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News Release Pollution

WHOI helps lead groundbreaking study on the human and ocean health impacts of ocean plastics

For the first time, leading researchers from the fields of healthcare, ocean science, and social science have collaborated to quantify plastic’s considerable risks to all life on Earth. The Minderoo-Monaco…

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Ocean Encounters: Jellies

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News Release Water Cycle

Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? Not Melted Meteorites, According to Scientists

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News Release Ocean Plants

New study uncovers unprecedented declines in iconic kelp forests along Monterey Peninsula, with glimmers of hope in Oregon and Mexico

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New technology tries to protect whales

CBS Mornings | February 21, 2023

Drilling Deeper Into Ocean Floor in Search for Origins of Life

The Wall Street Journal | February 19, 2023

Newly released video shows Titanic wreckage before decades of deterioration

The Today Show | February 16, 2023
Purple urchins devour remaining kelp along the Monterey Peninsula, California (Photo by Patrick Webster)
News Release Ocean Plants

New study uncovers unprecedented declines in iconic kelp forests along Monterey Peninsula, with glimmers of hope in Oregon and Mexico

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Ocean Encounters: Jellies

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Plastic waste is ubiquitous in the global environment. A new study is highlighting the human and ocean health impacts of plastic waste in the ocean ecosystems. (Tom Kleindinst © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
News Release Pollution

WHOI helps lead groundbreaking study on the human and ocean health impacts of ocean plastics

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News Release Twilight Zone

WHOI’s first children’s book “Where the Weird Things Are” now available

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Oceanus Magazine Seafloor & Below

With deep-sea mining, do microbes stand a chance?

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News Release Water Cycle

Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? Not Melted Meteorites, According to Scientists

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News & Insight Sustainable Ocean

The U.N. looks to protect open waters under new agreement

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News Release Climate & Weather

WHOI Opens 2023 SXSW Conference

Nanine Linning’s La Mer. (Photo by Brooke Trisolini, courtesy of Boston Ballet)
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Collaborates with Boston Ballet on New Production Focusing on the Ocean

OOI engineers and mooring operations staff work together to deploy a section of a Pioneer Array mooring over the aft deck of R/V <em>Neil Armstrong</em>. (Photo by Allen Smith, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Oceanus Magazine

On the Move

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Discovering La Mer

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News Release Ocean Chemistry

A Better Understanding of Gas Exchange Between the Atmosphere and Ocean Can Improve Global Climate Models

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Event: Off the prow and onto the deck

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News & Insight Marine Mammals

Watching out for whales

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Video Life at Vents & Seeps

Ocean Encounters: Hydrothermal Vents

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The sounds of science

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News Release Ocean Observatories

Ocean Observatories Initiative‘s Pioneer Array Relocating to Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight

WHOI’s Matt Long and Jeff Coogan dive to check the status of underwater instruments near an eelgrass meadow,
News Release Coastal Ocean

Excess Nutrients Lead to Dramatic Ecosystem Changes in Cape Cod’s Waquoit Bay

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Oceanus Magazine Ocean Life

Is the Great Barrier Reef making a comeback?

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News Release RMS Titanic

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution releases rare video footage from the first submersible dives to RMS Titanic

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News & Insight RMS Titanic

Watch: Explore the Titanic shipwreck with us!

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Alvin visits the wreck of the Titanic

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News Release Climate Change

Paleoclimate data show land will warm more than sea