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The U.S. Navy recently launched a drone from a submerged submarine, successfully demonstrating a new way for the military to use unmanned vehicles to conduct surveillance missions in the future.

Results of a rapid response marine geophysical survey off Long Island following Hurricane Sandy show that despite the devastation on land, Sandy did not significantly disrupt the offshore barrier system that protects Long Island from long-term...

The risk posed by tsunami waves generated by Canary Island landslides may need to be re-evaluated, according to researchers.

Less than 20 miles from the site where melting ice exposed the 5,000-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman, scientists have discovered new and compelling evidence that the Italian Alps are warming at an unprecedented rate.

When first presented with the concept of Precision Diving, I was skeptical.  I had been an avid diver for 13 years already, and had been a Scuba Instructor for 9 of those years.  Of course, I belie...

Experts and conservationists have hit out at WA's policies to prevent shark attacks, which include the establishment of offshore kill zones.

The Australian government will push through with sending a customs ship to the Antarctic Ocean to monitor the Japanese whalers that left last weekend. This after Australian Environment Minister Gre...

The practice of throwing surplus fish into the sea will be banned in Europe from 2015 following a vote by the European Parliament

Deputy Zoo Director Marcia Woodard said the zoo's white, female tiger escaped through an underwater break in the fencing around 3:30 p.m. into the zoo's Asian hoof stock exhibit, which houses gazelles and another animals.

A groundbreaking study reveals that, if left unchecked, recent trends in the loss of forests to development will undermine significant land conservation gains in Massachusetts, jeopardize water quality, and limit the natural landscape's ability to...

Different fish can cause different allergies when eaten. Research into protein provides new insight into these fish allergies.

The uplift of two mountain ranges in Central Asia beginning 30 million years ago expanded the Gobi Desert and set Central Asia on its path to extreme aridity, a new study suggests.

Oceanographers are tracking seismically sensitive mermaids through the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. Continue reading →

A veteran Great Lakes shipwreck hunter said he and his crew have found the wreck of a wooden steamer that sank in 1861 in Lake Huron.

AN APPLICATION to continue dumping dredged material from Devonport Naval Base has re-ignited a campaign calling for an end to using a south west beach as the disposal area for "toxic...