Eighteen Greenpeace activists have scaled a controversial Arctic oil rig 180km off the Greenland coast. They braved freezing seas to climb the huge legs of the rig then formed an orderly delegation to make its way to the drill manager’s cabin to demand a copy of the rig’s Oil Spill Response Plan.
The proposed listings cite threats posed by diminishing sea ice, and additionally, for ringed seals, reduced snow cover. NOAA climate models were used to predict future sea ice conditions.
Scientists analyzing measurements taken in the deep ocean around the globe over the past two decades find a warming trend that contributes to sea level rise, especially around Antarctica.
For eight weeks beginning in November 2009, off the coast of New Zealand, an international team of 34 scientists and 92 support staff and crew on board the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution (JR) were at work investigating sea-level change in a region called the Canterbury Basin. It proved to be a record-breaking trip for [...]
Scientists funded by NOAA and the National Science Foundation recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered. The eruption of the West Mata volcano, discovered in May, occurred nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. The spectacular video was taken by an unmanned submersible [...]
The world’s deepest hot tap operations on a pressurised pipeline have been performed on the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea during early August. “Being able to connect a spur to a producing pipeline yields significant cost savings,” says Bjørn Kåre Viken, vice president for marine technology and operations in StatoilHydro.
For almost ten years now, a global network of researchers from 80 nations have been engaged in the Census of Marine Life Project (CoML)
Earlier this year, a new version of Google Earth was released with many new features. One of these features is a detailed bathymetric map of the ocean floor, which allows you to drop below the surface of the water and and explore the nooks and crannies of the sea floor in 3D. This is [...]
StatoilHydro has announced that it intends to build what will be the world’s first full scale floating wind turbine, Hywind, and test it over a two-year period. The company is investing approximately 400 million NOK. The HyWind-prototype will be situated 10 km off the west coast of Norway, offshore Karmøy.The rotor blades on the floating wind [...]
SDE’s patented method of producing electrical energy from the power of a wave consists of using sea wave motion to generate hydraulic pressure, which is then transformed into electricity. The system takes advantage of the wave’s speed, height, depth, rise and fall, and the flow beneath the approaching wave, thus producing energy. A full-scale model [...]
Ecotricity Enters Wave Energy Industry
Alstom and SSE Renewables Create Joint Venture to Co-Develop World’s Largest Wave Farm off the Coast of Scotland
Pelamis Wave Power Up for Sale
Major New Green Energy Fund Acquires Stake in Aquamarine Power
Eco Wave Power Company is Taking the Fast Track to Success
UK Government Steps in to Assure Future of Cornwall Wave Hub Site
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