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When someone mentions waves, we are most likely to think of the beach and surfers riding breaks to shore, not the waves deep beneath the ocean’s surface. Now, new research has shed light on the important role underwater waves play in climate change.Con… Continue reading Underwater turbulence revealed as a key factor in climate change
In July last year, Saildrone launched one its sensor-packed unmanned aquatic drones on a voyage of discovery in the North Pacific, tasked with filling in ocean mapping blanks around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands as well as off the coast of California.Conti… Continue reading Saildrone completes epic mapping mission around Aleutian Islands
A historic agreement in conservation has seen 193 nations come together for the first time to agree on a High Seas Treaty, which aims to place 30% of international waters into protected areas by 2030. This treaty is necessary for the success of the lan… Continue reading Historic world agreement commits to protecting international waters
A new study has shown that foods that come from the ocean or freshwater, known as “blue foods,” have the potential to address several important global issues, including nutritional deficits, disease, and climate change.Continue ReadingCategory: Health … Continue reading “Blue foods” can tackle global malnutrition, disease and climate change
Green hydrogen can’t be viewed as environmentally friendly if it drinks huge amounts of fresh water, or results in the bulk output of toxic chlorine, according to RMIT researchers who say they’ve come up with a cheap technique that does neither.Continu… Continue reading “Exceptional” new catalyst cheaply splits hydrogen from seawater
If you’re designing robots for the exploration of oceans on other planets, you want something that’s tough, versatile and easy to store in a spacecraft. It turns out that soft-bodied robots inspired by a marine organism may be the perfect choice.Contin… Continue reading Sea-creature-inspired linked robots could explore alien oceans
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) can have negative consequences for both marine life and human health, so it can be helpful to have early warning of when they’re on the way. …read more Continue reading Detecting Algal Blooms with the Help of AI
It’s a cruel irony that over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, but it’s undrinkable. Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have now modeled the feasibility of a hypothetical system that can capture water vapor f… Continue reading Offshore structures could harvest city drinking water from ocean air
Imagine if you were tasked with sorting and separating thousands of tiny fossils, most of them less than a millimeter wide. It would quite a tedious, time-consuming task … which is why scientists have recently created a robot to do the job.Continue Rea… Continue reading Forabot robot searches through tiny shells from prehistoric times
We’ve known for decades that billions of dollars’ worth of battery-relevant metals like copper, manganese, cobalt and nickel are literally sitting around on the seafloor out in the deep ocean, in giant fields of “polymetallic nodules” that look just li… Continue reading Impossible Metals demonstrates its super-careful seabed mining robot