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THERE ARE VERY FEW THINGS ÁNGEL LEÓN HASN’T DONE WITH THE FRUITS OF THE SEA. In 2008, as a young, unknown chef, he took a loin from one fish and attached it to the loin of another, using collagen to bind the two proteins together. He called them hybr

ONE HUNDRED MILES SOUTHEAST OF GALVESTON’S muddy shoreline, the Gulf of Mexico becomes a dazzling, vibrant blue. Deep below the surface, salt domes protrude from the seafloor and some of the healthiest coral reefs in the world have formed on them, ma

AMID A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ANOTHER DISASTER WAS unfolding early this year beneath the ocean waters off the coast of Australia. Thanks to climate change, surface water temperatures across the Great Barrier Reef had hit record highs. By April, the damage

At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Smithsonian paleontologist Doug Erwin took the podium to address a ballroom full of geologists on the dynamics of mass extinctions and power grid failures—which, he claimed, unfold in the sa

Diving hundreds of metres below the surface of the ocean off the coast of the Philippines, scientists came across a bubbling hotspot of carbon dioxide. And their research suggests that this newly discovered vent might help us predict how coral reefs

SPACE Scientists and science-fiction writers have long suggested that the safest place to build a base on Mars might be in lava tunnels created by volcanoes that are now extinct. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a magnetic field that protects against

Vanessa Barragão is a Portuguese textile artist who upcycles yarn from the textile industry. Her work raises awareness about the fashion industry’s damage to the planet. Simultaneously, she honors the slow fashion of the past by practicing ancestral

Coral reefs around the world face intense pressure due to overfishing, pollution and climate change. In a new study, researchers assessed 1800 tropical reefs around the world. They found that just 5 per cent of the reefs studied meet the combined goa

An underwater research vessel has stumbled upon a gargantuan coral reef, standing like a monolithic tower off the coast of Northern Australia. According to scientists at the Schmidt Ocean Institute, who are conducting a year-long expedition of the oc

Beneath the azure waters lies a lost colony. What was once a community teeming with marine life is now a deserted ruin. Skeletal remains are all that’s left where there once stood towering mountains filled with thousands of inhabitants. Dolphins, sea

THERE ARE VERY FEW THINGS ÁNGEL LEÓN HASN’T DONE WITH THE FRUITS OF THE SEA. In 2008, as a young, unknown chef, he took a loin from one fish and attached it to the loin of another, using collagen to bind the two proteins together. He called them hybr

CRUISING IN SCUBA GEAR 20m beneath the ocean’s surface, examining clump after clump of fist-sized ‘reef bursts’, as I call them, is a meditative pursuit. These tiny patches of habitat on coral reef walls, on the outermost seaward slopes of reefs, inc

Bette Willis 2017 bleaching at Mission Beach Reefs. If you've never seen Australia's Great Barrier Reef, now you never might. At least not alive. Less than a month ago PopSci reported that the Great Barrier Reef had experienced devastating bleaching

The popular tourist destination is now a hot bed of murder, collusion and environmental destruction.

James Cook University will oversee the development of a smart weed spraying robot that could reduce herbicide usage on sugarcane farms in Great Barrier Reef catchment areas by at least 80 per cent. The two-year project, funded by a $400,000 grant thr

In my experience, every charter has a kind of a theme to it, often encapsulated in a single moment. For me, during a recent weeklong charter off the coast of Belize that moment came toward the end of our first day out. We’d left the Sunsail base (sun