Ocean

So what’s going on here? For one, the oceans have been steadily warming over the decades, absorbing something like 90 percent of the extra heat that humans have added to the atmosphere. “The oceans are our saviors, in a way,” says…

The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged a trawl net across the seafloor, devastating the ecosystems in its…

Secondly, the warmer water gets, the less dense it becomes. At the surface, you end up with a band of hot water, with cooler waters in the depths, a layering known as stratification. “If you've ever gone swimming in a lake in the summer,…

There are other wonderful touches, though, such as the fold-out “taco tray” that Henrik himself insisted on adding. Again, these details will sell the Ocean. It's immensely handy to have such features, especially in an EV where you might…

For a final point of comparison, Smith calculates that cosmic rays interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean annually cause the natural deposition of 2,000 times more tritium than will be introduced by the gradual…

A disturbing report is putting the issue of homelessness in America’s liberal utopia into a new and frightening perspective. On Saturday, The Epoch Times reported that massive amounts of sewage from homeless people living in…

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will soon release more than one million metric tons of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.The decision was made after a UN-backed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)…

The celestial force of water, Neptune, is going retrograde from June 30th until December 6, 2023. Some associate it with the astral, mystical unseen realms. While others see it as the god of the oceans and the seas. But what could…

David Corenswet has been anointed the new Superman, and judging from these pics, he's got more than just bulging biceps. …

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In the Fram Strait off Greenland’s west coast, Véronique Merten encountered the foot soldiers of an invasion.Merten was studying the region’s…