Meet the Cyberpunk Albatrosses Scanning for Secret Explosions
Recording infrasound on land isn’t particularly tricky; you can place sensors pretty much anywhere. Not so in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere: Sensors…
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Humans Have Broken a Fundamental Law of the Ocean
On November 19, 1969, the CCS Hudson slipped through the frigid waters of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia and out into the open ocean. The research vessel was…
Bright Spots in the Global Coral Reef Catastrophe
Astonishingly, however, by 2010 global coral coverage was roughly back to pre-1998 levels. “That’s good news,” says Souter. “Even though reefs got knocked…
The Cutest Way to Fight Climate Change? Send in the Otters
A sea otter is a ravenous ecosystem engineer of the highest order. To stay warm and healthy, they eat a quarter of their body weight a day, repeatedly diving…
As the Arctic Warms, AI Forecasts Scope Out Shifting Sea Ice
For generations, the inhabitants of the Arctic have counted on seasonal sea ice, which grows and retreats during the year. Polar bears and marine mammals…
This Groundbreaking Simulator Generates a Huge Indoor Ocean
“It's a complex mixture of chemistry, biology, and physics,” says Scripps oceanographer Grant Deane, co-principal investigator of Soars. “That's one of the…
Did Venus ever have oceans? — ScienceDaily
The planet Venus can be seen as the Earth's evil twin. At first sight, it is of comparable mass and size as our home planet, similarly consists mostly of…
Climate change threatens base of polar oceans’ bountiful food webs: As warm-adapted microbes…
The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate…
Waverider buoys collect data on the powerful clean energy available in our oceans
This banana-yellow Waverider buoy will spend 12 months off North Carolina’s coast,…
Urchin Slayers Are Trying to Save the Underwater Rainforest
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Grant Downie had been out of the Pacific Ocean for about 10 minutes…