A decade of weather extremes
The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in- and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming.
Some Gulf Dolphins Severely Ill After Gulf Oil Spill
Bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, are showing signs of severe ill health, according to NOAA marine mammal biologists and their local, state, federal and other research partners.
Gulf Oil Spill Culprit for Heavy Toll on Coral
After months of laboratory work, scientists say they can definitively finger oil from BP’s blown-out well as the culprit for the slow death of a once brightly colored deep-sea coral community in the Gulf of Mexico that is now brown and dull.
Fishing boat lost in Japan tsunami reaches Canada
A fishing boat lost in the massive Japanese tsunami a year ago has turned up off Canada’s west coast. The ship is the first, and largest, item confirmed to have crossed the Pacific Ocean to North America from Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
Barbuda Sandmining Nears Disaster Levels
There have been renewed calls for an end to sand mining operations in Barbuda, as this activity has reached a stage that could spell an environmental disaster for Barbuda island..
World Cleanup 2012
“There’s 100 million tons of illegal garbage lying around the world. Waste is everywhere, in cities, beaches, oceans, forests. To change this we have to come together and create a real global change.” In 2012, from 24th of March until 25th of September, the Cyber-environmentalists team of World Cleanup 2012 invites all the people and countries to be a part of these Olympic Games for the clean world.
Global Partnership for Oceans: to Reverse Patterns of Degradation, UN
A powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests are joining together under the banner of a Global Partnership for Oceans to confront widely documented problems of over-fishing, marine degradation, and habitat loss.
Discovery Sheds New Light on Wandering Continents
Although the basic process that drives plate tectonics —the movement of the Earth’s crustal plates—is understood, many details remain a mystery…
Amount of Coldest Antarctic Water Near Ocean Floor Decreasing for Decades
Oceanographers find that, the coldest deep ocean water, Antarctic Bottom Water, has been disappearing at an average rate of about eight million metric tons per second over the past few decades, equivalent to about fifty times the average flow of the Mississippi River. The world’s deep ocean currents play a critical role in transporting heat and carbon around the planet, thus regulating our climate.