1. One Ocean

• New research unlocks the mystery of New England's beaches
• Projections of US high-tide flooding show rapid increases and extreme months
• New geochemical study confirms cause of end-Permian mass extinction event
• An acceleration of coastal overtopping around the world
• Sulfur enhances carbon storage in the Black Sea

2. Shape Earth

3. Weather and Climate

4. Make Earth Habitable

• Earthquake Births New Island off Pakistan
• New posts in the Earth Matters blog - Key Science Points from the 2013 IPCC Report
• Global Patterns of Carbon Dioxide
• New posts in the Earth Matters blog - A View Inside Super Typhoon Usagi
• Super Typhoon Usagi

5. Life and Ecosystems

• World – Massive plankton blooms with very different ecosystem impacts
• A Clever Robot Spies on Creatures in the Ocean’s ‘Twilight Zone’
• Maine’s having a lobster boom. A bust may be coming.
• Mystery of rubber bales that washed up on Palm Beach may be solved
• Massive plankton blooms with very different ecosystem impacts

6. Humans and Ocean

7. Exploration