The Ocean Plastic Pollution Battle Has Just Begun
After decades of foot-dragging by petrochemical stakeholders, solutions to the ocean plastic pollution crisis are beginning to emerge.
After decades of foot-dragging by petrochemical stakeholders, solutions to the ocean plastic pollution crisis are beginning to emerge.
A wave energy device that resembles a deconstructed sea serpent has caught the eye of both public and private renewable energy investors.
Understanding the Changes Could Help Predict Future Trends in Extreme Events
A pyramid of pear trees in the Wadden Sea is proving to be a successful way to make an artificial reef that can support marine life.
Areas have potential to support 4–8 gigawatts of clean renewable energy.
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 … [continued]
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.
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. … [continued]
Researchers at UCLA have devised a novel way of removing carbon dioxide from the world’s oceans simply and affordably.
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 … [continued]