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Our partners at NJ Spotlight News reported on the 16th Annual Future of the Ocean Symposium that took place at Monmouth University on April 13, 2023. While the scientific consensus is that climate ...

An analysis of oxygen levels in Earth's oceans may provide some rare, good news about the health of the seas in a future, globally warmed world. In recent decades, levels of life-sustaining oxygen in ...

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On a calm morning in May, Brianna Beaulieu, a doctoral student in marine biology at the University of Western Australia, and several researchers from around the world boarded two research vessels ...

An analysis of oxygen levels in Earth's oceans may provide some rare, good news about the health of the seas in a future, globally warmed world. A study analyzing ocean sediment shows that ocean ...