At 2,750 meters in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: an odd transparent sea cucumber, Enypniastes, creeping forward on its many tentacles at about 2 cm per minute while sweeping detritus-rich sediment into its mouth.
Science

Researchers find hundreds of unknown marine species

Ambitious census of ocean life uncovers huge 'Dumbo'-eared octopus and deep-sea creatures that feast on toxic gases

From Saturday's Books section

Review: Going Rogue, by Sarah Palin

Reviewed by Laura Penny

Life: Live Better

How to avoid holiday panic

Our weekly guide to your life: We break down what needs to be done, and when, for every week until Christmas

A devil rolling a coin. Other coins can be seen at the background
Globe Investor: In quotes

What market watchers are saying this week

We track down the best quotes of the investing community.

Herbert Kronzucker is a researcher at the University of Toronto's Scarborough Campus who is leading a team of researchers who are trying to help solve the problem of world hunger by developing a type of rice that can thrive in salt water.

Agriculture

Solving hunger with super-rice

Three billion people depend on rice. But the grain is being ravaged by a serious salt problem in the world's soil. A Canadian researcher hopes to find a solution with his breed of super grains that resist salt, giving farmers the key to surviving the global food crisis

Two decades on, child poverty persists with no solution in sight

Why is it that nearly 10 per cent of Canadian kids live below the poverty line, even as parliament pledged to end child poverty?

Republican offers a green hand to Canada

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who dared Republicans' wrath with his environmental stand, is seeking allies north of the border

Microsoft, News Corp. said to be weighing Web pact

Deal would see Wall Street Journal and other papers remove their content from Google

Vancouver 2010

Olympic torch visits Anne's world

Cavendish residents gather on the old Macneill farm, site of Lucy Maud Montgomery's fictional Green Gables

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