12-11-13 The first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift have occurred over the last 20 years, in response to changing winds, is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists from NERC's British Antarctic Survey (B...

12-11-07 Moon Over Brad Leithauser Scuba divers（戴水肺的潜水员） will sometimes drown within a night sea after confusing up and down. It seems so basic up/down and yet, immersed in a black neutral buoyancy（浮力） , the world's boundaries all wet, a person...

12-11-02 Sea levels are rising faster than expected from global warming, and University of Colorado geologist Bill Hay has a good idea why. The last official IPCC report in 2007 projected a global sea level rise between 0.2 and 0.5 meters by the year 2100. B...

12-10-24 The steady and dramatic decline in the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean over the last three decades has become a focus of media and public attention. At the opposite end of Earth, however, something more complex is happening. A new NASA study shows...

12-09-19 During the first six months of 2012, sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem were the highest ever recorded, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC). Above...

12-09-14 There is a great kingdom under the sea. Where all the merpeople live and swim free. The king of the mermaids, Poseidon the Great, has six pretty daughters-the youngest is eight. Her name is Titania. She's golden hair. She likes to hear stories from...

12-09-07 Scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu sets a world new record by drilling down and obtains rock samples from deeper than 2,111 meters below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The Japan Agency for Marin...

12-08-28 The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., the amount is the smallest size ever observed in the three decades...

12-08-24 They are one of the most destructive forces of nature on Earth, but now environmental scientists are working to tame the hurricane. In a paper, published in Atmospheric Science Letters, the authors propose using cloud seeding to decrease sea surface...

12-08-09 In the Chinese classic Chuangtze, there is a legend like this: Once upon a time, a gigantic（巨大的） fish named Kun lived in the northern sea. No one knew how large it actually was. This fish could change itself into the enormous bird called Peng,...