Not very far in the future, monsters have emerged from a fissure deep in the Pacific ocean.
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Great White Sharks Stalks Oblivious Kayaker as People Scream at Him From Shore
kayaker Mr Szulc, 41, has a lot to be grateful for after a close encounter with a great white at a popular US Cape Cod resort. Walter Szulc was paddling near a Cape Cod beach at the weekend when he saw the shark’s dorsal fin just behind him. He said he said he “paddled very fast” to shore […]
Can Climate Shift the Biology of Ecosystems?
Scientists have made lots of projections over the past few years about how warming temperatures and a changing climate will affect the planet.
A Perfect Weekend in Seminyak, Bali
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Plastic in the Ocean: The Pacific Trash Vortex
On film, many a desert-island castaway has put a message in a bottle and cast it out to sea, hoping it would someday reach land. Sorry, all you modern-day Robinson Crusoes, try that with a plastic bottle in real life, and your message will probably end up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, bobbing in a floating collection of trash known as the Plastic Vortex.
A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447
We’ll never know what it was like to be aboard Air France Flight 447 as it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, apparently killing all 228 aboard. For now, the closest we may get is listening to the passengers on a similar Airbus 330 jet whose flight computer put it into an uncommanded dive over northwestern Australia last October
Plane, helicopter collide off California coast; 9 missing
A search was on Thursday night for nine people left missing after a Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine helicopter over the Pacific Ocean near Southern California, officials said.
Hurricane Rick roars across eastern North Pacific
Hurricane Rick became the second strongest hurricane in the eastern North Pacific Ocean in more than 10 years early Sunday, whipping up winds of 180 miles per hour.
Arctic ice to vanish in summer, report says
New data released Thursday suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be “largely ice free” during summer within a decade. The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is the latest research into ice thickness in the Arctic
Four major quakes strike South Pacific
For the fourth time in less than 11 hours, a major earthquake rocked the South Pacific Ocean near the island nation of Vanuatu on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.