Food Watch: Insane Amount Of Plastic Found In Ocean Enters The Food Chain [WATCH]

Medicine & Technology Mar 13, 2017

Studies conclude that humans are in danger from the huge quantities of manmade, toxic plastic that marine life is already being harmed from. Humans are the end consumer of this food chain that is increasingly getting polluted with plastic waste.

Global Warming Brings Coral Bleaching In The Great Barrier Reef

Mar 10, 2017

After a day of an aerial survey, coral reef authorities have found out that another mass coral bleaching has happened in the Great Barrier Reef.

Walking Fishes: Sea Robin, Pink Frogmouth, Caught On Camera At The Ocean Floor

Mar 03, 2017

Anglerfish looks like a four-legged fish with an odd and sad face. Its fins serve as its legs which it uses to balance on the seabed.

Underwater Mollusk Fossil Deposits Gateway To Glorious Past

Mar 02, 2017

Mollusk fossils are a reflection of marine ecosystem altered by humans. It provides an authentic measure of the human induced underwater changes.

Scientists Discovered 10 Bizarre New Sea Creatures At The Hidden Depths Of The Atlantic Ocean

Feb 28, 2017

10 new species added to the list of sea creatures. MARCO team used their advanced Remotely Operated Vehicle(ROV) to explore at the deepest point of Atlantic.

Global Warming Causes Record Shrinking Of Ocean Oxygen Level In 50 Years: Alarming Condition For Sea Life

Feb 17, 2017

Over the past 50 years, the global rate of Oxygen at ocean is decreased by two percent. Scientists identified that burning of fossil fuel increases the greenhouse gas in atmosphere and 40 percent of greenhouse gases gets absorbed by ocean.

Deep-Ocean Sound Waves Might Stop Tsunamis

Feb 16, 2017

Scientists have discovered that deep-ocean sound waves can stop or decrease tsunami waves.

Oxygen Decreases In Oceans Affecting Not Only Aquatic Animals

Feb 16, 2017

A new scientific report has stated that oxygen levels have decreased In oceans, specifically Pacific and Arctic. It has largely affected the aquatic organisms.

Man-Made Wastes Reaches 7 Miles Deep To Mariana Trench

Feb 14, 2017

Scientists from England have discovered a shocking truth. they have found that Mariana Trench, deepest part of the ocean is heavily polluted.

Mismatched Eyes Of The 'Cockeyed' Squid Help Them To Survive In The Twilight Zone Of Ocean

Feb 13, 2017

A team of graduation student from duke University finally found out the reason behind the Mismatched Eyes Of The Cockeyed Squid. Lead researcher Kate Thomas and her team watched more than 150 undersea videos on the Cockeyed squid.

Once Solid Peninsula in Antarctica Begins to Melt

May 24, 2015

A part of Antarctica that scientists once thought to be safe from climate change is now showing signs of instability, and the loss of this ice could lead to the rising sea levels around the world.

Seeing With Its Skin—How An Octopus Can Live In the Deep

May 21, 2015

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that the octopus, uniquely adept with camouflage, can "see" with its skin. The study found that the California two-spot octopus can sense light using light-sensitive proteins, similar to those found in eyes, in its skin.

Port of Los Angeles Reveals a New Resident of the City—A Roly Poly Pillbug Species

May 19, 2015

On the mother of all class field trips, a new species of marine roly poly pillbug was discovered, Los Angeles researchers from the county Natural History Museum confirm. The discovery was made as an invertebrate zoology lab course from Loyola Marymount University taught by researcher Dean Pentcheff of the museum explored a small, dirty, rocky beach at the southernmost tip of the city-less than a mile from the busiest port in America.

Ocean Microbes and How They Affect Our Atmosphere in the Age of Climate Change

May 19, 2015

That restorative sea breeze you enjoy on your vacation is more complex than most of us realize. Now, researchers from the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE) have demonstrated that microbes in seawater influence our climate, shaping the ways that sunlight enters the ocean as clouds form. The study recently presented to the American Chemical Society shows that it is the microbes in the seawater that control the way sea spray enters into the atmosphere, and everything that follows that.

Octopus Arm Inspires Future Surgical Tool

May 15, 2015

A group of scientists in Italy have taken their inspiration from the octopus, creating a robotic arm that can bend, squeeze, and stretch through even cluttered environments. The device was created specifically for surgeons who need to access confined or remote areas of the body more easily.