Liquid Ocean in Space

The heart on the planet Pluto has a frozen surface but also has evidence that shows that there might me an ocean 60 miles deep. After finding that Pluto was ocean locked with it's largest moon, scientists were trying to find the reason behind this. The heart shape on Pluto was where a meteor hit way long ago, but then the planets core bounced back to level out both sides(isostatic compensation) and filled the core with nitrogen ice. But for the planets side to be locked with the moon it requires a much larger mass which they believe is a super salty ocean.

Wietering, Hanneke, "Plutos 'Heart' Hints At Deep, Underground Ocean", Space.com  23 September, 2016. http://www.space.com/34179-plutos-heart-hints-at-deep-underground-ocean.html

Old Geezer

392 year-old shark discovered in Greenland, is now the longest living vertebrate animal to live. How was the sharks age determined? The Greenland shark, also known as the grey shark, grows 1 cm per year. The average shark is 5 meters long. But then they tested for bomb-pulses of carbon-14, which was left behind from nuclear bomb testing in the 50's.

Using the information of the testing for
carbon-14 and the growth curve of the shark, they correlated the two to estimate its age. This is the second longest living animal, behind the Icelandic clam, Ming,  that lived to 507 y/o.

Shell Oil Spill

90 mi from the Louisiana Coast
May 12th, 2016.

Shell spills 90,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. So why isn't this as big in the media as the BP oil spill in 2010? The Coast Guard has a threshold of 100,000 to consider it a "major spill" and declared that there was no environmental damage, although the span was 2 miles by 13 miles. The reason we should be even more worried though is just because of the fact that it's labeled as a minor spill; which means less money for research and clean up, and less action against the company who polluted our ocean.