Stories written by Tracey Smith
British Researchers have published a new study  indicating that an expanding pool of freshwater in the Arctic ocean may impact the Atlantic ocean currents which gives Europe a considerably milder climate than other countries at a similar latitude. Using satellites to measure sea surface height from 1995 to 2010, scientists from University College London and [...]
Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost land the size of Delaware—about 1880 square miles. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, if this trend continues, Louisiana will lose a wetland area larger than the size of Manhattan every year. These losses are a disaster not just for citizens who are seeing their land wash away, but [...]
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 [...]
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. Â 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. Â This is, of course, a [...]
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has completed a draft environmental impact statement regarding multiple oil and gas lease sales tentatively scheduled between 2012 and 2017 in the Western and Central Gulf of Mexico planning areas, offshore the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program: [...]
The Japanese whaling fleet set sail last week for the southern ocean around Antarctica to kill and process 1,000 whales for the purported purpose of “research”, something that they are allowed to do under the International Whaling Commission’s ban on whaling enacted in 1986 and to which Japan is a signatory. Â For several years the [...]
There has been much sensational reporting in the media regarding the vast amount of debris that was set adrift in the Pacific Ocean as a result of the devastating tsunami that struck the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan on March 11, 2011. Â If we are to believe the media reports there is anywhere from 5 to [...]
M3 Wave Energy Systems based in Corvallis, Oregon, conducted testing on its DMP device technology at Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University last week. Â As a result of this developmental milestone, the company has begun a new push for funding in order to be able to proceed to an in-ocean pilot. The [...]
State and federal members of the Maine Task Force of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will meet on December 8th (Thursday) to review an unsolicited lease application that they received from the Norwegian oil company, Statoil, for a wind energy project in the waters south of Boothbay, Maine. The project is considered the first-of-its-kind [...]
A family spending the day by the sea were treated to an octopus’ excursion on shore. Â They found the creature in the shallows and started filming, not knowing that he would venture up on land to their video-making delight. Â The octopus proceeded to regurgitate a crab and then returned to the ocean. Apparently this is [...]
Chevron Corp has taken full responsibility for a major oil spill in Brazil’s Campos Basin as a result of drilling a well in about 4,000 feet of water 230 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro. Â Oil has been leaking since November 8th. Chevron has indicated that they have plugged the well, but oil continues to [...]
The Scottish wave energy company, Aquamarine Power, has closed its office in Newport, Oregon at least for the time being. Â Aquamarine had established a one-person office in Oregon last year with the intent of deploying its wave energy buoy in the state’s coastal waters, but stated that a lack of certainty regarding the state’s marine [...]
The South Korean government has joined the frenzy regarding offshore wind development in the Asia-Pacific region. Â On the heels of China’s big investment announcement in offshore wind energy capacity, the South Koreans who currently import 97% of their energy needs, will invest $9 billion U.S. dollars to develop a 2.5 gigawatt offshore wind farm by [...]
The Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, The People’s Daily, is reporting that China plans to increase installed capacity of its offshore wind power sector to 30 gigawatts by 2020 with investments of almost $16 billion in US dollars. China is new to the offshore wind energy market with only 142,500 kilowatts of installed capacity at [...]
What could be worse than a storm that packs the punch of a category 3 hurricane coming ashore, the same storm when temperatures are low enough to make it a blizzard! Â Â The western coast of Alaska has been battered with an epic storm from the Bering Sea the likes of which has not been [...]
The Seawater Greenhouse provides a low-cost solution by enabling year-round crop production in some of the world’s hottest and driest regions. It does this using seawater and sunlight. The technology imitates natural processes, helping to restore the environment while significantly reducing the operating costs of greenhouse horticulture. Seawater is evaporated at the front of the [...]
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