11-07-14 The great painter was asked, one day to paint a picture of Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea. A little while after the picture had been commenced, a hitch（故障） arose over the fee, and Hogarth found that he would have to complete the commission for abo...

11-07-12 Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technology during research cruises（游艇） onboard the RRS J...

11-07-01 Many animals have eyes that are incredibly complex others manage without. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have shown that sea urchins（海胆） see with their entire body despite having no eyes at all. The study has been published in the s...

11-06-24 Where Atlantic salmon（鲑鱼） feed in the ocean has been a long-standing mystery, but new research led by the University of Southampton shows that marine location can be recovered from the chemistry of fish scales. Surprisingly, salmon from differen...

11-06-21 The rate of sea level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years--and has shown a consistent link between changes in global mean surface temperature and sea level. The findings are published this week...

11-06-11 Venice the City of Dreams may have one less nightmare to deal with following a finding that the frequency of extreme storm surge events generated by Adriatic Sea tempests（大风暴） could fall by about 30 per cent by 2100. A team of international sci...

11-06-02 Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high- resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial Basin, an immense ice-buried lowland in East Antar...

11-05-26 Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already beleaguered（围困的） northern abalone（鲍鱼） , according to the first study to provide direct experimental evidence that changing sea water chemistry is negatively...

11-05-26 Paleontologists（古生物学家） have discovered that a group of remarkable ancient sea creatures existed for much longer and grew to much larger sizes than previously thought, thanks to extraordinarily well-preserved fossils discovered in Morocco. The...

11-04-19 Oxygenation brings dead sea bottoms to life. This creates the necessary conditions for the establishment of new ecosystems that enable nature itself to deal with eutrophication（富营养化） . By conducting pilot studies in two fjords（峡湾，海湾） in...