Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:05:52 +0000
The elaborately outfitted OceanXplorer research vessel is a former oil industry asset repurposed for science, education, and the environment.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 05:38:19 +0000
World Ocean Day is observed on Saturday, June 8. It’s a tradition that the United Nations started celebrating in 2008, as managing ocean ecosystems for resilience is essential to a flourishing human population and global biodiversity. Towns and cities and organizations across the globe are commemorating World Ocean Day with … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:28:25 +0000
Recently I hosted Professor Amy Wagoner Johnson, a US materials scientist who is leading a global research project on coral reef restoration on my podcast Redefining Energy – Tech. In the theme of providing transcripts of presentations I’m giving in various places for people who prefer the written word, this is … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:25:18 +0000
After decades of foot-dragging by petrochemical stakeholders, solutions to the ocean plastic pollution crisis are beginning to emerge.
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Read moreCredit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:15:32 +0000
Simulations performed on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed new insights into the role of turbulence in mixing fluids and could open new possibilities for projecting climate change and studying fluid dynamics. The study, published in the Journal of Turbulence, used Summit to model the dynamics of a […]
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 18:35:22 +0000
Higher sea surface temperatures disrupt the mixing of nutrients and oxygen that is key to supporting life. They have the potential to alter the ocean’s crucial role in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 17:25:10 +0000
Scientists tend to focus on the levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere as the causes of global heating. Yet most of the excess heat added to the environment since the start of the Industrial Revolution has been absorbed by the ocean, which covers 70% of the planet. The ocean is like the […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 14:44:54 +0000
Researchers at UCLA have devised a novel way of removing carbon dioxide from the world’s oceans simply and affordably.
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 16:30:05 +0000
Native Floridians have struggled adapting to life as the timeless quality and charm of old Florida are being lost as a result of overdevelopment. That same overdevelopment contributes to the factors that support red tide’s continual growth. Many of us suffer from climate change grief — in particular, the loss of something in nature in […]
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:15:27 +0000
The way we talk about the nature of ocean temperature change over short and long timescales is crucial. What language choices can clarify marine heatwave distinctions in order to help communities and ecosystems?