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On 31 October 2017, Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA confirmed that crude oil had escaped from its Amuay refinery, one...

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Beneath the iron-grey waters of Ryder Bay, on the western Antarctic Peninsula, one of the Southern Ocean's most abundant large...

The University of Victoria is set to strengthen its research capacity in two strategically important fields—ocean sustainability and preventative health—thanks...

For decades, the most trustworthy thermometer for planet Earth has not hung in a weather station on land. It sits,...