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First of Kind Map Reveals Extent of Ocean Plastic
2014-07-15 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: When marine ecologist Andres Cozar Cabaas and a team of researchers completed the first ever map of ocean trash, something didn't quite add up. Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans. But plastic production has quadrupled since the 1980s, and wind, waves, and sun break all that plastic into tiny bits the size of rice grains. So there should...
In Prince William Sound, remote-controlled gliders measure ocean acidification
2014-07-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: Ocean chemists are calling it revolutionary technology as unmanned gliders track how melting glaciers may be intensifying corrosive waters in Prince William Sound. Its been hugely successful. Weve flown these things all over inside and outside of Prince William Sound, weve had great control over them, weve been able to move them to exactly where we want them to be. They are making thousands of measurements all over, said Jeremy Mathis, director of the Ocean Environment Research Division...
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Fire ice: Canada's Ocean Networks explain the science behind the hype
2014-07-10 01:00:00| Power Technology
After a first successful extraction in Japan last year, the quest to harness seabed methane hydrates is gaining momentum, but is 'fire ice' all that it is hyped to be? Ocean Networks Canada scientist Martin Scherwath discusses the energy potential of
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HMS Ocean begins sea trials
2014-07-08 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The UK Royal Navys amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean has commenced sea trials, after the completion of a major refit at Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth, UK.
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2014-07-06 15:14:56| Real Estate - Topix.net
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