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How do fishes scratch their itches? It turns out sharks are involved

Imagine you’re a big yellowfin tuna, miles from shore out in the blue, swimming around carefree, until you start to feel a little itch near your eye. Maybe it’s just a scratch that’s healing, or maybe it’s a tiny crustacean nibbling into your skin.

The Conversation

228 were killed when Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic. Their families could finally hear why

A Parisian court will hear conflicting expert testimony about who is to blame for the worst disaster in Air France’s history, but families of the 228 victims tell The Independent are determined to show the crash’s human toll, writes Bevan Hurley

The Independent UK

Bizarre faceless sea creature dragged from bottom of ocean by earthquake

Merica Lynn summoned her boyfriend Adoni Tegner back from his quad bike to look at the huge freaky creature sea monster which was found washed up on a beach in Florence, Oregon, in the US

Daily Mirror

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Could an underwater microphone in Pacific Ocean hold the key to protecting whales?

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Sitting 280 feet below water on the floor of the Pacific Ocean just 26 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, a credit-card-sized underwater microphone represents the latest attempt to keep Earth’s largest mammals safe from human-caused destruction.

Tribune News Service

Microphones dropped into ocean off Greenland to record melting icebergs

Artist Siobhán McDonald will turn recordings into an acoustic installation exploring humanity’s impact on the ocean

The Guardian - UK

Huntington Beach oil spill: $50 million settlement agreed to for locals hurt financially

Amplify Energy will pay $50 million to individuals and businesses that lost money last year when nearly 25,000 gallons of oil flowed into the ocean from of a ruptured pipeline about 4 miles off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, according to terms of a preliminary class action settlement filed…

The Orange County Register

Should NSW follow WA’s lead and introduce a rebate for personal shark deterrent devices?

A NSW MP is urging his government to create a rebate scheme for individuals and remove shark nets from the state's beaches.

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Henrik Fisker Shows Off Ocean Electric SUV’s Rotating Screen Infotainment

Watching that massive 17.1-inch central screen move from portrait into landscape orientation is quite something.

InsideEVs

Fisker May Accelerate US Factory Search Due To New EV Tax Credit

Fisker is among a number of automakers hoping to manufacture EVs on our shores to ensure that their customers can take advantage of the new US EV tax credit.

InsideEVs

Greenland ice sheet melting faster than expected and it could impact Belfast sea levels, says glacier expert

"Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is one of several factor that contributes to global sea level rise"

Belfast Live

Tamil refugees on Chagos Islands fear deportation under Rwanda-type plan

UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed country

The Guardian - UK

Amount of ocean heat found to be accelerating and fuelling extreme weather events

The rate of warming in the top 2km has doubled from levels in the 1960s, review finds

The Guardian - AU

NJ casino, sports betting, online revenue up 7% in September

New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won nearly $485 million from gamblers in September, up nearly 7% from a year earlier

The Independent UK

‘Everything is saturated’: what’s driving the latest floods in eastern Australia

‘Atmospheric river’, La Niña, negative Indian Ocean dipole, climate change – experts say they are all part of the story

The Guardian - AU

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Tara sails back to France after global voyage checking plankton and pollution

After a voyage of 70,000 kilometres around the globe, the schooner Tara arrived in Brittany on Saturday. The scientists who took part in the two-year mission gathered thousands of samples of marine micro-organisms in a bid to better understand ocean plankton and the impact of pollution.

Axios

Drones and satellites are making better, life-saving hurricane forecasts

A warming world will require more accurate hurricane forecasts to save lives and property.

Tribune News Service

Fast, alone and around the world: A sailor from Baltimore prepares for solo nonstop voyage

BALTIMORE — Donald Lawson will awaken early next year, alone on a fast-moving boat. With the headsail line in his hand, he’ll check radar and weather displays before searching the ocean for signs of trouble. Despite having slept no more than 30 minutes, he’ll rise and begin making adjustments as…

Reuters

Quake strikes in Pacific off Central America, no reports of damage

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean between Central America and the Galapagos Islands on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no initial reports of damage.

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The Guardian - UK

UK accused of putting Tamil refugees at risk in Indian Ocean

MoD personnel escorted refugees away from Diego Garcia in boat with no record of having radio or lifesaving equipment, lawyers say

Tribune News Service

Atlantic Ocean becomes quiet as one-time Tropical Storm Karl dissipates

The Atlantic Ocean became quiet Saturday as one-time Tropical Storm Karl dissipated, with the National Hurricane Center issuing its final advisory for the system at 5 a.m. ET.

Inverse

In 300 million years, the planet's most iconic ocean will be gone — study

For the sake of the study, the research team ran a series of 4-D geodynamic modeling on a supercomputer to simulate how supercontinents form.

The Guardian - AU

New study reveals ‘staggering’ scale of lost fishing gear drifting in Earth’s oceans

Lost nets, lines and hooks trap wildlife for years as they float in the ocean, sink to the bottom or are washed ashore

Zenger

Asteroid That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs Triggered Months Long Earthquake

The quake is said to have released 50,000 times more energy than that created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

Asharq Al-Awsat

SpaceX Ferries Astronauts Back to Earth after Half-year Away

Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday, ending their nearly six-month space station mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida. Wet and windy weather across Florida delayed their homecoming. SpaceX and NASA finally gave the all-clear on Friday, and the three Americans and one Italian…

Bangkok Post

Vietnamese trawler seized, crew arrested

A navy vessel has intercepted and seized a Vietnamese fishing trawler and arrested five crew members off the southern province of Songkhla for dredging the ocean bed for sea cucumbers in Thai waters.

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