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For generations, sailors around the globe have reported a mysterious phenomenon: Vast areas of the ocean glow steadily at night, sometimes for months on end. The light is bright enough to read by and is oddly similar to the green and white aura cast by glow-in-the dark stars that have decorated children's rooms. Stretching over ocean space as broad as 40,000 square miles, the light can, at times, even be seen from space.

Map Shows Vast Regions of Ocean Are Warmer.

Building better ocean and climate models with salinity data.

Unprecedented warm sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies were observed off the west coast of Australia in February-March 2011. Peak SST during a 2-week period were 5°C warmer than normal, causing widespread coral bleaching and fish kills. Understanding the climatic drivers of this extreme event, which we dub "Ningaloo Niño", is crucial for predicting similar events under the influence of global warming. Here we use observational data and numerical models to demonstrate that the extreme warming was mostly driven by an unseasonable surge of the poleward-flowing Leeuwin Current in austral summer, which transported anomalously warm water southward along the coast. The unusual intensification of the Leeuwin Current was forced remotely by oceanic and atmospheric teleconnections associated with the extraordinary 2010-2011 La Niña. The amplitude of the warming was boosted by both multi-decadal trends in the Pacific toward more La Niña-like conditions and intraseasonal variations in the Indian Ocean.

A University of Queensland scientist is calling for volunteer divers to photograph the underside of manta rays in waters off the Western Australian coastline and upload them to Facebook as part of a research project.

A University of Queensland scientist is calling for volunteer divers to photograph the underside of manta rays in waters off the Western Australian coastline and upload them to Facebook as part of a research project.

The potential to better observe the weather and climate over the Indian Ocean has received a major boost with the arrival this week of EUMETSAT's Meteosat-8 satellite in its new position of 41.5°E.

The potential to better observe the weather and climate over the Indian Ocean has received a major boost with the arrival this week of EUMETSAT's Meteosat-8 satellite in its new position of 41.5°E.

University of Hawaii at Manoa's Philip THOMPSON of the Sea Level Center examined 25 years of interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean surface.

University of Hawaii at Manoa's Philip THOMPSON of the Sea Level Center examined 25 years of interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean surface.

BoBBLE drones scour the oceans for data.

The world's first sex-based study with insights into the abundance and movement patterns of bottlenose dolphins acts as an impetus for future studies.

The world's first sex-based study with insights into the abundance and movement patterns of bottlenose dolphins acts as an impetus for future studies.

Endangered green turtle numbers only half of official estimates.

Mumbai Sea Amongst Most Polluted In The World, Average Of 68.83 Debris Items Are Found Per Sqm.

Meet the WA scientists racing to stop fatal shark attacks.

Seabirds have distinct individual personalities that affect where they feed and how likely they are to prosper, a pair of recent studies suggests.

Australian PM 'Very Confident' Pings Come From MH 370 Black Box.

Flight MH370: New search images reveal seabed details.

MH370 search shifts on new data analysis.

Vessels have cut fuel costs by slowing down and taking a more direct route closer to the Somali coast, shows study.

Vessels have cut fuel costs by slowing down and taking a more direct route closer to the Somali coast, shows study.

Saving Coral Reefs Depends More on Protecting Fish Than Safeguarding Locations.

Saving Coral Reefs Depends More on Protecting Fish Than Safeguarding Locations.

Flight MH370: Malaysia releases raw satellite data.