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Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour
Mussels grip onto rock using stretchy fibres with self-repairing molecular bonds. Mimicking the trick has inspired an extremely tough and elastic new material
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Oysters can 鈥榟ear鈥� the ocean even though they don鈥檛 have ears
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La Ni帽a forecast may mean even worse Atlantic hurricanes in 2018
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New York should prepare for 15-metre storm surges by 2300
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Hundreds of Japanese species floated to the US on tsunami debris
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Energy from evaporating water could rival wind and solar
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Could we store carbon dioxide as liquid lakes under the sea?
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Box jellyfish will destroy future oceans by gobbling up the food
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Eight low-lying Pacific islands swallowed whole by rising seas
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Giant ocean fish farms to solve food security? There’s a catch
A study says there is enough ocean to grow 100 times the fish we eat, but mass fish farming is not the simple solution it seems, says Olive Heffernan
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‘Mother’ coral reefs are breathing life into their neighbours
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Weird creatures are spreading polluting plastic through the sea
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There are almost 100 new volcanoes hiding under Antarctic ice
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Mystery of missing tsunamis explained by geological model
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