Global Warming Is Breaking The Link Between Two Major Oceans
What happens in one ocean doesn’t necessarily stay there. For centuries, changes over the tropical Pacific have traveled…
Why Australia’s weather is seeing a soaking while a record El Niño is forming
El Niño is synonymous with drought in Australia, but another rainband is lining up to soak the nation…
Grain-sized fossils have solved a 113-million-year-old mystery, linking volcanic carbon dioxide to one of the ocean’s largest plankton extinctions
Tiny fossils have helped scientists crack a Cretaceous cold case. Using chemical signals preserved in microscopic shells, Northwestern…
Tiny reef fish flourished beside islands filled with seabirds; where rats removed the birds, the entire underwater food chain took another route
Ecosystems work with each other no matter how far or disconnected they are. Animals and birds have impacts…
Six helicopters will drop 550 tons of poison on this island: Why a project is spending $10 million on this exercise |
Mice are some of the most invasive animals on the planet. Quick to enter and escape they have…
Dragonfly Migration Rivals Seabirds: 100 Species Confirmed in First Global Count
An American emperor dragonfly accelerates streaks of smoke down when it flaps its four wings. The photo has…
5.3-million-year-old ‘whale graveyard’ has been hiding at the bottom of the Indian Ocean: Scientists call it ‘unexpected’ |
Researchers discovered a vast whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean’s Diamantina Zone, containing 476 fossil cetaceans and five…
For 5 million years, whales have come to this place in the Indian Ocean to die
The graveyard is the Earth’s deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses and the unique…
World’s largest, deepest, oldest whale graveyard discovered in Indian Ocean
The world’s largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists,…
World’s biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia
To come across a “whale fall” — the decomposing body of the marine mammal that has fallen to…
Middle East states eye transport resilience with new logistics corridor to bypass Hormuz
Middle Eastern governments are dusting off decades-old proposals for overland oil and gas pipelines, and urgently drawing up…
On This Day | Japan hit by worst earthquake and tsunami in its history in 2011 – from the SCMP archive
This article was first published on March 11, 2011. By Greg Torode, Martin Wong and Agencies A farm…