Hurricane Patricia was a surprise. The eastern Pacific hurricane strengthened explosively before hitting the coast of Mexico, far exceeding projections of scientists who study such storms. A... Read more
Conservation scientists say there needs to be a new approach to protecting offshore marine reserves. Illegal fishing in marine reserves will be a major focus at the IUCN World Parks Congress... Read more
New management is needed for the planet’s most important common resource IN 1968 an American ecologist, Garrett Hardin, published an article entitled “The Tragedy of the Commons”. He argued... Read more
The strongest trade winds have driven more of the heat from global warming into the oceans; but when those winds slow, that heat will rapidly return to the atmosphere causing an abrupt rise... Read more
Five hundred miles southeast of Hawai’i, in international waters far out of sight of any land, there are vast mineral resources 5,000 meters below the sea. Manganese nodules, rich in c... Read more
His Ocean Cleanup Project aims to utilize the oceans’ natural gyres to collect plastic waste. Environmental activism is an easy buzzword, but there are few true movers and shakers who are do... Read more
When enough raindrops fall over land instead of the ocean, they begin to add up. New research led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that when three atmospheric pat... Read more
The noise caused by the waves can injure and impair many different species of fish and marine wildlife. East Asia and the Northwestern Pacific are home to some of the world’s biggest and mos... Read more
In addition to the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER itself, Cameron is kicking in nearly $1 million to help WHOI scientists and engineers make the sub’s technology more widely available for deep-sea... Read more
The wave-powered sub Papa Mau not only set a record while crossing the Pacific Ocean autonomously, it also studied rogue waves and other marine phenomena invisible to eyes in the sky When th... Read more
After a year at sea, Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider has set the record for the longest distance traveled by an autonomous robot. In November of last year, Liquid Robotics dropped four of... Read more
“Not for 55m years has there been oceanic disruption of comparable severity” IN 1998 a rise in sea temperatures caused by El Niño, a periodic eastward surge of warm Pacific water, caus... Read more
The Wave Gliders could set a Guinness World Record More than 500 years after Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition crossed the Pacific Ocean on its way to circumnavigating the globe,... Read more
Tuvalu, Tonga, the Maldives, the Cook and the Solomon Islands are all losing the battle against the rising seas Artificial islands sounds like a science fiction storyline, yet for the... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a K... Read more
