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A woman in the US state of Florida was rushed to a hospital after being bitten by a shark -- with the animal still clutching on to her arm.

• 16 мая 2016, 15:29

The United States and its former Cold War foe Cuba are discussing a joint maritime reserve in waters between their countries.

• 06 октября 2015, 14:35

Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of legendary French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, emerged from the deep Wednesday after 31 days in an undersea lab off the Florida Keys.

• 03 июля 2014, 11:40

By absorbing carbon emissions from the atmosphere, the seas avert climate damage worth up to $222 billion (163 billion euros) every year, according to an estimate released.

• 06 июня 2014, 10:53

Fish are losing their survival instinct -- even becoming attracted to the smell of their predators -- as the world's oceans become more acidic because of climate change, new research.

• 15 апреля 2014, 10:53

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned royalty, corporate kings and environmental warriors that governments won't save the seas without "significant impetus" from every sphere of society.

• 26 февраля 2014, 14:26

Three icebreaking ships were Thursday hurrying to reach a Russian vessel carrying 74 people on a scientific expedition which is trapped by ice off Antarctica, with Australian authorities coordinating the rescue mission.

• 26 декабря 2013, 17:04

Investment fund Aqua-Spark is setting course to make money while promoting healthier oceans and feeding the world.

• 19 ноября 2013, 13:35

Oceans that grow more acidic through Man's fossil fuel burning emissions, can amplify global warming by releasing less of a gas that helps shield Earth from radiation.

• 26 августа 2013, 16:44

An odd underwater ballet has been unfolding in the Mediterranean port of Toulon these past few days.

• 27 июля 2013, 12:15

An exhausted British-Australian expedition recreating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat made landfall Monday after a perilous 12-day journey.

• 04 февраля 2013, 10:42

Australia Friday created the world's largest network of marine reserves, protecting a huge swathe of ocean environment despite claims it will devastate the fishing industry.

• 16 ноября 2012, 14:13

Scientists in California have shed light on a marine mystery: how diving mammals can hunt for food at great depths without getting the "bends".

• 20 сентября 2012, 11:38

Quadruple amputee Philippe Croizon swam between islands in the icy Bering Strait Friday to cross from America to Asia in the final part of a quest to link all continents.

• 19 августа 2012, 15:39

Two silhouettes cut through the water a few hundred yards (metres) from a rainy, windswept beach bordering the flat grasslands near the small Inuit community of Wales, in the far west of Alaska.

• 15 августа 2012, 12:37