Oceanography
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Shell Oil announced Wednesday that it has scaled back its Arctic Ocean exploration plans in 2011 to promising sites in the Beaufort Sea, backing off prospects in the Chukchi Sea until legal clouds are cleared.
COOS BAY, Ore. - An Oregon man says a great white shark knocked him off his surfboard near Winchester Bay.
WASHINGTON - The world's oceans may be vast and deep, but a decade-long count of marine animals finds sea life so interconnected that it seems to shrink the watery world.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - If huge, hungry Asian carp reach Lake Michigan, their long-dreaded invasion may turn out to be less ferocious than once expected because a tiny competitor is gobbling up their primary food source, some Great Lakes researchers say.
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