Ocean

5 articles

- Environment
The Ocean in Motion
- By Yvonne Bang
- June 19, 2015
How Earth’s seas get around.
- Environment
The Hated, Invasive Parasite That’s Actually a Key Part of Its Ecosystem
- By Brandon Keim
- April 13, 2015
Sea lampreys showing off their unusual mouthsJoanna Gilkeson/USFWS Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Several years ago, a young man bow-fishing on New Jersey’s Raritan river spotted a long, thin creature in the murky water. He shot the animal through the neck, reeled it in, and posed for photographs. […]
- Technology
How to Make a Microcosm of the Ocean
- By Eliza Strickland
- July 15, 2014
The FloWave tank performing “party tricks” for a gathering of leaders of the UK marine-renewable-energy sector.FloWave Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Every day on Canada’s Atlantic coast, just northeast of Maine, a gargantuan amount of water rushes through rocky cliffs into and out of the Bay of Fundy. […]
- Environment
When Waste Becomes Home
- By Andrew Santella
- November 1, 2013
Sea life settles on plastic.
- Geoscience
As the Earth Turns
- By Stephen Cass
- July 9, 2013
Whether measured in milliseconds or megayears, the world is in constant motion.

The Ocean in Motion