The 3D maps may help researchers track and predict the ocean’s response to climate change. By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans, except in certain pockets where oxygen naturally plummets and waters become unlivable for most aerobic organisms. These desolate pools are “oxygen-deficient zones,” … [continued]
DeepGreen is a deep-sea mining company with a vision of a zero-carbon, circular economy. Its goal is to source metals with the least environmental and societal impact.
A new study explores the environmental, social, and economic costs of different sources of base metals used in the world’s transition away from fossil fuels. The while paper is entitled Where Should Metals for the Green Transition Come From?
One of the most remote islands in the world, Henderson Island in the South Pacific, is now littered with an estimated 37.7 million pieces of plastic debris, according to a new study from British researchers.
A new study has concluded that long-term warming of the Indian and Pacific oceans worsened the deadly floods that hit Australia in 2010/11. During the summer of 2010/11, a series of floods hit the northern Australian state of Queensland, affecting at least 90 towns, over 200,000 people, killing at least … [continued]
Somebody call Donald Trump — Chinese pollution has joined the long list of illegal immigrants making its way across the seas and into America. Into America’s atmosphere, at least. A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has shown how pollution making its way across the Pacific Ocean from China … [continued]
Tokyo Electric Power Company started building something new and very cold at the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plant complex on Monday. It’s basically a big underground cooler meant to freeze the soil into a rectangular wall around TEPCO’s four nonfunctioning but still highly radioactive reactors. The frozen ground of the … [continued]
