1. One Ocean

• More than 50 newly discovered lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
• Clouds dominate uncertainties in predicting future Greenland melt
• Damage to the ozone layer and climate change forming feedback loop
• Ocean swimming alters skin microbiome, increasing vulnerability to infection
• Scientists map huge undersea fresh-water aquifer off U.S. Northeast

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

• Mining climate clues from our whaling past
• Knee-Deep
• Barbara Allen Bunker
• NASA Makes Dual Investment in Ocean Worlds Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Study Finds No Direct Link Between North Atlantic Ocean Currents, Sea Level Along New England Coast

6. Humans and Ocean

• How AI and drones are trying to save the Great Barrier Reef - TechRepublic
• Microplastics Hurt Fauna From Zooplankton To Humpback Whales - Forbes
• Questions that Disney movies never answer - Looper
• The Harmful Effects of Captivity on Orcas - Psychology Today
• Tell Me More: Bringing Puffins Back to Maine - Tufts Now

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