oceans, Tag

Hurricane Florence is on a collision course with the southeastern United States. The immense and powerful storm will create high winds and surges along coastal towns and cities, but scientists are more concerned about how...

Indonesia wastes upward of 10 billion plastic bags every year, making it the second highest polluter of plastic in the entire world. To address the growing plastic pollution problem, thousands of volunteers gathered around...

Guest Post By Javier A no-assumptions look at the global warming evidence helps clarify the possibilities. The planet’s surface has been warming since the depths of the Little Ice Age, and particularly since ~ 1850...

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have recorded the warmest sea surface temperature in more than a hundred years near a pier in San Diego...

As many WUWT readers know, there’s this push to “save the planet” by banning plastic straws. Like most liberal Earth saving fantasies, it’s rooted in shonky science, or in this case, no science at...

Only 13 percent of the planet's oceans are unaffected by human activities, such as fishing and pollution, according to a recent study from the Wildlife Conservation Society...

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Palko Karasz, writing in the New York Times, with a degree of insensitivity bordering on blatant intentional libel, reports: “Come for the beaches, say tourism ads for the Dominican Republic...

Just in time for the 30th Anniversary of Discovery Channel's popular Shark Week, a new map shows the interaction of 45 sharks with commercial fishing vessels...

We’ll need to mitigate and adapt to global warming to avoid massive costs from sea level rise

From the GWPF and the “Great Pacific Recycling Patch” department. Save The Oceans – Stop Recycling Plastic – video follows London 28 June: An explosive report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation...

Thanks to a comprehensive conservation effort, the exceptionally diverse Belize Barrier Reef has recovered so much that it has been removed from the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger sites...

by Judith Curry A discussion thread to ponder the uncertainties in glacial isostatic adjustment and the implications for past and future sea level rise...

Nation is a leader in capturing tidal and wave energy, but companies are starting to leave due to lack of government support

Scientists at the California Academy of Sciences have created a new device that can capture and transport deep-sea creatures to the ocean's surface without harming them, allowing scientists to better study the deep sea...

Point Nemo is so remote that those on the International Space Station, hundreds of miles above Earth, are usually the closest humans to this isolated place...