Oceanography News

When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list.

The sharks, sea turtles and other miscellaneous underwater creatures that roam the Gulf of Mexico could care less about the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, or the island's one-party communist state.

The American icebreaker RV/IB Nathanial B. Palmer is shown off the South Shetland Islands.

British and U.S. scientists are warning deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60 percent of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

Fish and shellfish will soon get more protection from mercury and other toxins in the atmosphere that end up in US waters.

Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools - dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic Ocean in a study led by Dr Sinhue Torres-Valdes of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

London, November 3 : In a new exploration mission of the Casablanca Seamount, scientists have found an underwater volcano teeming with life.

New Delhi, Nov 3: The Supreme Court today granted four-week time to the Union Government to clarify its stand on the issue of an alternate route to save the Ram Setu from being destroyed.

Tanker collisions and coastal storage facilities susceptible to hurricane storm surges are more threatening than drilling rigs and pipelines, the experts said.

Professor Meric Srokosz of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, a co-investigator on the mission, has been involved in the project since its inception, having proposed the mission with colleagues in France and Spain back in 1998.

Convective systems cause of abrupt rains HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, OCT 29 Researchers have attributed the unusual monsoon pattern and decreased rainfall to the lesser low pressure system in the north west Pacific ocean.

Flight crewmembers from Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, Calif., and specialists from the International Bird Rescue Research Center load pallets full of birdcages onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft, Monday, Oct.

As Samoa recovers from a devastating tsunami and Indonesia recovers from its horrendous earthquake, Australia's vulnerability to tsunamis is now the subject of some concern.

In October, the hydraulic benthic interactive sampler HyBIS maintained by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton made ten dives over the Casablanca Seamount, a four-kilometre high seamount located some 300 miles west of Morocco.

A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

Scientists know what caused the ocean foam that has killed thousands of seabirds in Oregon and Washington, but they don't know exactly why it suddenly showed up in such deadly abundance off the Northwest coast.

THE Solent's once thriving oyster industry is on the verge of collapse, fishermen and scientists have warned.

Autosub6000 was working in regions of the Iberian Abyssal Plain in the North Atlantic deeper than 5600 metres and also around the steep and rugged terrain of the Casablanca Seamount, between Madeira and Morocco.

In May 2008, something bizarre washed ashore off the British Columbian coast-one right foot, still in its running shoe.

At the end of experiments larvae of the hard clam, bay scallop, and Eastern oyster that were raised in seawater with high carbon dioxide concentration were smaller and later to develop than larvae raised in seawater with carbon dioxide concentration matching current ocean levels Credit: Stephanie Talmage Relatively minor increases in ocean acidity ...