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Although summer is still far away, Sustainable Surf, a California-based non-profit organization has committed to collect old foam waste using it to create new stronger, lighter boards with an ecological footprint lowered by up to 50%.
Their program, entitled Waste to Waves gives a new purpose to styrofoam, technical... |
29 December 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Shell's name is currently associated with an oil leak located 120 kilometers off the Nigeria cost. As a result, the company announced it would abandon its operations at the Bonga deepwater facility and focus on effective cleanup operations.
This decision is very important, since the company manages to obtain 2... |
21 December 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Currently, Italy has one of the most prosper canned tuna markets in Europe. The entire industry flourishes, bringing a more than decent profit to major brands operating in this line of business. A recent report indicates that 140.000 tons of tuna are sold every year. Greenpeace notes the manufacturing companies that ... |
1 December 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Starting next year, Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels group will stop serving shark fin, one of the most popular and expensive delicacies, to tourists who will stay in its hotel and resort properties. Their initiative is appreciated by the WWF, whose officials think that this movement will be embraced by other chain hotel... |
25 November 2011
04:48 GMT |
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Rising levels of CO2 emissions trigger the acidification of oceans, a process that is putting the fate of oysters in great danger in every part of the Globe. Scientists are now able to correlate high acidity with the large number of deaths among oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest.
Furthermore, biologists state t... |
23 November 2011
03:27 GMT |
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An underwater robot that can follow marine organisms over record distances and can function in the ocean for months in a row, will allows scientists to study life in the open ocean.The new robot, called the Tethys, carried out its first experiments last month, spending nearly one week at a time in California's M... |
1 November 2010
09:41 GMT |
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Panoramio, Google's geo-location photo sharing site, is adding a great new feature for scuba diving and underwater photography enthusiasts, the possibility to upload ocean images to the service."Panoramio has always been about sharing places of the world with your camera. Today we are very excited to announce we... |
28 October 2010
09:53 GMT |
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A team of researchers announces the discovery of a new fish species, which was found to exist at a depth that was previously thought to contain no such creatures. The research effort was taking place in a southeastern Pacific trench, when scientists with the project noticed the peculiar species of snailfish. The anim... |
15 October 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Google Earth for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has been updated to version 3.1 to support the new iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4th generation Retina Display, as well as to bring the ocean layer, bathymetry, and ocean surface support.“We recently announced the arrival of ocean bathymetry and ocean layer content to Goog... |
21 September 2010
08:28 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United Kingdom says that its current research effort, of peering at the geophysical and hydrological conditions below the surface of the Greenland ice sheets, are critically important for the future. They believe that this line of study could help us better understand the ensemble of ... |
7 September 2010
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Three miles off the coast of Florida, the Atlantic Ocean is home to the only underwater research laboratory and habitat in the world. Researchers here, called aquanauts, spend a lot of time submerged, studying marine life in the area. The lab is in effect a metal tube affixed to the ocean floor, which is about the si... |
26 August 2010
07:56 GMT |
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Google's mapping efforts are nothing but ambitious. It is working diligently to make Street View imagery for as many of the Earth's cities as possible. It is also aiming to have them recreated in 3D in Google Earth. The satellite imagery of even the most remote places is becoming more detailed. Yet, most of... |
8 April 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Google Earth is a great tool for exploring our planet and beyond with the new Mars and Moon data. Yet, some of the most remote and inaccessible places aren't in space but right here on Earth in the depths of the oceans. Luckily, Google opened up those places too, enabling anyone to be an undersea explorer. Flo... |
5 February 2010
11:53 GMT |
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A British aeronautical engineer, who by all accounts had too much time on his hands, discovered what could be the most important finding of the last centuries – namely, a portion of ocean floor that could be the lost city of Atlantis. He made the discovery while checking out images provided by Google Earth 5.0,... |
21 February 2009
04:42 GMT |
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In order to meet the ever increasing needs of its users, Google Earth's functionality has been enhanced with new features, among which the Ocean in Google Earth is the most important. The innovation that version 5.0 of the popular application brings will allow users to virtually dive beneath the water surface, e... |
4 February 2009
02:40 GMT |
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The thought of a cold ocean covered by an extremely thick crust of ice (some scientific theories even estimate it to measure over 100 km in thickness) doesn't really do much for the idea of the moon's supporting even the most elementary forms of life. But a new study suggests that the premises of this theor... |
11 December 2008
13:39 GMT |
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At some point, 5 billion years from now, the Sun will begin to swell and will slowly engulf the first planets in its vicinity, including our own. But life would have been obliterated long before this process actually occurred. Still, this is not necessarily a scary scenario, since while scorching our planet, the Sun ... |
