Ocean

El Nino weather: Worries grow over humanitarian impact

Posted in Science on 30th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

The strongest El Nino weather cycle on record is likely to increase the threat of hunger and disease for millions of people in 2016.

Xprize with $7M in prizes to map the ocean floor with robots

Posted in Featured, Hardware on 16th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

"Ninety-five percent of the deep sea remains a mystery to us; We have better maps of the surface of Mars than we do of our own seafloor."

Scientists reveal that the rotation of Earth's core holds a clue to understanding global sea level rise

Posted in Science on 12th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

Scientists are looking down to Earth's core to make accurate predictions of the consequence of climate change.

Volcanic event caused ice age during Jurassic Period, new research suggests

Posted in Science on 12th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

The team suggest that a volcanic event, preventing the ocean flow, rather than a change in CO2 in the atmosphere, led to an Ice age.

SAROS is a portable unit that turns seawater into drinking water

Posted in Featured, Hardware on 21st Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

A North Carolina startup has come up with a method of desalination powered by the sea itself.