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Listening to the deep

February 12, 2015

We know more about the surface of the Moon and Mars than we do about the ocean’s seafloor. With water encompassing 63.78 million square miles, the oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, with the world’s largest body of water, the Pacific Ocean, covering roughly one third.

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Breaking icebergs blast out noise

August 07, 2014

Iceberg disintegrations make the oceans noisier for months, and in the low frequencies that might affect marine mammals.

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