11 December 2008
06:29 GMT |
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A new study on the evolution of life as related to the diversity or scarceness of some chemical compounds in the oceans may shed new light on the steps to follow in the attempt to investigate the possible presence of life in the oceans of alien worlds. Life is not restricted to water, though; instead, it involves a b... |
10 December 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Modern vision perceives asteroids more as a threat than as anything else. Plans are being made to track the movements of near-Earth objects, to detect those that may be on collision courses with our planet and to intercept those that might prove hazardous. But it hasn't always been so, shows a recent experiment,... |
9 December 2008
03:57 GMT |
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A team of technicians, led by Clayton Jones, has developed a triad of gliding robotic devices called Deep Slocum that would prove to be an essential tool in the task of exploring and monitoring the oceanic waters, providing a better insight on its characteristics. The gliders, called Ammonite, Bellamite and Coprolite... |
27 November 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The data collected by the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) device installed aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey probe helped the international group of experts who analyzed it reach the conclusion that the red planet may have been covered by an ocean in a proportion of about 33%. This result sheds new light on the decades l... |
20 November 2008
06:36 GMT |
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Contrary to what most of us may believe, scientific studies indicate that Ice Ages are not a rare phenomenon occurring every now and then for more or less long periods of time. Instead, the interglacial periods, the short spells between long, freezing epochs, are the real intruders. In other words, the tiny geologica... |
13 November 2008
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Indonesia was caught by surprise and largely affected by a massive tsunami wave four years ago, which caused approximately 170,000 people to go missing or to be found dead across the sultanate of the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, situated on the northern portion of the Sumatra island. As a result, since then, a ... |
11 November 2008
09:24 GMT |
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We have recently written a piece on the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) device that NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson threw overboard on July 23rd, 2007. Although it was not a small object, no official announcement was made so as to warn the public of the danger it might pose upon entering the atmosphere, possibly becaus... |
5 November 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Plastic, the worst kind of thrash, doesn't affect only people, as the latest research indicated, but it also has an impact on oceans and on their ecosystems, to a greater extent than one would imagine. In fact, large portions of the oceans are becoming synthetic, from all the slowly decomposing plastic items th... |
5 November 2008
09:19 GMT |
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The Switzerland-based underwater explorer and scientist who still holds the world record for the deepest dive passed away on Saturday at his residence near Lake Geneva, at the age of 86, as stated in an official release of his son's company, Solar Impulse. He worked for NASA after he performed the dive in the M... |
3 November 2008
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With the risk of sounding grim, if you ever thought of an alternative, more interesting burial instead of the regular one, guess what, some companies did too. And we're not talking about launching the remains into space or compressing the ashes into a diamond but, in fact, about a kind that could actually a... |
28 October 2008
02:49 GMT |
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Recently, about 370 penguins that mysteriously got cast adrift on northeastern Brazil's equatorial beaches have been carried back to their originating places on a Brazilian southern beach. According to a statement of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the young Magellanic were flown and release... |
8 October 2008
08:17 GMT |
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During the 1980s, the theory of ocean acidification as a result of the greenhouse effect arose and has been attempted a demonstration ever since. The recent atmospheric carbon dioxide level measurements proved it, as well as its impact on oceans. Besides the negative results of the acidification of the planet's ... |
1 October 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Although the birth of an ocean is an extremely rare phenomenon on the largest of historical scales, the geophysics is currently experiencing such an event. Even more dazzling, this occurs in one of the Earth's most inhospitable and arid regions, the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.The African continent is literally ... |
1 October 2008
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Researchers discovered that the oceans hide a small number of brine-water lakes and rivers on their floor, especially in the Gulf of Mexico region. These in turn house their own variety of life, adapted to and relying on their saline features. Thinking of what lurks beneath the ocean waves, very few people, if a... |
26 September 2008
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In an attempt to address the downfall of the planetary ocean, as well as in order to provide a live learning place for scholars or for curious people, the Smithsonian museum will house the Sant Ocean Hall, a place where both living and fossil specimens from the depths of the oceans are exposed. The deepest leve... |
25 September 2008
04:52 GMT |
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As of late, the levels of noise in the planet's oceans reached incredible levels and it doubles every decade, which affects marine mammals' breeding and feeding habits in a negative way. The relatively new sources of noise, such as ships, oil platforms (which generate seismic blasts), low-frequency son... |
24 September 2008
08:09 GMT |
