Updated information on the grounding of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia near the island of Giglio, Italy. Teams have been searching the ship for passengers and crew missing since the Costa Concordia struck rocks Friday evening and capsized. Rescuers exploded four holes in the hull of the ship earlier Tuesday to gain easier access [...]
The amount of air pollutants in the atmospheric plume generated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was similar to a large city according to a new NOAA-led study published today in a special issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) and NOAA’s Cooperative Institute [...]
Direct effects of climate warming on biodiversity pose a serious conservation challenge for marine life, according to new research published today in Science. Marine life may need to relocate faster than land species as well as speed up alterations in the timing of major life cycle events. This challenges previous thinking that marine life in [...]
France’s Protected Areas Agency and the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmostpheric Administration have signed a “sister sanctuary” agreement to support the protection of endangered humpback whales that migrate annually more than 3,000 miles between NOAA’s Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the Massachusetts coast and Agoa Marine Mammal Sanctuary in the Caribbean’s French Antilles. [...]
Governments will soon have a chance to help conserve populations of oceanic whitetip sharks, which have declined so much in the eastern Pacific that catch numbers have been reduced to almost zero. Tuna fisheries are primarily responsible for the drastic decrease in population of one of the most prolific and widespread shark species, the oceanic [...]
The Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone is predicted to be the largest ever recorded due to extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring, according to an annual forecast by a team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University and the University of Michigan. The forecast is based on Mississippi [...]
A decade after members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) approved an international plan to conserve sharks, a new analysis finds that it has yet to be fully implemented. With 30 percent of all shark species now threatened or near threatened with extinction, there is little evidence that the plan has contributed significantly to improved conservation and management of these animals.
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy (ASX: CWE) has provided an update on the latest activities in relation to its commercial scale CETO wave unit test program.
Blue Planet Scuba, a new scuba diving organization that opened in Dupont Circle in October, announced today the first program of “carbon neutral” scuba travel opportunities for DC, Maryland, and Virginia divers.
In the vast ocean where an essential nutrient—iron—is scarce, a marine bacterium that launches the ocean food web survives by using a remarkable biochemical trick: It recycles iron.
Ahhh, the Holidays! Tis the season for entertaining and getting together with friends and family. If you are planning on serving seafood as part of your holiday feasts, there are many things you can do to ensure that your choices are sustainable and do not reward retailers and commercial fisheries who threaten our oceans’ ecosystems. Why is this so important? In 2003, the Pew Oceans Commission warned that the world’s oceans are in a state of “silent collapse,” threatening our food supply, marine economies, recreation and the natural legacy we leave our children.
Former Backstreet Boy turned desparate reality TV personality, Nick Carter, ran his 45 foot luxury power boat N-Control aground in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in May of 2001. The grounding and subsequent salvage of the Sea Ray injured 3,762 square feet (349.49 square meters) of critical seagrass habitat, an area larger than a tennis court. On July 18, 2002, NOAA settled the case for $30, 573. Results of a five-year monitoring effort to repair seagrass damaged in the boat grounding incident has just been released by NOAA.
W2 Energy, Inc., a clean energy company (PINKSHEETS: WTWO), announced today that it has purchased 100% of Hydrokinetic Laboratory, LLC (www.hklabllc.com), developer of the HyPEG underwater power system.
W2 Energy, Inc. introduces its new subsidiary, W2 Hydrokinetics (W2H), continuing its clean energy diversity expansion.
For the first time, a science based blueprint for managing Australia’s oceans has been developed to safeguard marine life and protect economic and social interests as well.
As of midnight on the 31st October 2010, the world’s largest marine reserve, the Chagos archipelage, came into existence. The Government and people of Great Britain played a great part in getting the legislation passed to make this area a no-take zone, and its creation marks a significant step forward in international conservation.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has launched a video campaign on the world’s biggest stage to highlight the importance of the planet’s largest life-sustaining feature—the ocean.
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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