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UC Santa Barbara researchers project that human impacts on oceans will double by 2050, with warming seas and fisheries ...

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The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are ...

Plastic risk maps reveal hidden ocean hotspots where wildlife faces harm from ingestion, entanglement, and chemicals.

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All sea turtle species are threatened worldwide. They migrate long distances in the oceans—often thousands of kilometers—and ...

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Tulane University scientists published the first global assessment of ecological risks from ocean plastics, showing that the greatest dangers are not always in visible “garbage patches” but in areas ...

An “enormous” submerged mountain that rivals peaks in the Rockies has been mapped for the first time in a previously unexplored area of the western Pacific, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration.