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New studies provide new insights into the physical and biological aspects of the Red Sea.

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/an-ocean-observatory-for-the-red-sea/

New light has been shed on the processes by which ocean water enters the solid Earth during continental breakup. New research shows a direct link on geological timescales between fault activity a...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/faults-control-the-amount-of-water-flowing-into-the-earth-during-continental-breakup/

Marine protected areas generate both extreme cooperation and extreme competition among commercial fishers. When these behaviors remain in balance, they can lead to better conservation of marine r...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/marine-protected-areas-intensify-both-cooperation-and-competition/

Greenland's snowy surface has been getting darker over the past two decades, absorbing more heat from the sun and increasing snow melt, a new study of satellite data shows. That trend is likely t...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/greenlands-ice-is-getting-darker-increasing-risk-of-melting/

Biologists have created highly detailed maps charting the seasonal movements and population densities of 35 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises -- many of them threatened or endangered -- i...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/new-maps-reduce-threats-to-whales-dolphins/

Large numbers of California sea lion pups have flooded animal rescue centers in Southern California in the past few years. Now, as part of an ongoing investigation into the Unusual Mortality Even...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/food-limitation-linked-to-record-california-sea-lion-pup-strandings/

Researchers have proposed a novel ocean-current turbine design. Fossil fuels propelled the Industrial Revolution and subsequent technological advances. However, our future cannot be based on them...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/novel-ocean-current-turbine-design-taming-oceans-for-247-power/

Researchers have found that as multiple species of whales feast on herring, they tend to stick with their own kind, establishing species-specific feeding centers along the 150-mile length of Geor...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/whales-dine-with-their-own-kind-predators-feed-in-species-specific-hotspots/

For what may be the first time, NOAA and partner scientists eavesdropped on the deepest part of the world's ocean and instead of finding a sea of silence, discovered a cacophony of sounds both na...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/seven-miles-deep-ocean-still-a-noisy-place/

The role that geological rock formations offshore of Japan played in producing the massive 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake -- one of only two magnitude nine mega-earthquakes to occur in the last 50 ye...

http://www.oceanguy.us/climate/new-study-pinpoints-stress-factor-of-mega-earthquake-off-japan/