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• Satellites collect data on sea temperatures
A mere 2-degree rise in typical summertime water temperature can stress corals, causing the tiny marine creatures that form reefs to expel algae living in their tissues. The so-called bleaching upsets the symbiotic nature of the ecosystem by exposing ...
• Court wrangles over Navy sonar, whales
Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in February that the Navy must limit sonar use when ships get close to marine mammals. Richard Kendall, representing the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the justices that the Navy is managing ...
• Divers reach 'Titanic of New England'
It wasn't until 2002 that the ship's location in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, an area about the size of Rhode Island between Cape Ann and Cape Cod, was firmly established by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration team ...
• Green jellyfish protein scientists win Nobel
Osamu Shimomura, a Japanese Researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., takes a phone call at his home after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday.   ...
• Warrior mind training’ helps troops stay calm
At North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune, the Marine Corps’ main base on the East Coast, the courses are offered through the post naval hospital’s “Back on Track” program, which helps wounded sailors and Marines recover mental health issues. ...