Children ask why the sea is salty, and the standard answer — rivers carry salt into it and evaporation leaves the salt behind — is correct as far as it…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be the most misunderstood environmental subject there is, and the misunderstanding is remarkably specific. People do not merely have a vague sense of it;…
Most claims about remote places come with an asterisk. The remotest inhabited island still has a harbour and a supply ship. The remotest town has a road, or at least…
In the Southern Hemisphere summer of 1997, a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was doing routine work: monitoring an array of underwater microphones, or hydrophones, positioned to…
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There are a handful of places on Earth so visually striking that a single photograph of them is instantly recognizable, and the Great Blue Hole is one of…
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Off the northwestern coast of Scotland, in the wild waters of the Atlantic, lies a small cluster of remote, uninhabited islands known as the Flannan Isles. On the largest…