Deepest U.S. Reef Found Off Florida Coast
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Marine researchers have discovered the deepest coral reef ever found in the United States in about 250 feet of water off the Florida coast.
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By Wood, Paul  Beyond Kauai stretch hidden islands, coral reefs-and our newest national monument  DAWN LIGHT ILLUMINATES the dunes of Barking Sands beach, the westernmost point on Kauai, which is the northernmost island in the main Hawaiian chain.
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Scientists combing through undersea fauna off Indonesia's Papua province said Monday they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.
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By ERIN HERNANDEZ  Just about every beach in Florida can lay claim to "sugar-white" sand and clear water, but the Emerald Coast has received some pretty impressive recognition lately.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine.  It's not sunken treasure or a Spanish galleon but rather nature's bounty: rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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The Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" -- a swath of water with such low levels of oxygen that marine life can be threatened or killed -- could be the largest since measurements began in 1985, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them," Conrad Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said at a briefing.
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Divers have finished mapping a twisting subterranean waterway that winds through 95 miles (153 kilometers) of the Yucat&#225;n Peninsula's limestone caverns.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at its Florida home base on Wednesday after a grueling but successful 15-day construction mission that prepared the International Space Station for new laboratories.
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By MICHAEL GRACZYK GALVESTON, Texas - Famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard is leading a team of scientists heading into the Gulf of Mexico for a weeklong examination of Texas' ancient shoreline to see if anybody may have lived there.
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Scientists have discovered a new species of brushy coral that flames like a white and pink Christmas tree hundreds of feet below the Channel Islands.
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By Paul RogersSTAFF  They are creeping along the bottom of Monterey Bay, hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. In the cold blackness, they stretch up to 15 feet high and 200 feet long.   Nobody knows exactly how they got there or what drives them.
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Science & environment: Giant sea creatures have been found by Australian scientists in the deep waters around Antarctica
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The U.S.S. Macon, the high-tech wonder of its day, was discovered on the ocean bottom in June 1990 after several searches.
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More than 500 scuba divers and snorkelers listened to a local radio station's four-hour broadcast Saturday, piped in beneath the sea in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
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The Gulf of Mexico discovery, which could boost US reserves by half, set a new depth record.
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Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.