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Turning the "Freight Trains of the Oceans" into Hybrids
2008-09-24 18:31:00 From Discover | Environment: Container ships transport nearly everything you use every day, from iPods to mugs to diapers. The ships are also some of the world's biggest gas guzzlers. But now innovators are coming up with amazing ideas for how to keep these freight trains of the se
Mountains and Valleys Below the Oceans
2008-06-27 08:24:00 Have anyone had a look at ArcGlobe from ESRI yet? It gives a representation of what it look like below the water line. The "mountain" range in the Atlantic seems to be small in comparison to the Indian and Pacific. New Zealand surroundings have high and deep va
State of the oceans revealed
2008-02-15 22:22:00 clipped from www.guardian.co.ukFishing, climate change and pollution have left an indelible mark on virtually all of the world's oceans, according to a huge study that has mapped the total human impact on the seas for the first time. Scientists found that almost no areas have been left pristine and more than 40% of the world's oceans have been heavily affected."This project allows us to finally start to see the big picture of how humans are affecting the oceans," said Ben Halpern, assistant research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who led the research. "Our results show that when these and other individual impacts are summed up the big picture looks much worse than I imagine most people expected. It was certainly a surprise to me."
By: Revolving Doors
A Sweet Excuse For Sweets: Eat A Cookie, Save the Oceans
2007-12-12 17:29:00 Does anyone really need another excuse to slather on the icing or “double-dunk” our desserts? How about helping to save our planet’s oceans? Oceana; a California, Oregon and Alaska-based non-profit; and Warren Brown; host of Food Network’s Sugar Rush and owner of Washington D.C.’s CakeLove Bakery; have teamed up this holiday season to give bakers and eco-concerned ...
Are the oceans now almost fully saturated with CO2?
2007-10-21 10:08:00 The amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the world’s oceans has reduced, scientists have said. University of East Anglia researchers gauged CO2 absorption through more than 90,000 measurements from merchant ships equipped with automatic instruments. Results of their 10-year study in the North Atlantic show CO2 uptake halved between the mid-90s and 2000 to 2005. Scientists believe ...
The Oceans of Venus
2007-10-12 01:09:00 Newly released computer models from the Denver museum of Natural History are presenting a very interesting fact: early Venus may have retained its oceans for more than a billion years.During Venus' early life, it was constantly bombarded with asteroids. These impacts have significantly reduced the chance of life in previous models. However, the new model adds at least 400 million years to the existence of Venus' oceans. These additional years are very significant because they allow more time for more complex life to exist.Interest in Venus has possibly been renewed with the sad news that Mars may have been less hospitable to life and even colder in its past than previously thought.Either way, surface samples from the greenhouse planet would certainly shed some light on its possibly organic past. We may be looking for microbes on Mars, but I'd certainly like to see some fossils from Venus.
By: Deep Sky Blog
Ted Danson + Variety = Save the Oceans
2007-07-21 10:00:00 Ted Danson has teamed up with Variety. They are featuring his organization, Oceana, which is dedicated to protecting our oceans and their habitats. This initiative is a part of Variety’s new Green Hollywood program. Check out this video, where Ted Danson plays ocean expert! He knows his stuff! via ecorazzi Celebrity, climate change, conservation, habitats, initiative, lifestyle, Ocean, ...
The earth inversed. All land becoming water and the oceans becoming land.
2007-07-19 23:30:00 Vlad Studio has created this poster which conceptualises what an inverted world would look like. The Atlantic Ocean becomes the “North Atlantic States”, the UK becomes the English Lakes while the “Great Lakes” of the US becomes the “Great Islands”. Its a great piece of LOTR genre art and a really interesting study. You can download ...
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Across the Pacific Ocean, plastics, plastics, everywhere
2007-06-24 15:27:00 “It was on our way home, after finishing the Los Angeles to Hawaii sail race known as the Transpac, that my crew and I first caught sight of the trash, floating in one of the most remote regions of all the oceans. We decided to take a short cut through the gyre, which few seafarers ever ...
Europe?s seas already ?seriously damaged?
2007-06-09 12:26:00 Europe’s seas are in serious decline from coastal development, overuse of fertilisers, chemical pollution and over-fishing, a new study warns. Over the next 20 to 30 years, the Mediterranean, Baltic and Black Sea, and the North Atlantic will deteriorate further unless action is taken, say the researchers, who were funded by the European Union. The three-year European ...
Brad & Angie at the Oceans 13 Los Angeles Premiere at the Grauman's Chinese
2007-06-06 14:24:00 Are they not the hottest couple in Hollywood? They look like the perfect couple, look at the body chemistry and how happy they look together!
Our oceans are turning into plastic? are we?
2007-06-06 10:19:00 A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility… and worse. Captain Charles Moore and the crew of Alguita, his 50-foot aluminium-hulled catamaran, sliced through the sea. He’d seen a lot of things ...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the Oceans 13 premiere at Cannes
2007-05-24 10:46:00 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie walked the red carpet together at the premiere of his new film Oceans 13 at the Cannes film festival today. Angelina was striking in a canary yellow dress that reminded me of the flowing gray gown she wore to the Golden Globes. It may have been by the same designer ...
Volume of Water in the Oceans & Seas
2007-05-16 14:32:00 Has anybody tried to calculate the volume of water in our oceans and seas? Just thinking about how to find a solution to the problem of rising sea le...
Geology, Geography, & Archaeology :: Origin of the Oceans
2007-03-06 21:40:03 Author: Eric Subject: Origin of the Oceans Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:05 pm (GMT -5) Origin of the Oceans by Frank Sherwin, M.A. Secular scientists are unclear as to the origin of anything: the universe, our solar system, the earth, the oceans, or the creatures that inhabit the oceans. Where did the oceans come from according to evolutionists? Baby boomers may remember this "just-so story" described in the popular Time-Life book series (that includes a veiled swipe at the Biblical explanation while bowing to naturalism). Finally the day came when the falling raindrops did not hiss away in steam, but stayed to start filling the crevices and corners of the naked planet. Then it rained, and the accumulation of the seas began. The accumulation did not take place (in the opinion of modern geologists) through "the greatest deluge of all time" that has so often been described. So far as anyone can tell, it may merely have rained as it rains today. Nature ... |
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