Oceans
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.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off Indonesia were wowed by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor - including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous.
WASHINGTON - The amount of plastic trash in the ocean doesn't seem to be growing, and environmentalists are puzzled.
STOCKHOLM - An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.
ROCKLAND, Maine - Matthew Simmons, an energy investment banker who espoused the peak oil theory and became an advocate for alternative energy, has died at his North Haven island home, officials said Monday.
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- US top scientists urge coal, oil use penalties
- Israel dedicates huge sea-water purification plant
- Shell to court: Ready to drill Arctic Ocean
- Arctic oil drilling arguments due in federal court
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- Commission proposes limited commercial whale hunts
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