New research has shown for the first time, that larval fish across a range of fish species from different ocean habitats are surrounded by and ingesting plastics in their preferred nursery habitat. Many of the world’s marine fish spend their first days or weeks feeding and developing at the ocean surface, but little is known […]
Wreck fish video: A NOAA Remotely Operated Vehicle came across a dead swordfish being eaten by two species of deep sea shark, one of which is only recently know to science. This is upstaged by a large wreck fish which uses the ROV to ambush and eat one of the sharks. Remarkable footage from the […]
Sea level Rise – 4 articles British Antarctic Survey – Sea level rise Science briefing: https://www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sea-level-rise_May19.pdf Sea level rise: NOAA science report cards covering the American coastline Sea level rise & Adaptation – Cities can learn lessons from Rotterdam on how it is addressing sea-level rise. Seawalls to protect US against rising oceans could cost […]
This newsletter – sign up here provides an important oversight to global changes on climate change. Five of the articles carried in the latest edition include: 2018 was the 4th hottest year on record for the globe Ice shelves buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes 2018’s billion-dollar disasters in context Warm temperatures and significant […]
High tide flooding NOAA: ‘June 6, 2018 The increase in annual high tide flood days for South Atlantic states (2000-2018) As relative sea level increases, it no longer takes a strong storm or a hurricane to cause coastal high tide flooding. High tide flooding causes frequent road closures, overwhelmed storm drains, and compromised infrastructure. People living […]
We must make the most of NOAA and other American institutions providing this kind of information Three years of record breaking temperatures How unusual is 2016’s record-temperature three-peat, and will the hot streak continue in 2017? Looking back on Earth’s global temperature over the past three years…2014: record warm—wow! 2015: record warm—wow!! 2016: record warm—holy […]
NOAA has shown that August was significantly warmer than the average for last century, and marked 16 months of record warmth for the globe, the longest such streak in 137 years. Climate change is happening now. Globally, 14 of the 15 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000. The impacts of climate change are […]
Tip: Take your pick of the 3 cameras … their inputs and activity levels vary but the marine life is astonishing. You get a real sense from the discussions about the images about just what we know and don’t know about the species they come across. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream.html From April 20 to July 10, 2016, NOAA […]