Pacific Trash Patch Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought
Between California and Hawaii, there's a teeming patch of garbage that's stretched over an area more than double the size of Texas. We already knew it was huge.
Category Archives: Oceanography
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Isn’t What You Think it Is
Marine researcher Charles Moore holds a sample of water with debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which he first discovered in 1997. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world's largest collection of floating trash-and the most famous.
Drill, baby, drill in the eastern Gulf? Don’t even think about it
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board members talk about a ruling to revisit the idea of drilling for oil in the Everglades. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board members talk about a ruling to revisit the idea of drilling for oil in the Everglades.
EPA cancels talk on climate change by agency scientists
The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the speaking appearance of three agency scientists who were scheduled to discuss climate change at a conference Monday in Rhode Island, according to the agency and several people involved. John Konkus, an EPA spokesman and a former Trump campaign operative in Florida, confirmed that agency scientists would not speak at the State of the Narragansett Bay and Watershed program in Providence, Rhode Island.
UNH and NOAA join worldwide effort to map ocean floors
UNH research engineer Val Schmidt explains how an autonomous surface vessel works at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping and Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
Surf’s Up
For the globalist left-elite, President Trump backing away from the Paris Climate Accord can only be compared to pulling the plug on the great atmosphere machine created by the mysterious Orovars on Edgar Rice Burrough's fictional planet Barsoom. We are all going to strangle, suffocate and die.
Navy Unmanned Certification Classes Begin at University of Southern Mississippi
Fifteen students began classes earlier this week at The University of Southern Mississippi, where they are expected to be the first class in the nation to earn a certification in Unmanned Maritime Systems . "This program gives us a chance to continually and rapidly train and certify our personnel to be the best in the world even before the race begins," stated Command, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command Deputy Commander and Technical Director Dr. Bill Burnett.
China Blatantly Stole An American Underwater Drone From a Us Ship In The South China Sea
Vessels roam the waters of the East China Sea during a naval exercise, October 19, 2012. The Chinese navy conducted a joint exercise in the East China Sea with the country's fishery administration and marine surveillance agency on Friday.
Cutter Healy to depart for 2nd mission to West Arctic
Petty Officer 2nd Class James A. Bowell directs Cutter Healy's man basket onto the ice off the Chukchi Sea, north of the Arctic Circle July 12. During Cutter Healy's first of three missions during their West Arctic Summer Deployment, a team of 46 researchers from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration studied the Chukchi Sea ecosystem. SEWARD, Alaska - Seattle-based Coast Guard Cutter Healy is set to depart Tuesday on a second Artic mission after mooring in Seward to disembark 46 researchers from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from its first mission.
Want To Know How Accurate Your Favorite News Site Is On Climate? This Tool Can Help.
Just how accurate is your go-to news outlet on climate and environmental coverage? That's a question that Climate Feedback, a group that uses scientists to review news articles similar to the way they'd review a research paper, wants to answer. Last week, Climate Feedback announced the Scientific Trust Tracker , a feature that will track news outlets' accuracy on climate change, one scientist-reviewed story at a time.