Oceanus

What’s causing a contagious cancer to spread among clams along Cape Cod? WHOI scientists investigate. Read the full story: https://go.whoi.edu/puzzlingmollusk

Not long ago, Victorian-age explorers celebrated the notion of an ice-free Arctic in hopes of finding faster shipping routes between Europe and Asia. Instead, they would find an impassable ice field and treacherous glaciers. Today, warming from climate change is on track to create these once-fabled ice-free days in the Arctic.  Has the once-celebrated prospect of an ice-less Arctic come back to bi...

Startling scientific reports show how a warming planet could ground the Gulf Stream—a major cog in the Atlantic Ocean's circulation—to a halt. But is the likelihood of such a shutdown being exaggerated? WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Todd weighs in. Read the full story written by Alison Pearce Stevens: https://go.whoi.edu/gulfshutdown

Oceanus writer Hannah Piecuch details an intimate encounter with creatures of the open sea while on a swim near Cornwall, England. Read the full story here: https://go.whoi.edu/underwaterstarfield

WHOI economist Yaqin Liu weighs in on the scourge of illegal fishing and what can be done to catch offenders. Read the full story written by Daniel Hentz: https://go.whoi.edu/illegalfishing