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Blue whales are losing their voices, but what is causing the silence?
A study spanning six years, which tracked whale songs, found that climate change is silencing one of the ocean's loudest ...
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Why are blue whales going silent? Researchers are studying a strange change in their behavior
Blue whales are going silent, and scientists are trying to understand why their once-powerful songs are fading across the oceans. Here’s what we know so far ...
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The End of Mutual Assured Destruction?
NIKITA LALWANI is a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Director for ...
Spot Amazing Sea Life at the Largest Aquariums in the U.S.
Whenever I take my family on a trip to a new state, we always try to visit the local aquarium, and I bet a lot of other ...
‘If the Allies Land on Japan’s Shores, Kill the POWs’: The Fight to Survive Nagasaki
Ghosts of Hiroshima will be James Cameron's next film. In this book excerpt, a POW and the prison guard who saved him try to survive the atomic blast ...
They lifted a rock on the ocean floor: What they found was massive...and alive
The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ecosystem lurking beneath the seabed. Using a remotely operated submersible, ...
‘Distressing’ sight as rare deep-diving whale & calf wash up on Irish beach & experts probe ‘acoustic trauma’ theory
A WHALE and her calf have died following a stranding on a Mayo beach, in what has been called a “very distressing incident” ...
Humans Traveled 31,000 Feet Below the Ocean—and Found a Hidden World of New Life Forms
Life is amazing. It’s survived everything from asteroid impacts to ice ages to continental drift and simply continued ...
Titan Submersible Implosion Victims Died Unnecessarily, According to Coast Guard: What Went Terribly Wrong?
The Coast Guard says the Titan submersible tragedy was preventable. Report cites design flaws, ignored warnings, and safety ...
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Where is OceanGate now? What we know as Titan Submersible disaster that killed 5 deemed preventable
US Coast Guard investigators have just released a 335-page report that has determined that OceanGate, the company that owned and operated the Titan submersible, had “flawed” safety protocols which led ...
Why did the Titan sub implode? Coast Guard releases report 2 years after tragedy
The two-year investigation by the Coast Guard determined the primary contributing factors for the fatal implosion that killed five people on the OceanGate sub.