1. One Ocean

• Short wind turns with strong cooling effect
• Plastics, pathogens and baby formula: What's in your shellfish?
• New method lets scientists peer deeper into ocean
• Coastal cities leave up to 75% of seafloor exposed to harmful light pollution
• Extensive gas leaks in the North Sea: Abandoned wells

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

• ROVs: A marine robotics paragon.
• USA: Twelve Offshore Wind R&D Projects Selected for Funding
• Search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden ‘traps’ in ocean waters
• Scientists are trying to save coral reefs. Here’s what’s working.
• New report details profitability, growth of marine economy

6. Humans and Ocean

• Review: 'Migrations' by Charlotte McConaghy - Los Angeles Times
• California’s Bold Conservation Push Is Part of a Hopeful Global Trend - World Politics Review
• Should Plants and Animals That Relocate Because of Climate Change Be Considered Invasive? - Smithsonian Magazine
• Evolution turned this fish into a 'penis with a heart.' Here's how. - Live Science
• Longtime shark photographer urges caution, not hysteria, after fatal attack - National Geographic UK

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