Category: Coastal News

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Panama Canal to Slash Booking Slots due to Drought Over Coming Months

11/4/2023 - By reuters.com. PANAMA CITY, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The Panama Canal, one of the world's main maritime trade routes, will further reduce daily ship crossings in the coming months due to a severe drought, the authorities managing the canal said late on Monday, increasing shipping costs. Booking slots will be cut… SEE MORE

The Texas State Capitol in Austin. Credit: Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images.

As Federal Money Flows to Carbon Capture and Storage, Texas Bets on an Undersea Bonanza

11/3/2023 - By insideclimatenews.org. Hungry for royalties, the state is awarding offshore leases to oil and gas companies that hope to bury heat-trapping carbon dioxide deep beneath the seafloor. But critics worry about leakage through rock layers, pipeline safety and the lackluster record of carbon capture facilities onshore. Over the last century,… SEE MORE

A groundbreaking study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reveals the shocking disappearance of billions of snow crabs in Alaska

Billions of Snow Crabs in Alaska Likely Vanished Due to Warm Ocean

11/2/2023 - By theguardian.com. The crabs starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs, according to the NOAA Warmer ocean temperatures have likely caused the sudden and shocking disappearance of billions of snow crabs in Alaska, which had previously baffled scientists and environmentalists, a new study has… SEE MORE

2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find

11/1/2023 - By nasa.gov. The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA. At 10 million square miles, or 26 million square kilometers, the hole ranked as the 12th largest single-day ozone hole since 1979. During the… SEE MORE

This NOAA GOES-16 satellite image shows Hurricane Otis shortly after it rapidly intensified to category 5 strength on October 24.

Scientists Find Two Ways that Hurricanes Rapidly Intensify

10/31/2023 - By DAVID HOSANSKY. Hurricanes that rapidly intensify for mysterious reasons pose a particularly frightening threat to those in harm’s way. Forecasters have struggled for many years to understand why a seemingly commonplace tropical depression or tropical storm sometimes blows up into a major hurricane, packing catastrophic winds and driving a… SEE MORE

The Altius-600 uncrewed aircraft system demonstration model appears with Hurricane Hunter NOAA WP-3D Orion, known as “Miss Piggy,” at NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, Florida, during an uncrewed aircraft system flight test on May 25, 2022. The Altius was recognized by the 2024 Guinness World Records book for the longest endurance flight inside a tropical cyclone by an uncrewed aircraft. (Image credit: NOAA/Aircraft Operations Center)

NOAA flies straight into the Guinness World Records book

10/30/2023 - By noaa.gov. Record-setting robots recognized for endurance, capturing top wind speed It’s one — no, two! — for the record books. The 2024 edition of the Guinness World Records book recognizes NOAAoffsite link and industry partners with two world records: 1) wind speed recorded by an uncrewed surface vehicle; and 2)… SEE MORE

Retrieving the passive acoustic mooring to collect the data recordings. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/ Jonny Reid

Listening to the Sounds of the Gulf of Mexico

10/29/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. The acoustics team recovers and deploys a variety of moored underwater recording instruments to provide information on ocean noise, including sounds from human activities, fish, and marine mammals. Long-term sound recordings in the Gulf of Mexico and oceans around the world have been at the forefront of oceanographic… SEE MORE

Rare Good News for Florida’s Bleaching Reefs: Rescued Coral from Miami Spawn

10/28/2023 - By wlrn.org. Scientists racing to save coral from bleaching reefs across the Florida Keys got some rare good news: a handful of coral rescued off Miami spawned in the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel hatchery lab this week. While it’s too soon to know whether they’ll become viable, making babies could definitely be… SEE MORE

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Longtime railwayman George Butler explains to new railway owner Jeremy Clark what his railway inspection reveals. Larry Chowning photo.

Historic marine railways fading away

Coastal News

10/27/2023 - By nationalfisherman.com. Small neighborhood railways, once the lifeblood for maintaining commercial fishing boats up and down the Mid-Atlantic coast, are being replaced with motorized boat lifts. A clear indication of this is in the advice given by longtime railwayman George Butler of Reedville, Va. to new railway owner Jeremy Clark… SEE MORE

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The fascinating thing with squid is that they rapidly change color

Fishing through the cracks: The unregulated nature of global squid fisheries

10/26/2023 - By science.org. Seafood represents one of the most widely traded food products globally (1, 2), yet the movements and activities of global industrial fishing fleets remain notoriously opaque. These fleets are characterized by limited oversight of their activities (3), a shifting landscape of national and international policy and regulation (4, 5), and… SEE MORE