1. One Ocean

• Why deep oceans gave life to the first big, complex organisms
• Coral larvae use sound to find a home on the reef
• Secrets of iron storage in algae
• Hypoxic dead zones found in urban streams, not just at the coast
• Warming, sea-ice loss: Arctic Report Card tracks region's environmental changes

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

• The San Diego Union-Tribune: Scripps aquanauts cram into mini-sub for daring trips into the deep blue sea
• CapeCod.com: WHOI Scientists Studying Phytoplankton to Improve Satellite Operations in Space
• F3 News: Visitor's from the Ocean's Twilight Zone
• The New York Times: Visitors From the Ocean's Twilight Zone
• CapeCod.com: WHOI Study Finds Climate Change Likely Caused Migration of Ancient Civilization

6. Humans and Ocean

• Plastic pollution is wreaking havoc on the marine ecosystem - Searchlight Newspaper
• Review: Netflix's supernatural sea thriller ‘Tidelands’ is B-picture TV with random acts of nudity - Los Angeles Times
• Stirling University study to probe disease spread by plastic - The National
• An Incredible New Ecosystem Has Been Discovered at The Bottom of The Ocean - ScienceAlert
• Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland's coast - The Conversation AU

7. Exploration

• The 'Curious' Robots Searching for the Ocean's Secrets
• New generation of underwater drones makes waves for citizen scientists
• Exploring vast submerged America, marine scientists discover 500 bubbling methane vents
• There's an Enormous Natural Gas Seep Along the West Coast
• Images from the deep unveil weird and wild sea critters