12,000 Pounds At Auction
A unique postal label from a parcel addressed to the wireless operator on the Titanic, the ill-fated British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean during its maiden voyage in April 1912, is expected to be sold for 12,000 pounds at an auction.
