Oceanography News

Responding to the impact that a growing population and changing land use have had on the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays over the past 60 years is the focus of a research project led by Penn State and supported by a $1.4 million grant from NASA.

The Antarctica ice controversy continues among researchers and scientists. Satellite data suggests that Antarctica ice is actually expanding .

At the July 23, 2014, hearing of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation on "Implementing U.S. Policy in the Arctic" the committee chairman, Rep. Duncan Hunter , opened the proceedings by holding up a graphic of the icebreaker fleets of the world - which depicts nearly 40 Russian icebreakers - and then commented on the ... (more)

The effects of climate change are "threat multipliers for the man problems faced by the poor around the globe," Dorothy Boorse writes.

THE executive director of the National Oceanography Centre, Professor Ed Hill, has been awarded an honorary fellowship by Bangor University for services to marine science.

Friends of Penobscot Bay, an activist group, is facing obstacles as it continues to call for an official investigation into the erosion of legacy wastes from the property of GAC Chemical Corporation in Searsport.

We're reported previously about one of the leading explanations for the current lull in climate change, namely, that the heat is going into the oceans-particularly deep in the ocean, where, convenviently for the climatistas, we have very little data-instead of the atmosphere.

A businessman is suing the University of California San Diego, saying the university is improperly refusing to release public documents related to its machine shops - which he believes undercut private shops.

Passengers on a whale-watching boat leaving the charming harbour of St. Andrews, N.B, were shocked and thrilled to encounter a great white shark that got so close to them, that they were able to take vivid photos and videos of it.

Robert Ballard talks Tuesday about a new exhibit featuring his discoveries of ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and Black seas, now open at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London.

But don't panic, this isn't Game of Thrones and the type being found is unlikely to pose a problem to those wanting to paddle in the sea.

An octopus Lego was found on the beach in Cornwall, England after a container filled with Legos fell off of a ship in 1997.

Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Tuesday met Norway's Ambassador to India Eivind S. Homme and discussed collaboration in various education related issues between the two nations.

New research suggests that Antarctic sea ice may not be expanding as fast as previously thought.

As Arctic sea ice vanishes at an alarming rate, scientists have reported a surprising finding in Antarctica.

Lego pieces from a container that fell into the ocean off BritainA's Cornish coast in 1997 are still washing up on beaches today Millions of Lego pieces disappeared into the sea in February of 1997, when the container ship Tokio Express was hit by a wave that knocked 62 containers overboard.

UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Divina Grossman and officials from the University's School for Marine Science & Technology praised legislators today for their continued commitment to invest in cooperative fisheries research that engages scientists and fishermen in the pursuit of accurate data.

Research meteorologists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, employing the Navy's Mid-Course Doppler Radar at Cape Canaveral, were able to characterize mid-level, mixed-phase altocumulus clouds.

An upcoming Special Economic Zone project in Thane is threatening a large chunk of wetland along the Thane Creek -- designated as an Important Bird Area by BNHS and BirdLife International .

The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori delivers the sermon at Christ Church in Savannah on Sunday, July 20, 2014.