Source: grist.org Published: September 20, 2016 By Jeremy Deaton Click here to watch “Living shorelines: How nature can help us beat back rising seas”: https://youtu.be/KcbTD_Uaa7U Next year, New York will break ground on the first section of a U-shaped wall around...
Source: theguardian.com Published: September 12, 2016 Work on the hull of the Energy Observer in Saint Malo, western France. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images Agence France-Presse Vessel aiming to be the ‘Solar Impulse of the seas’ will be powered solely by...
Source: theguardian.com Published: August 11, 2015 Illustration showing how Kepler Energy’s turbine rotor blades will look installed in a tidal fence configuration. Photograph: Kepler Energy Alex Kirby for Climate News Network, part of the Guardian Environment Network...
Source: reuters.com Published: July 18, 2016 NOTE: The video from the source link is no longer available Turning carbon dioxide into stone could remove it from the atmosphere permanently, according to scientists working in Iceland Even green geothermal power plants...
Source: theguardian.com Published: June 22, 2016 The barrier will be towed 12 miles out to sea for a year of sensor-monitored tests. Photograph: The Ocean Cleanup If tests of the 100 metre-long barrier that collects rubbish on the sea’s surface are successful, it...
Source: fix.com Published: May 10, 2016 Coral reefs are incredibly important to the diversity and health of our oceans. Making up only 0.2 percent of our oceans, but containing around a quarter of all marine fish species, coral reefs are second only to rainforests in...
Source: mnn.com Published: October 8, 2015 A green sea turtle swims under Midway Island Pier at Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. (Photo: Greg McFall/NOAA) Russell McLendon Earth is on the brink of a sea change. Its oceans are still mostly wild, without the...
Source: citylab.com Published: February 24, 2015 Stephen Mallon/Front Room Gallery John Metcalfe A photographer spent years watching heavy machinery hurl MTA cars into the Atlantic. Few people can say they’ve journeyed far offshore to watch an excavator sling...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: March 26, 2013 by Timon Sing 19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of...
