Discovered: One in three ocean species remain unknown to science; biofuels could be worse in a spill than oil; robots powered by rat heart cells; katydids have human-like ears below their knees.
Discovered: High CO2 levels make office workers dumb; drought drags down GDP; there's no reason why green farming can't make money; warming oceans drive plankton toward the poles.
Discovered: Stanford research encampment fueled solely by sun; Japanese lake key to updated carbon dating; expiring tax credit could stall wind power; global warming changes sea acoustics.
Playing off of James Cameron's recent underwater adventure today is webcomic xkcd, which offers its nerdy followers a to-scale look at the oceans' depths.
Discovered in Green: The world will get warmer by 2050, the Earth's coldest waters have been disappearing for decades, the ice sheet collapsed because of warm water, and the potential of algae biofuels.
Discovered in green: The ocean is getting warmer, the coral reef might be okay, actually, probably not, and stop fishing so much.
Titanic director James Cameron successfully completed a trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, setting a world record for the deepest ocean dive by a single person.
Discovered: Unprecedented ocean acidification, weed does and doesn't impair memory, a strike against wine snobs and california isn't that fat anymore.
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