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Message in a Bottle - The Pacific Trash Patch

Seabirds are starving with bellies full of trash. Fur seals in New Zealand poop shards of yellow and blue. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of Texas.

Ultra-Rare Shark Found, Eaten

In just a short time, one of the rarest sharks in the world went from swimming in Philippine waters to simmering in coconut milk.

Carbon Dioxide Drop And Global Cooling Caused Antarctic Glacier To Form

Global climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago.

Google's Atlantis Discovery Explained

Google has taken to its official blog to further explain why those funny markings found off the coast of Africa are not the lost city of Atlantis.

A Zero-Emissions City in the Desert

Outside Abu Dhabi City in the United Arab Emirates construction has already began on Masdar, a $15 billion dollar investment by the Abu Dhabi Government to create a zero-waste, zero-emission city. It is slated to be done 2016.

Strange fish has a see-through head

A bizarre deep-water fish called the barreleye has a transparent head and tubular eyes. Since the fish's discovery in 1939, biologists have known the eyes were very good at collecting light. But their shape seemed to leave the fish with tunnel vision.

Bad news: Ocean Less Effective At Absorbing Carbon Dioxide

In the Southern Indian Ocean, climate change is leading to stronger winds, which mix waters, bringing CO2 up from the ocean depths to the surface. This is the conclusion of researchers who have studied the latest field measurements carried out by CNRS's INSU, IPEV and IPSL.

Weathering Climate Change

Ralph J. Cicerone, one of the nation's leading experts on climate change, is an atmospheric chemist who has made major contributions to understanding ozone depletion and the behavior of greenhouse gases.

Discussion: Novels that blazed a trail for Obama: What you think of this list?

excerpt:"If ignorance is the main cause of racism then creative writing has been one of the leaders in the crusade for all men and women to be treated equally. The hatred, the crimes, the misunderstandings, the clashes of culture - they are all exposed on the printed page.

Google Earth Plumbs the Ocean Depths

When Google Earth was introduced in 2005, it showed how fun digital mapping could be, allowing users to zoom over the planet's continents and explore their most spectacular features.

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