The World's Oceans

• Fresh Facts: The Renewal of the Ocean Crust
• Ice Station SHEBA: A Cold Look at Global Warming
• Subsea Quakes Yield Lode of Data
• 24-Mile Break Occurs in Antarctic Ice Shelf
• Water Implicated in Earth's Wobble
• Understanding Loggerhead Turtles' Internal Compass

Chesapeake Bay

• Cause of Record Turtle Deaths a Mystery
• Chesapeake Swimmers Catch Turning Tide
• Patuxent River's Oyster Brigade: Science on the Half Shell
• Survey: Small Fish Population Hits Historic Low
• Oystering in the Bay: Proud Tradition, Scarce Resource

Around the Nation

• Clinton Extends Ban on Offshore Drilling, Curbs on Overfishing
• Schoolchildren Name New Navy Ship
• Strong Protections Urged for Pacific Salmon
• In Cape Cod, a Deadly Stranding of Dolphins
• Washington Post stories from the past two weeks
• Recent stories from the Associated Press

Man & the Seas

• Sunken Treasure: Searching for the Civil War Ship 'Monitor'
• Plumbing the Depths of Ocean Trivia: National Ocean Sciences Bowl
• A Chilling Theory About the Titanic
• Undersea Cables Carry Growing Rivers of Data
• Beach Erosion: Man vs. Sand
• Geographical Destiny: Tropical, Landlocked Make Poor Combination
• Whitbread Sailing Race: The Furthest Thing From a Pleasure Cruise
• Whitbread 'Round-the-World Photo Gallery