Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 15:26
A dramatic volcanic eruption in the Pacific Ocean has created a tiny new islet in Japan`s territorial waters, officials said Thursday, the first time in decades the nation has seen the phenomenon.
Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 19:03
Researchers have finally cracked the mystery about how albatrosses manage to stay in the air when they travel 10,000 miles in a single journey without flapping their huge wings too much.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 20:47
Australia on Sunday said it would give Sri Lanka two patrol boats to tackle people-smuggling operations in the Indian Ocean, hoping they can detect vessels before they leave the Asian nation`s waters.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 13:06
A new research has suggested that a natural shift to stronger warm El Nino events in the Pacific Ocean may be responsible for a substantial portion of the global warming.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 16, 2013, 15:30
Researchers have said that the dominant, abundant corals that have wide distributions are much affected by global changes in climate and ocean chemistry mostly affect.
Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 18:09
An iceberg the size of Manhattan has broken off a glacier in Antarctica and could survive long enough to drift into international shipping lanes, scientists said Thursday.
Last Updated: Monday, November 11, 2013, 09:39
A new study led by NASA of "atmospheric river" storms from the Pacific Ocean may help researchers better predict major winter snowfalls that hit West Coast mountains.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 22:21
Maldives presidential election is heading for a second round run off as no candidate has managed to obtain 50 percent of the vote, the latest data reported by the media showed here Saturday.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 12:03
Australia said on Saturday it will take a boatload of asylum-seekers at the centre of a high-seas stand-off with Indonesia to its Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 11:33
Scientists have found that young oysters depend on the sound of the reef when deciding where to settle in for the rest of their lives.
Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 18:05
Deeper regions of the Pacific Ocean are warming 15 times faster than they did during the previous 10,000 years, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 13:42
China is planning a new research station in Antarctica, the state oceanic administration said Friday.
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