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Oceans

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Investigative Journalism

The Outlaw Ocean

Each chapter profiles those who live on the edge of maritime laws, in the gray areas that are so often unenforceable by land governments.

C.J. Ciaramella | 12.27.2019 6:30 AM

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Plastic Pollution

Study: Styrofoam Might Last Only Decades, Not Millennia, in the Ocean

Researchers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution say that sunlight can break down polystyrene within a few decades.

Christian Britschgi | 10.21.2019 4:05 PM

Hotter water

Oceans

Oceans Are Getting Hotter and Ice Sheets Are Melting Faster, Says New Report

Sea level rise is accelerating and marine heatwaves are becoming more common

Ronald Bailey | 9.25.2019 5:45 PM

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Maryland

Maryland Passes Bill to Outlaw Foam Containers

If Gov. Larry Hogan signs the measure into law, Maryland will be the first state to issue a ban on foam food containers.

Billy Binion | 3.18.2019 2:15 PM

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Seasteading

First Seastead in International Waters Now Occupied, Thanks to Bitcoin Wealth

Two libertarians now have a private home off the coast of Thailand-proof of concept for a world of more competitive governance and greater ocean environmental health.

Brian Doherty | 3.1.2019 11:25 AM

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Hurricanes

Is Climate Change Making Hurricanes More Destructive?

Not yet in the United States, new studies suggest

Ronald Bailey | 1.17.2019 10:20 AM

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Oceans

Widely Reported Alarming Ocean Warming Study Is Wrong

Skeptic of catastrophic climate change projections is right about significant errors in alarming new study.

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2018 10:45 AM

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Oceans

An Alarming New Study Suggests the Oceans Are Warming 60 Percent Faster. A Statistician Disagrees.

Is the study's worst-case climate scenario wrong?

Ronald Bailey | 11.8.2018 12:05 PM

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Oceans

The Oceans Are Trashed. Can Volunteer Scuba Divers Help Clean Them Up?

Divers are taking ocean clean-up into their own hands.

C.J. Ciaramella | 10.2.2018 12:15 PM

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Earth Day and the Plastics Pollution Problem

Plastic debris in the oceans is classic example of the tragedy of the commons.

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2018 10:00 AM

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Temperature Trends

Hottest November in Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update

El Niño Pacific Ocean warming event continues to push temperatures to record highs

Ronald Bailey | 12.8.2015 12:11 PM

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Oceans

How The Feds Lied to Help Kill an Oyster Business in California

Brian Doherty | 1.21.2015 4:11 PM

Temperature Trends

Global Warming Heat Not "Hiding" in the Deep Ocean After All

Ronald Bailey | 10.7.2014 12:03 PM

Oceans

New Waterworld Order

Real offshore havens are on the horizon.

Kenneth Silber | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Oceans

The Wave of the Future; the Future of the Waves

Laissez faire and the struggle for the oceans

Robert Poole | 12.1.1969 7:58 AM

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