1. One Ocean

• PCB contamination in Icelandic orcas: a matter of diet
• Sharks use Earth's magnetic fields to guide them like a map
• Antarctica remains the wild card for sea-level rise estimates through 2100
• Ice core chemistry study expands insight into sea ice variability in Southern Hemisphere
• Catastrophic sea-level rise from Antarctic melting possible with severe global warming

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

• “It’s deep. It’s dark. It’s elusive.” The ocean’s twilight zone is full of wonders.
• WHOI partnership means $3 million to investigate how climate change affects oceans
• How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change
• With A Drone and Patience, Scientists Track Endangered Right Whale in Cape Cod Bay
• If there is an oil spill tomorrow, will we be ready? Woods Hole engineer says yes

6. Humans and Ocean

• Douglas Coupland’s Tree Snag adds the finishing touch to Grosvenor Ambleside - Vancouver Sun
• Dollar General And Dollar Tree Looking To Open 1,600 New Stores - 94.5 PST
• Secrets of the Whales - Living On Earth
• Exploring OC: Protected tidepools offer glimpse at life between land and sea - OCRegister
• Seafloor survey finds thousands of barrels at DDT dumpsite off Los Angeles coast - University of California

7. Exploration