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The Great Barrier Reef

Diving Into the Great Barrier Reef

Beautiful beaches and unrivaled underwater views lure lovers of marine life to the world’s largest coral reef
January 2008 | By T.A. Frail

To capture its prey, the Tiburonia granrojo does not use stinging tentacles, as do the majority of jellies; it deploys long fleshy arms. Little else is currently know about this creature.

Creatures of the Deep!

A new book of photographs taken in the ocean depths reveals a world abounding in unimagined life
October 2007 | By Laura Helmuth

Most Americans get their mercury from tuna, which typically live in the open ocean. But new research has shown that tuna (caught off the coast of Maryland) sometimes feed near the shore before heading back out to sea.

Mystery at Sea

How mercury gets into tuna and other fish in the ocean has scientists searching from the coast to the floor
September 27, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

Nancy Knowlton, the National Museum of Natural History

Turning the Tide

Our oceans are in trouble, says Nancy Knowlton. But it's not too late to do something about it
September 24, 2007 | By Cate Lineberry

A debate exists between marine scientists who believe that local factors such as overfishing and pollution are most to blame for poor coral reef health and those who say global climate change is the main culprit.

Deep Trouble

Coral reefs are clearly struggling. The only debate for marine scientists is whether the harm is being done on a local or global scale
September 24, 2007 | By Mark Schrope

US Coast Guard

The Pirate Hunters

As buccanneering is back with a vengeance, stepped-up law enforcement and high-tech tools work to help protect shipping on the high seas
August 2007 | By Paul Raffaele

The USS Oriskany, one of the hardest fighting ships in the fleet, now rests on the Gulf floor, 212 feet down, a new attraction for marine life—and divers.

R.I.P., Mighty O

A fabled aircraft carrier sunk deliberately off the coast of Florida is the world's largest artificial reef
November 2006 | By Geoffrey Norman

To gauge the health of the threatened marine environment, scientists are revisiting sites in the Bahamas documented half a century ago by Charles C.G. Chaplin.

A Return to the Reefs

With the world's coral reefs in crisis, the author's childhood memories guide a far-reaching study of the problem in the Bahamas
February 2006 | By Gordon Chaplin

Scientists have extracted some 20,000 new biochemical substances from marine life over the past 30 years. But the hunt for drugs from the sea has only recently gone into hight gear (above, divers collect organisms from a Gulf of Mexico oil rig).

Medicine from the Sea

From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments
May 01, 2004 | By Kevin Krajick

a Titanic life vest

Titanic Sank This Morning

An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
April 2004 | By Owen Edwards

Cmdr. Bobbie Scholley

Pieces of History

Raised from the deep, the Monitor's turret reveals a bounty of new details about the ship's violent end
November 2002 | By Wendy Mitman Clarke

Phenomena, Comment and Notes

Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth's submarine volcanoes, it may have started there. And at least one other body in the Solar System just might have eruptions on its ocean floor
May 1997 | By John P. Wiley Jr.


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