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    Did Gulf Spill Boost "Dead Zone"?

    Did the BP oil spill sap oxygen from the Gulf of Mexico? Scientists are weighing new findings against years of "dead zone" data.

  • Picture of a diver freeing sea turtles from a fishing net.

    Ocean Photo Contest Winners Named

    Netted turtles and a finned whale shark feature among the winning frames in a 2010 marine-conservation photo contest.

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    A Lighting Breakthrough

    General Electric announces an LED heat-management innovation, but it's rivals race to get to the market first.

  • A figure walks into the path of blowing sand on the crest of a dune.

    Winds Slowing Worldwide?

    Surface winds are slowing far and wide, a new study says. The alleged culprits: breeze-breaking new forests.

  • Port-au-Prince Bay, Haiti, ten days after a massive earthquake.

    L.A. Has Higher Tsunami Risk?

    Southern California, Seattle, and Taiwan are some of the places where tsunamis may be more likely than thought, a new study says.

  • A manta ray in a marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Gulf Manta Rays Affected by Oil Spill?

    The little-studied Gulf of Mexico's manta rays could be their own species—and victims of the oil spill, scientists say.

  • A hyrax.

    Critters' Pee Changes Climate Record?

    The crystallized urine of the rodent-like rock hyrax is filling in gaps in our understanding of climate change, experts say.

  • ** FILE ** In this Feb. 24, 2006 file photo, a wind turbine stands generating power next to the Hull, Mass., High School in the shadow of Boston. The Obama administration faces a tough choice in the bitter, long-running fight over plans to build the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod. Two of President Obama's key allies are on opposite sides: Sen. Edward Kennedy, a leading foe of the project, and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

    A Push for Offshore Wind

    Google and a team of investors and energy firms aim to an offshore wind power revolution to the United State's East Coast.

  • A Hungarian fire fighter cleans a street flooded with toxic mud in Devecser, Hungary, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. The toxic red sludge that inundated three Hungarian villages reached Europe's mighty Danube River on Thursday but no immediate damage was evident, Hungary's rescue operations agency said. The European Union and environmental officials had feared an environmental catastrophe affecting half a dozen nations if the red sludge, a waste product of making aluminum, contaminated Europe's second-longest river after bursting out of a factory's reservoir. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

    Toxic Spill Latest Insult to Danube River

    As cleanup continues in Hungary, experts weigh in on the environmental damage and future risks of mining and industry along Europe’s rivers.

  • A flea is seen in a winning picture from the 2010 Small World Microphotography Competition.

    Best Micro-Photos of 2010

    A zebrafish nose, a wasp nest, and a mosquito heart took home top honors in the 2010 Small World Microphotography Competition.

  • An airplane takes off from Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan.

    Plane Exhaust Kills 10,000 a Year

    You're more likely to die from exposure to toxic pollutants in plane exhaust than in a plane crash, a new study says.

  • Picture of explorers in Mexico's giant Cave of Crystals

    Return to Giant Crystal Cave

    It looks like Superman's fortress and is nearly as hard to get into, but that hasn't kept explorers from uncovering new secrets in and around Mexico's deep, deadly Cave of Crystals.

  • Pink salmon lurk underwater in a stream.

    Photos: "Spirit Bear" Region at Risk

    In the home of the elusive "spirit bear," nine Coastal First Nations people await a decision on a pipeline to carry Canadian oil to sea for export to Asia.

  • Picture of a man in Hungary walking through his yard, which is flooded with red toxic sludge.

    Photos: Hungary's Toxic Sludge Flood

    "This is huge," says one toxicologist of the failure of a toxic-sludge reservoir in Hungary. "If you are trapped in it, it will kill you."

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    5 Surprising Sea-Survey Finds

    Six-hundred-year-old tube worms and other oddities help put the brain-boggling, just-ended, ten-year Census of Maine Life in perspective.

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    Video: Biggest Marine Census Complete

    The Census of Marine Life has identified more than 6,000 potentially new species during a decade of exploring the world's oceans.

  • A school of spawning orange roughies on a seamount near New Zealand

    Undersea Mountain Pictures

    Swarms of orange fish and other deep-sea creatures have been spotted during a five-year survey of the world's underwater mountain ranges.

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