oceans
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‘Road to Atlantis’ Discovered on Seafloor Is Not Road to Atlantis
After a scientific expedition released video of what looks an awful lot like a brick path on the seafloor, the New York Post asked, “Have researchers found an undersea road to the lost city of Atlantis?” No, of course they haven’t. But they did find a neat natural phenomenon linked to underwater volcanoes.
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La NIña Is Raising Sea Levels but Unfortunately This Is Going To Be the New Normal
Severe coastal flooding inundated islands and atolls across the western equatorial Pacific last week, with widespread damage to buildings and food crops in the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. On one level, very high tides are normal at this time of year in the western Pacific, and are…
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The Dream of Scooping Plastic From the Ocean Is Still Alive — and Problematic
This week, one of the world’s most-watched plastic clean-up projects will announce victory. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that has set out to solve the huge problem of plastics in the ocean, will hold a press event Wednesday where it will review the success of its latest system. The group has already said the contraption…
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Abandoned Oil Pipelines Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen in the Gulf of Mexico
Seems like no one is keeping an eye on what polluters are doing in the Gulf of Mexico. For decades, the U.S. federal government has allowed the oil and gas industry to abandon almost all ocean pipeline infrastructure it no longer uses without further cleanup — and barely monitors the safety of active pipelines still…