Environment
Sound travels underwater at five times the speed it travels through air, and travels much farther. Tens of thousands of marine vessels ply the oceans per year and industry and military base their operations far from dry land. Unfortunately, the
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Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet with carbon emissions warming the seas, a phenomenon called “coral bleaching” – a sign of mass coral death – has been accelerating
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In the center of the Pacific Ocean gyre, researchers are finding more plastic than plankton. “A Plastic Ocean” documents the newest science, proving how plastics, once they enter the oceans, break up into small particulates that enter the food chain
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