Suit up, landlubbers! This weekend, David Gallow takes us beneath the waves and shares some marvelous footage of bioluminescent creatures in the deep sea and shallow waters.
When most of us think of light-emitting creatures, we probably think of the firefly, but bioluminescence is much more common in the marine environment.
It has been snowing on Mars and it took a Canadian scientist using Canadian technology to recognize it. Seems that Canadians know snow when they see it.
“Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars,” said Jim Whiteway of Toronto’s York University and the lead weather scientist for NASA’s Mars Lander project.
“It’s a major breakthrough,” said [...]
Compared to previous years, hurricane activity in the Atlantic has been relatively quiet, although the Gulf of Mexico has had a busy hurricane and tropical storm season so far. We are just now entering the most active part of the hurricane season, a period which officially ends on November 30.
Global warming, which has accounted for [...]
This enhanced satellite image shows the current extent of the Arctic Ice Cap (August 25, 2008). It is now 220,000 square miles larger than 2007’s lowest extent which was the smallest the ice cap had ever reached. (Image: National Snow and Ice Data Center)
They are called “dead zones”, increasingly large areas of coastal ocean that can no longer support life.
Fishermen off the shores of Oregon report that more amounts of dead rockfish, crabs and other bottom fish have been appearing in their nets and along the coast line.
Not only is the Arctic ice cap shrinking, it is shrinking at a pace that places its disappearance two to three decades ahead of the gloomiest previous forecasts.
It is now generally predicted that the Arctic ice cap will totally disappear in 20 - 25 years, leaving the Arctic Ocean totally free of summer ice as [...]
Science is an art of exploration. The dedication of the explorers is sometimes directed by other discoveries, a chance encounter or simply just the pure serendipity of a crazy idea.
Consider Peter Flynn when he began thinking about the Gulf Stream which carries warm water into the North Atlantic and returns cold water into the southern reaches [...]
In recent years the beaches of Florida haven’t been as they once were. Increasingly the beaches have been forced to close periodically as a result of unsafe levels of bacteria in the water. Red tides, huge patches of potentially toxic algae, have appeared threatening both swimmers and marine life.
The main culprit for the deterioration of [...]
