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The Ocean Has a Leak: Scientist Accidentally Spotted Bubbles Rising From a Hole Deep Inside the Pacific

Although bubbles on the ocean floor usually indicate hydrothermal vents teeming with life, this spring stands apart.
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Marine heat wave known as ‘the Blob’ returns to Pacific, but so far spares Oregon and Washington

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific ...
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Marine heat wave known as ‘the Blob’ returns to Pacific

Beyond disrupting the ocean’s food web and fisheries, the underwater heat wave, known as “the Blob,” can alter weather on land thousands of miles away. Since May, an ever-shifting mass of overheated ...
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Scientists Left Puzzled After Finding Billion-Year-Old Secrets Deep in the Pacific Ocean

Several structures, a.k.a. tectonic plates, seemed to be sitting there, untouched since the evolution of Earth billions of years ago.

The Blob Returns: Marine Heatwave Stretches 5,000 Miles Across the North Pacific

If you follow climate news, you likely remember something called "the Blob." It's a massive marine heat wave, and it's back.

The ‘blob’ is back — except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the water around Japan to the US West Coast. The abnormally warm “blob” of ocean water ...