Wide Angle: Our Changing Oceans : Discovery News

Rise of the Undead Sea

Plans are afoot to divert waters from the Red Sea into the Dead Sea, but preliminary experiments in mixing the waters are yielding strange results.

Antibiotics Breeding 'Super Bugs' in Sharks, Fish

Top predators from Belize to Massachusetts carry drug-resistant forms of bacteria. They could be passing it back to humans on our dinner plates.

Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010: Wide Angle

Follow our continuing coverage and analysis of the Deep Horizon sunken oil rig in the Gulf and its environmental impacts.

Slide Show: The Great Atlantic Garbage Patch

Researchers went looking to see if the North Atlantic Ocean held a giant "garbage patch" like the infamous swirl of plastic in the Pacific. What they found was staggering.

Of Plastics and Whales. And Other Marine Life.

The stomach of a gray whale found near Seattle last week was chock full of garbage, including lots of plastic. Plastic is the most abundant form of trash in the region's waters, research has found, and it can be lethal.

What's an Ocean Garbage Patch?: Video

How much trash is in our oceans? And does it look more like a floating landfill or a plastic soup? Jorge Ribas asks a researcher about her recent trip into the Atlantic Garbage Patch.

IM Interview: Waves of Plastic

Last summer, Miriam Goldstein led a research cruise to the North Pacific Gyre to see how much plastic there was and whether it was making its way into the food chain. What she found astounded her.

Citizen Scientist Trawl for Ocean Plastic

Lending nets out to amateur pollution-hunters will help researchers get a handle on how much plastic is littering the world's ocean.

Is Antarctica Home of the Next Miracle Drug?: BIG PICS

Bill Baker, a biochemist from the University of South Florida, is the medicine man of Antarctica. He and colleagues dive beneath the ice on the trail of the next great miracle drug that could cure cancer, or stop swine flu dead in its tracks.

Cool Jobs: Oceanographer

It's a job that never gets tiresome because there's always something totally new.

Animal Oceanographers

Tracking tech reveals the secret lives of sharks, squids, whales, turtles, seals and the oceans themselves.

whale sharks are elusive and mysterious beasts

The Skinny on Whale Sharks

Little is known about Whale Sharks -- they're hard to study because of their extreme migratory patterns. Kasey-Dee Gardner finds out some interesting facts about the gentle giants of the sea.

Wide Angle: Our Changing Oceans