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20-Year-Old Woman 'Most Likely' Bitten By Shark in Waist-Deep Water at Jones Beach, Officials Say

A young woman who suffered "minor lacerations" to her foot while swimming in the ocean at Jones Beach, New York, most likely received them from being bitten by a tiger shark, officials say.

Latin Times · Jun 28, 2025

How Europe’s appetite for farmed fish is gutting Gambia's coastal villages

Gambian fishermen are watching their future disappear. Their catches are shrinking, their costs are climbing and their boats are increasingly idle. Much of the fish they once relied on is now hauled away by foreign trawlers – not to feed people, but to fatten farmed salmon, seabream and seabass in…

Radio France Internationale · Jun 28, 2025

Eleven of North America’s best under-the-radar islands, from paradise beaches to a wilderness at the end of the earth

Our list includes a spot in Texas with views of SpaceX launches, an island where wild horses roam, a retreat once frequented by America's wealthiest families and a car-free haven in Mississippi with zero light pollution

The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2025

80 Everyday Facts That People Realized Not Everyone Knows

How common is common knowledge?

Bored Panda · Jun 26, 2025

'Pulsing, like a heartbeat': Rhythmic mantle plume rising beneath Ethiopia is creating a new ocean

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent apart.

LiveScience · Jun 26, 2025

I Explored Socotra Island — A Place Unlike Anywhere Else (29 Pics)

Socotra is a Yemeni-owned island located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia. It is one of the world's most isolated islands of continental (non-volcanic) origin.

Bored Panda · Jun 26, 2025

Remote cave discovery shows ancient voyagers brought rice across 2,300km of Pacific Ocean

In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands – at an ancient cave site on Guam in the Mariana Islands of western Micronesia.

The Conversation · Jun 25, 2025

Our oceans are in trouble: how to move beyond the outrage and start taking real action

Our oceans are in trouble. Catches from many of the world’s fisheries are declining, with some fishing practices destroying enormous areas of the sea bed. Habitat loss through coastal development threatens many coastal ecosystems including estuaries and mangroves, which are vital nurseries for many fish species.

The Conversation · Jun 25, 2025

The deep Earth discovery that could put a new ocean where a continent is

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The Independent UK · Jun 25, 2025

Greenpeace survey finds ‘beautiful’ and vulnerable whale species in areas marked for deep sea mining

Vulnerable marine life is getting caught in the crosshairs of our electrifying world, the new study suggests.

Euronews · Jun 25, 2025