Planet Earth stories
There are 111 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Oceans".
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- 1. Painting underwater pictures with sound
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Silent marine robots that record sounds underwater are allowing researchers at the University of East Anglia to listen to the oceans as never before.
- 2. On the way to plastic-free oceans
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Four days since leaving port, Dr Katsiaryna Pabortsava reaches her destination. She's in the middle of the North Atlantic, thousands of miles from land, and she's looking for microplastics.
- 3. Our changing Arctic
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The Barents Sea is a wild, dark, stormy old ocean. Who would want to be out there on a ship in January?
- 4. Solving the mystery of Shetland's tsunami sands
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Shetland's wild, rugged landscape has long fascinated scientists, but for one British Geological Survey marine geologist, it's the seabed around the islands that have ignited his interest.
- 5. X-rays of Scotland's seabed reveal how Ice Age ended
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Scientists have X-rayed sediment cores taken from the seabed around the coast of North West Scotland and Shetland to solve the mystery of what happened to Scotland's ice sheet at the end of the Ice Age.
- 6. Microplastics in the bellies of creatures living at the bottom of the ocean
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Around half of marine creatures living at depths of more than 2,000 metres in the North Atlantic could be eating microplastic material, marine scientists have discovered.
- 7. Down in the bottom of the deep blue sea
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Deep sea covers most of our planet and yet we know more about the surface of the moon than its dark depths.
- 8. Uncovering changing climate in the UK's seas, coasts and oceans
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Climate change is having important effects on UK seas and coastlines and these have been brought together by the UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) in their report published today.
- 9. New £10 million Changing Arctic Ocean research programme kicks off
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More than 20 researchers from 16 UK research institutes, including British Antarctic Survey, will join forces on board the RRS James Clark Ross to investigate the knock-on effects of rapid warming and sea-ice loss in the Arctic region.
- 10. Devil rays get worldwide protection, and genetic tools could catch out illegal traders
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Devil rays, close cousins of the enormous manta rays, are stars of nature documentaries. These charismatic creatures are under threat from humans, specifically, because of the gill plate trade.
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