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This illustration shows the NASA cryobot concept called Probe using Radioisotopes for Icy Moons Exploration (PRIME) deploying tiny wedge-shaped robots into the ocean miles below a lander on the frozen surface of an ocean world. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Full Image Details

Swarm of Tiny Swimming Robots Could Look for Life on Distant Worlds

Coastal News

10/22/2023 - By jpl.nasa.gov. A concept in development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory would allow potential planetary missions to chase interesting clues in subsurface oceans. In the Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers (SWIM) concept, illustrated here, dozens of small robots would descend through the icy shell of a distant moon via a cryobot… SEE MORE

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Plastic Bottles, Not Bags, Cause the Worst Pollution to Europe's Waterways

Sponging Up Plastic Pollution

10/21/2023 - By Chris Baraniuk. Sponges. Is there anything they can’t do? For millennia, humans have used dried natural sponges to clean up, to paint, and as vessels to consume fluids like water or honey; we’ve even used them as contraceptive devices. Whether synthetic or natural, sponges are great at ensnaring tiny particles in… SEE MORE

One Man’s Quest to Heal the Oceans—And Maybe Save the World

10/20/2023 - By Aryn Baker. Enric Sala—marine ecologist, conservationist, and ocean advocate—is standing under a life-size replica of a Northern Atlantic Right Whale at the natural history museum in Washington, D.C., and the air outside is smudged with wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada. It’s not surprising that Sala wants to talk about the… SEE MORE

Boat Cleaning Brush. Image provided by Kashmer Interactive.

5 Money-Saving Tips for Easy Boat Cleaning

10/20/2023 - By Captains Preferred Products. Your boat may be expensive, but your cleaning routine doesn’t have to be. Marine vessels are known to be income-draining (it’s a popular joke among owners that “boat” stands for “Bankruptcy on a Trailer”) but taking the right steps to preserve yours will increase both its… SEE MORE

Benedict Arnold’s Lake Champlain Gunboat Is the Last Shipwreck of Its Kind

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10/19/2023 - By atlasobscura.com. Preserved in the lake’s chilly waters for more than 200 years, the Spitfire now faces a new threat. WHEN THE WOODEN GUNBOAT SPITFIRE sailed into battle as part of a flotilla engaging British naval forces on Lake Champlain in 1776, she carried an unlikely crew: ragtag American soldiers with little… SEE MORE

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Deadly Waterborne Bacteria Are Surging Because of Climate Change

10/18/2023 - By time.com. Climate experts have long warned about the myriad ways that warming temperatures can negatively affect human health. Now that global temperatures are predicted to increase by 1.5°C by the 2030s, that risk is becoming increasingly real. One long-held prediction that appears to be coming true—according to the results of… SEE MORE

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How a Little Mussel could Help Save a Merrimack River Salt Marsh

10/17/2023 - By wbur.org. Annalee Tweitmann stood ankle deep in mud, hands wet with mud, peering at a steep riverbank of mud. Mud comes with the job, she said, and she's fine with that. Because mud is where the mussels are. Tweitmann, a coastal restoration ecologist with Mass Audubon, had come to a… SEE MORE

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Peek-a-boo! A heron pops up to say hello in Narragansett Bay Reserve in Rhode Island.

Now You See Them: Wetland Wildlife on the Move

10/16/2023 - By coast.noaa.gov. The Takeaway: Scientists across the National Estuarine Research Reserve System have conducted the first-ever North American inventory of coastal wetland wildlife using 140 cameras in 29 estuaries. A fox goes hunting in the Chesapeake Bay Reserve in Maryland. A deer stops and poses in Grand Bay Reserve in… SEE MORE

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Victim in Rockland schooner accident identified

Mast Breaks on Rockland, ME Schooner ‘Grace Bailey’ While under Sail, one Dead

10/15/2023 - By penbaypilot.com. The mast on the Grace Bailey schooner broke while just beyond Rockland Harbor after 10 a.m., today, Oct. 9, resulting in one death of a female and several injured. The woman who was killed has been identified as Emily Mecklenburg, a physician at Pen Bay Medical Center, in Rockport. The cause of… SEE MORE

Right Whale Speed limits: NOAA imposed $1.1 million Fines for Busting 10 knots Since 2021

10/14/2023 - 14By nationalfisherman.com. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is stepping up enforcement of vessel speed limits when endangered North Atlantic right whales are on the move. The agency has used satellite technology and even highway patrol-style speed radar to nab violators. In 2021-2022 NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement reported bringing 19… SEE MORE

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