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Jason Breen is no stranger to wildlife encounters. As an avid surfer and water sportsman, he’s seen lots of marine animals around his home in Sydney, Australia. In fact, a few years ago, a humpback whale rocketed out of the water right in front of his board. When Breen recently heard about a huge animal trapped in a tidal pool, …

Scientists analyzing sediment scraped from a rugged ridge nearly three miles under the Central Pacific Ocean expected calm, predictable chemistry. Instead they found a dense band of the radioactive isotope beryllium‑10 (10Be) packed into the layer that formed about 10 million years ago. This enough extra atoms to raise the normal background by roughly seventy‑three percent. Dr. Dominik …

Some intriguing new measurements of salinity in the oceans around Antarctica have set off reams of sensationalist speculations. Maybe some context is helpful… What we’ve been seeing The climate change situation in the Southern Oceans (those seas surrounding Antarctica and connected by the massive Antarctic Circumpolar current) have been anomalous for many years, decades even. While even the earliest climate …

In a world where towering waterfalls like Niagara Falls and Angel Falls capture our imagination, there is one waterfall so vast, yet hidden, that it dwarfs all others. Found beneath the cold waters of the Arctic, the Denmark Strait cataract, Earth’s largest waterfall, is a natural wonder that no human eye has ever seen in its full, mighty descent. Stretching …

Niagara Falls pulls in tourists by the boatload. Angel Falls towers higher than city skyscrapers. Yet both pale in comparison to Earth’s largest waterfall – an enormous, rushing torrent concealed below Arctic waves. The Denmark Strait cataract drops in slow motion beneath the chilly surface between Iceland and Greenland. The chute begins thousands of feet down, rolls over …

Antarctica’s waters are getting saltier and driving a collapse in its sea ice — and scientists aren’t sure why. Antarctic sea ice has been declining since 2015, defying model predictions to hit a record 0.6 million square miles (1.55 million square kilometres) below its expected average extent in 2023. At winter’s peak in July of that year, the region was …

A love note in a bottle is found years later, an ocean away  The Washington Post Lovers’ message in a bottle found 13 years later and 2,000 miles away  AOL.com Message in a Bottle Discovered After 13 Years and 2,000 Miles  The Daily Beast Canadian couple’s message in a bottle found 13 years later in Irish bay  The Guardian Couple’s message in a bottle …