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Panama Canal to Slash Booking Slots due to Drought Over Coming Months
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
As Federal Money Flows to Carbon Capture and Storage, Texas Bets on an Undersea Bonanza
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
Billions of Snow Crabs in Alaska Likely Vanished Due to Warm Ocean
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
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
Scientists Find Two Ways that Hurricanes Rapidly Intensify
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
NOAA flies straight into the Guinness World Records book
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
Listening to the Sounds of the Gulf of Mexico
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
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
Historic marine railways fading away
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
Fishing through the cracks: The unregulated nature of global squid fisheries
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
FEMA Offers Every State $2 Million to Adopt Safer Building Codes
By scientificamerican.com. First-of-its-kind FEMA funding aims to update archaic building codes that leave millions of people exposed to climate-fueled hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather CLIMATEWIRE | Two houses are side by side. One is a crumpled mess of splintered wood and ripped insulation. The other stands perfectly intact. This image… SEE MORE
A warming Gulf Stream is edging ever closer to shore
By pressherald.com. The shifting current may cause breakaway areas of warm water that raise temperatures in the Gulf of Maine for months at a time, a study finds. Over the last 20 years, the Gulf Stream has warmed faster than the global oceans and shifted closer to the shore, increasing… SEE MORE