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Oceanography
- OceanographyOne ship's 1870s voyage turned up around 4,700 new species of marine life.
- Earth's energy budgetThe top few meters of Earth's oceans hold more energy than the entire atmosphere.
- Sea level riseSea level has risen more than 125 meters since the Last Glacial Maximum roughly 20,000 years ago.
- Atlantic meridional overturning circulationIn October 2024, 44 scientists warned the Atlantic's overturning current could collapse within decades.
- Coral reefA coral reef occupies less than 0.1% of the world's ocean area, an expanse about half the size of France. Yet at least 25% of all marine species make their homes there. That lopsided arithmetic defines the coral reef, an underwater…
- OceanThe ocean still supplies half of Earth's oxygen. It also gave the planet its atmospheric oxygen.
- Deep-sea explorationIn 1960, two men reached the deepest point on Earth and found fish. It upended a century-old theory.
- Ocean heat contentThe oceans have set a new heat record every year for the past eight years. The upper 2000 meters hit a new high in 2024.
- Ocean temperatureIn 2022, the global ocean reached its hottest temperature ever recorded by humans.
- Rogue waveA rogue wave was measured by an instrument for the first time at 15:24 UTC on the 1st of January 1995. The place was Unit E of the Draupner platform, a gas-pipeline support complex in the North Sea. It stands about 100 miles southwest of…