The Southeastern Regional Sea Turtle Network (SERSTN) has assembled an impressive group of sea turtle technology vendors and non-profit exhibitors for the group’s February 1-4, 2012 inaugural meeting. Vendors will display all the latest technology and gear that every sea turtle scientist has on their wish list. Both sea turtles and sea turtle scientists depend [...]
As part of President Obama’s National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes, the National Ocean Council has released a draft National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan to address some of the most pressing challenges facing the U.S. oceans, coasts, and the Great Lakes. The draft Implementation Plan describes more [...]
A new green investment fund has acquired a significant shareholding in wave energy company Aquamarine Power. The deal sees the Environmental Energies Fund (EEF) acquire a portion of the shareholding previously held by SSE Ventures, the venture capital arm of SSE plc. The £95 million ($146 million U.S.) secondaries fund has been formed to acquire [...]
A JAPANESE whaling ship has defied high-level Australian complaints to stay in the waters of World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island. The Australian embassy told the Japanese government on Tuesday that whaling vessels were not welcome in the country’s waters. The Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru III which undertakes whaling in the name of “research” was still [...]
Three large commercial vessels who were assessed civil penalties this fall for violating seasonal speed limits designed to protect one of the most endangered whale species in the world have paid their penalties in full. Cases against six other vessels for the same offense are still open. The ship strike reduction rule, enacted in December [...]
By combining detailed chemical measurements in the deep ocean, in the oil slick, and in the air, NOAA scientists and academic colleagues have independently estimated how fast gases and oil were leaking during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The new chemistry-based spill rate estimate, an average of 11,130 tons [...]
What a terrible start to the new year for the world’oceans – another shipwreck leaking fuel and toxic cargo, oil and phosphate, into the water. The Panamanian-badged MV Tycoon broke from its mooring on Sunday at Christmas Island, an Australian External Territory located in the Indian Ocean on the rim of South East Asia. Rough [...]
Yesterday marked the beginning of a three day symposium of coral reef conservation in the Red Sea led by the Living Ocean Foundation taking place at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The symposium marks the conclusion of four years of Red Sea research by the Khaled bin [...]
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond will travel to the Middle East next week to sign a ground-breaking deal on renewables. Mr Salmond will sign Scotland up to a landmark agreement to develop tangible green energy products with the world’s leading innovator, Masdar, based in Abu Dhabi. The deal to be signed next Tuesday (January 17) [...]
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it is taking the next steps in the review for a potential Mid-Atlantic Wind Energy Transmission Line. Atlantic Grid Holdings LLC has requested a right-of-way grant to develop the Atlantic Wind Connection, a proposed high-voltage direct current transmission line that would collect power generated by offshore [...]
NOAA is seeking public comment on a draft environmental impact statement describing how offshore oil and gas activities in the U.S. Beaufort and Chukchi seas could affect marine mammals and the Alaska Native communities that depend on them for subsistence. The document also examines measures to lessen potential effects. The draft EIS, released today, looks [...]
PRESS RELEASE: A hemispherewide phenomenon – and not just regional forces – has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea. Frigid freshwater flowing into the Arctic Ocean from three of Russia’s mighty rivers was diverted hundreds of miles to a completely different part of the ocean in response to a [...]
Eco Wave Power has completed the construction and testing phase of its first sea wave energy generation models the “Wave Clapper”, and the “Power Wing”. The testing took place in the wave pool of the Hydro-Mechanical National Institute of Kiev. The “wave pool”, 2.5 meters depth, and 18 meters length, provided Eco Wave Power with [...]
Vattenfall has reached a consortium agreement with three partners in France to be well prepared for the coming hydro concessions later this year. On the occasion of the renewal of French hydroelectric concessions, the four partners, ArcelorMittal, Rhodia, SNCF and Vattenfall join forces under the name Force Hydro to bid for the concessions tender to [...]
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Scientists are seeking answers as to why thousands of dead herring have appeared on the beaches of Kvaenes in the northerly district of of Nordesia, Norway. This couldn’t have come at a better time for the doomsdayers who believe that the Mayans foretold the coming of the apocalypse in 2012. This is, of course, a [...]
NOAA has awarded the first year of an anticipated five-year, $4 million grant to scientists researching the causes of Ciguatera fish poisoning, the most common form of algal toxin-induced seafood poisoning in the world, focusing on the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Ciguatera affects tens of thousands of people annually, but the occurrence has been [...]
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