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) [...]
You won’t find Spirobranchus giganteus, also known as the Christmas tree worm, eating your fir tree this year. The common name for these worms is derived from their appearance, not their habitat or diet. Each worm has two brightly colored crowns that protrude from its tube-like body. These Christmas tree-like crowns are composed of radioles, [...]
Over the past decade, the greater Gulf of Mexico region has been battered not only by hurricanes and oil spills, but by numerous natural and human-caused events such as tornadoes, droughts, harmful algal blooms, dead zones, and wildfire. The impacts from these events have lasting effects on vital economic drivers such as fishing, boating and [...]
Fifteen days after a tanker ran aground on a barrier reef in New Zealand spilling 35 tons of oil and fuel into the ocean, the island nation is still struggling to deal with the impact. Here is the latest update: More than 1,000 sea birds have died as a result of the oil spill. 1260 [...]
The ocean, which already gives us so much, is providing an absolutely awe- inspiring light show at night off the the coast of San Diego, California. Here is a great video and link to a beautiful photo gallery of the natural phenomenom. For those who would like to know the science behind the event, see [...]
Oil company Royal Dutch Shell is facing heavy criticism as a result of their handling of the biggest oil spill in British waters in a decade. Thirteen hundred barrels of oil have leaked so far from a pipeline connecting a well to the Gannet Alpha platform, situated about 122 miles east of the renewable energy hub [...]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admiistration’s (NOAA) Teacher at Sea (TAS) program’s 2011 Field Season is underway. The TAS program is to give teachers a clearer insight into our ocean planet, a greater understanding of maritime work and studies, and to increase their level of environmental literacy by fostering an interdisciplinary research experience. The program [...]
AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS) has recently surpassed the construction of its 200th TRIAXYS™ Directional Wave Buoy. TRIAXYS™ Directional Wave buoys are currently deployed worldwide gathering wave data for renewable energy potential, research and impact studies, marine operations and general marine safety. TRIAXYS™ was created by AXYS in conjunction with the National Research Council (NRC) of [...]
As the demand for energy increases worldwide, the search for renewable and viable sources of power intensifies. Two Ryerson University researchers have taken that search underwater, and using Iran as a test case, have found that oceans and lakes could make an enormous contribution to global energy production. “Bodies of water are a huge, untapped [...]
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) Research Board announced today that it has awarded 17 grants totaling $1.5 million to support the time-sensitive acquisition of critical samples and observations associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico. The funding will support work from July 1 to September 30, 2011 and [...]
Lee Crockett, director, Federal Fisheries Policy for the Pew Environment Group, released the following statement in response to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) announcement regarding the listing of Atlantic bluefin tuna under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
The Federal Court of Canada has ordered the Canadian Federal Fisheries Department to pay Ecojustice (formerly the Sierra Legal Defense Fund) $80,000 Cdn in court costs in a case in which the Canadian Government was found to be negligent in protecting critical habitat of resident killer whales. This habitat protection by the federal government is [...]
Researchers in Hawaii have been conducting simulations of ocean currents that which have led them to believe that islands of debris containing houses, chemicals, trees, tires, etc.. will travel across the Pacific and hit the U.S. Coast.
The waters of Whiting Harbor near Sitka, Alaska, are icy this late winter morning, but “ROVer” doesn’t mind, it doesn’t even shiver. The remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, from NOAA’s Auke Bay Laboratories is on a mission: Find “rock vomit.” Lesser known as Didemnum vexillum, rock vomit is an invasive sea squirt discovered in Alaska [...]
Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely impacts of climate change, even though billions of urban dwellers are vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise and other changes associated with warming temperatures.
New Jersey Governor Christie’ has moved to kill a proposed liquefied natural gas port at sea 17 miles off the state’s coast. Christie invoked the authority of coastal governors to veto such offshore development, a provision of the federal Deepwater Port Act that specifies that licenses granted by the federal Maritime Administration need the endorsement of [...]
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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