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Loss, decay and bleaching: Why sponges may be the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for impacts of marine heatwaves

Marine sponges were earlier thought to be more resilient to ocean warming

Fatal warming

Banded morwong first bred faster, may now disappear

Ocean’s dramatic past

Zeroing in on the evolution of the North Atlantic

India's western coast in trouble

West coast threatened

Flaws in India's tsunami warning system

On hold

The great Pacific garbage patch

Sharper divide

Sea level rising unevenly in the Indian Ocean

Science & Technology - Briefs

Sonorous submarine: Tech used to study fish in Goa can help understand how sea life responds to climate change

Certain fish communities are loud during the day, while others are more vocal at night

Record ocean warming in 2021, coastal communities should be on alert: Study

This heating will continue until we reach net-zero carbon emissions, say experts

Shell’s Arctic drilling support ship heads back to dock

Hole in the icebreaker vessel’s hull to be repaired at Oregon, US

Houses of coral

Mystery of underwater hill formation solved

Warning Stop Tsunami Stop

Undersea telecom cables could soon help avoid such disasters

Iodine drives substantial ground-level ozone loss in Arctic, climate change altering natural processes: Study

Such high concentrations of Iodine was not seen in Arctic before, say scientists

Weakened Lehar crosses Andhra coast at Machillipatnam

The very severe cyclonic storm lost its intensity by Thursday morning

Temperatures in northern Africa likely to rise between February and April despite La Nina

Eastern and southern regions of the continent may be wetter than usual  

Global Eco Watch: Pregnant Gaur killed in Kerala; 6 held

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology 

El Niño won’t threaten this monsoon: IMD

While IMD says the climatic phenomenon will be ineffective, other forecasters disagree

The great Indian monsoon and its friends

A look at the association between the southwest monsoon and its companions

The child gives oceans a fever

The El Nino of 1997 affected sea surface temperatures over the Indian Ocean

What ails India's wind pattern study?

A vicious cycle exposed