The Gulf of Mexico is littered with tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells, and toothless regulation leaves climate warming gas emissions unchecked.
Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas. A modest feed additive could provide a big leverage effect.
If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing, greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand.
As the oceans continue to become more acidic as they absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, corals are under the dual stress of rising temperatures and acidity.
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The searchers, in an area about 1,150 miles west of Perth, have stumbled onto the eastern edge of a garbage gyre in the Indian Ocean.
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