One of the most popular space-related misconceptions is that Earth is the only planet, indeed the only place, in the solar system that has water. Can you have a liquid water ocean for 6 billion years and not have life in it? What kind of life would develop inside a moon? This week we will be talking about oceans on Earth and oceans in space. MORE>>

Last week, we discussed how we have been at a loss to explain why the Japanese government is so pro-whaling. This week an answer presents itself. A statement made by one of the pro-whaling delegates implies that whales are the reason that worldwide fish stocks are plunging. MORE>>

We’ve come a long way in our battle to not pollute and degrade our environment in the last two-hundred years or so. One of the biggest victories in the environmental battle was a 1982 international ban on commercial whaling. The motion passed in the International Whaling Commission by one vote and we all believed that the slaughter of the world’s largest mammals was at an end. Or was it? MORE>>

It is the belief in many primitive cultures that if you learn the true name of someone or something, it gives you power over that person or thing. This week on The Deep, we are going to give a name and a face to one of the world’s most dreaded killers. No, it’s not the great white shark or crocodiles, it isn’t a tsunami or earthquakes or typhoons. It’s a killer that can strike anywhere, at anytime and no one on Earth is safe MORE>>