Oil Platform Reefs
Offshore oil platforms serve as artificial reefs, protecting lots of marine life.
Buggy Plants Roundup
Atlantic salmon can escape from Pacific fish farms, vitamin D prevents bone fractures, and organic foods contain more phytochemicals.
Shark Test
A DNA test can identify species of sharks from just a small piece of fin or flesh.
Ocean Glass
Diatoms use their glass shells to soak up carbon dioxide, thus keeping it out of the atmosphere.
Salty Ocean
How did the ocean get salty? (from rocks on land that get dissolved by rain and washed into the sea)
Seafloor Energy
Making a fuel cell that's powered by ocean sediment and seawater
Beach Foam
Why does the incoming tide bring in what looks like soap suds? (Marine microorganisms get whipped up by the waves into a foam.)
Sharks and Sea Lions
Sharks outcompete sea lions for a limited supply of fish in the north Pacific Ocean
Lobster Sniffing
How a lobster uses his antennae to sniff the water around him.
Whale Singing
Looking for the source of one set of mysterious sonar sounds, researchers find the source of another set of mysterious sonar sounds -- the songs of dwarf minke whales in Australia.
Marine Reserves
National Fish Parks benefit not only fish species, but fishermen as well.