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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
2023-24 U.S. winter outlook: wetter South, warmer North
By climate.gov. This year, El Niño is in place heading into winter for the first time in four years, driving the outlook for warmer-than-average temperatures for the northern tier of the continental United States, according to NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook released today by the Climate Prediction Center—a division of the National Weather Service.… SEE MORE
Swarm of Tiny Swimming Robots Could Look for Life on Distant Worlds
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
Sponging Up Plastic Pollution
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