1. One Ocean

• Seawalls: Ecological effects of coastal armoring in soft sediment environments
• Summer sea ice melt in the Arctic
• Challenging prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized
• Strength of tectonic plates may explain shape of the Tibetan Plateau
• Ancient Italian fossils reveal risk of parasitic infections due to climate change

2. Shape Earth

3. Weather and Climate

4. Make Earth Habitable

• New posts in the Earth Matters blog - July Puzzler
• Cyclonic Rotation off Portugal
• Wildfires in Montana
• Detwiler Fire
• Fires Along the Adriatic Coast

5. Life and Ecosystems

• CapeCod.com: Lt. Gov. Polito, Local Officials Visit WHOI’s DunkWorks Lab
• Cape Cod Times: WHOI lab and Pocasset company field test new mapping technology
• CapeCod.com: New Systems Developed at WHOI Bring 3-D Immersion to Seafloor, Shipwrecks
• Cape Cod Times: WHOI opens new marine robotics prototyping facility
• WKMG Orlando - News 6: 10 Ways Drones Are Changing Your World

6. Humans and Ocean

• Squirrel's Biting Spree in Brooklyn Park Prompts Flurry of Warnings - New York Times
• Top officials harden against climate science since confirmation - E&E News
• New Chip Lord film shows Miami Beach fighting—and losing to—a rising ocean - The Architect's Newspaper
• The Upside of Rotting Carcasses | Science | Smithsonian - Smithsonian
• Are You Afraid of Sharks? Don't Be - Scientific American (blog)

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