Animals

Exploring the ocean’s deepest depths, Cabo Pulmo, Great white shark genome, collapsing bluff, and thwarting cactus thieves

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Brave new efforts to explore the ocean’s depths Only three people have ever been to the bottom of the ocean, and none of them were there for very long. In 1960, Swiss explorer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy lieutenant Don Walsh rode in the bathyscaphe Trieste to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the …

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Sea of Shadows, Drones on the vine, landslide science, let’s talk earthquakes, Walter Munk.

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Sea of Shadows takes on poaching in the Sea of Cortez One of the best documentary films at Sundance this year was the conservation epic Sea of Shadows, about poaching in the Sea of Cortez. Directed by Richard Ladkani (who also directed Ivory Game, about elephant poaching), and executive produced by Leonardo DeCaprio.   The film follows Mexican …

Read moreSea of Shadows, Drones on the vine, landslide science, let’s talk earthquakes, Walter Munk.

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