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A black smoker hydrothermal vent, measuring some 12 meters in height and ejecting water reaching temperatures of more than 200 degrees Celsius into the icy oceanic waters inside the Arctic Circle, was found by researchers more than 192 kilometers north of other known vents, making it the farther north such geological... |
25 July 2008
04:58 GMT |
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The mass extinction of the marine life nearly 93 million years ago would have been most likely determined by the lack of oxygen in the oceanic waters as an intense underwater volcanic activity was triggered, says a study co-authored by Steven Turgeon of the University of Alberta. For a long time volcanism was thought... |
17 July 2008
10:29 GMT |
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For the last two centuries or so people have been continuously emitting large quantities of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere, a careless action currently considered the number one factor triggering the global warming phenomenon. The burning of fossil fuels isn't going to stop any time soon, which is l... |
16 July 2008
05:45 GMT |
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The newly discovered object, dubbed MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, is a terrestrial planet roughly three times as heavy as Earth orbiting a star called MOA-2007-BLG-192L located about 3,000 light years away from us. The finding also marks the discovery of the smallest star to have a planet orbiting around it, since it only weig... |
3 June 2008
03:32 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time until the Mountain View-based company started looking for new worlds to explore so, after reaching the earth and the sky, Google gets ready for the ocean. Elinor Mills of CNET reports that Google may be interested in developing a 3D version of the ocean which would be integrated into Goog... |
6 May 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Ten years ago, researchers discovered that Earth gives off a constant humming sound, basically imperceptible to the human ear which cannot hear sounds with a frequency below 16 Hertz, and called it the Earth's hum. The sound continues to make itself heard to seismometers even when there is no seismic activity in... |
17 April 2008
08:08 GMT |
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It is global warming at a smaller scale. When El Nio begins, the deserts of the Peruvian coasts are turned to lakes, but great floods, violent cyclones, severe droughts and harsh winters occur worldwide, triggering hunger, epidemics, huge wildfires, and damages on crops, goods and environment. The most affected zones a... |
7 April 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Opera, together with Helio, has just announced the first deployment of Opera Mini on a mobile service provider in the United States. As of today, Helio members can surf the Web with Opera Mini on their Ocean smartphone with a specially-tailored version of the browser designed specifically for the handset. Available a... |
21 March 2008
06:54 GMT |
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In the local Nama language, "Namib" means vast. Vastness, besides its age (20 million years), and the amount of precipitations (50 ml per year) define the Namib Desert (southwestern Africa). It stretches on a land stripe about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) long and 100-160 km (60-100 mi) wide, representing the coastal plain of... |
18 March 2008
09:53 GMT |
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What is now a massive ball of ice around Saturn, the moon Tethys had an ocean at some point in its past, say researchers at the University of California present at a major science conference in Houston. Tethys is only one of the 60 or so natural satellites orbiting around Saturn, has a medium size and an average dens... |
15 March 2008
08:12 GMT |
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In the outcome of previous observations showing that Saturn's moon Enceladus ejects matter out of the geysers on its surface, the Cassini spacecraft executed, on Wednesday, a fly-by through the water ice plume hovering above it. During the swing, Cassini took numerous pictures of the surface of the moon and made... |
14 March 2008
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We are looking for new worlds on other planets, and we don't even know the worlds hosted by our own. A large array of giant mysterious creatures have been found by a recent two-month expedition in the freezing waters of Antarctica, including huge sea spiders and worms. The new specimens have been found inhabitin... |
21 February 2008
04:31 GMT |
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The longest migration previously known was that of the Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), which nests in the Arctic zone, in the tundra region, and winters in the Antarctica (when there is the Austral summer). Due to this 19,000 km (12,000 mi) journey, the bird sees two summers annually and more daylight than any other... |
30 January 2008
05:47 GMT |
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1. The shore seems to be the edge of the continent, but that's not true: the continents continue under the sea, on a strip edging each continent, and called continental shelf. How much of the continental shelf is covered by the sea depends on how much ice is stocked in the Polar Ice. 2. Around 10,000 years ago, ... |
28 January 2008
08:33 GMT |
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1. Ocean life can go from the surface down to... 2.5 km (1.5 mi) under the ocean floor. That's the place where living bacteria were found! 2. At a depth of 5 m (16 ft), 50 % of the solar light is already absorbed. At a depth of 25 m (83 ft), just 3 % of the sunlight penetrates. 3. The base of the food chain is t... |
23 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The theory of the plate tectonics and continental drift was accepted in the '60s, when the proofs came from the ocean. Earth's external layer is called lithosphere. It is a rigid blanket with a thickness of about 100 km (62 mi). It includes both the oceanic platform and the continental crust, but also the u... |
23 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1. You may believe that Mount Everest is the tallest in the world, with its 8,848 m (29,450 ft) in altitude. Yet, it was proven that the volcano Mauna Loa from Hawaii is taller by 2,300 m (7,660 ft), if we measure it from its base on the bottom of the ocean. 2. The mapping of the oceanic bottom revealed oceans are ex... |
18 January 2008
07:41 GMT |
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