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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
One Man's Quest to Heal the Oceans—And Maybe Save the World
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
5 Money-Saving Tips for Easy Boat Cleaning
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
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