EDITORIAL: Sea Life Boils, Chills With Hope
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By The Wisconsin State Journal  Dec. 12--The resilience of life on Earth continues to amaze and inspire.   And a little reassurance is probably needed, given such threats as  terrorism, global warming and bird flu.
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OTTAWA (CP) - What began with word of a minor fire aboard a Canadian submarine in the North Atlantic has grown into an ongoing high seas drama carrying devastating personal consequences and a potentially high political cost.
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  The tragedy of four fallen fishermen has become a rallying cry for politicians hoping to reform marine regulations they say threaten the lives of men at sea with too-restrictive limits on the number of days boats may head out.
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Humans may have lungs rather than gills but we feel the primal tug of the tide. Consciously or otherwise, we know weâre really all wet.
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By Heath, David  Seagrasses, an ecologically important group of flowering plants that have adapted to life submerged in seawater, are in dire need of a targeted global conservation effort to protect them and lhc services they provide, according to an international team of scientists.
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Scientists recently returned from a deep-ocean expedition say they are a step closer to understanding how life thrives around cracks spewing scalding water at the bottom of the ocean.
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Some coral reefs are proving surprisingly resilient to global warming because of heat-tolerant algae that live with them.
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Experts said the study provided a glimmer of optimism in the face of bleak scientific assessments of the vulnerability of ecosystems.
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By Celia Hall, Medical Editor and Roger Highfield, Science Editor. Disease could kill as many along south Asia&#39;s stricken coasts as have been killed in the disaster unless clean water and medical help reaches
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It's the time of year when some people feel stabs of regret for the passing of summer . . . but that would not be saltwater anglers around here. Along much of our coast, the fishing is sensational now. The blues are schooling to feed, the bass are bigger and feeding voraciously, and bluefin tuna -- full-grown and footballs -- ...
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Training her binoculars on a dark patch of floating seaweed, Gena Bentall gasped. After searching for sea otters all day, the research biologist had spotted one: a mother with a pup on her belly, but the otter's face was mauled and dripping blood and a male was hot on her tail.
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On a cloudy day in  the Chukchi Sea near Alaska's northwestern coast, two marine  biologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoological  Institute pulled up a small crab that could be proof the Arctic  is growing warmer.
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By Matt Weiser and Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--The fate of a water supply serving two in three Californians has come down to tides, temperature and the mysterious movements of a tiny fish.
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A frozen sea found on Mars is one of the most promising places to look for life on the Red Planet, scientists say.
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By Chris Bailey  As the last tiny drop of water slides from the resting oars, a profound silence seeps into the soul, a silence so rare to the modern ear that it carries more disquiet than peace.
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The ice-cloaked Arctic Ocean was once apparently a warm, biologically brewing basin, scientists say.
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The December 26 tsunami devastated lives around the Indian Ocean's coastline but, for science at least, there was a silver lining.