It has to be stressful: an obstacle course of giant dams, rushing rapids and hungry predators. That’s what juvenile salmon can face when they migrate out to the salty sea from the freshwater rivers and […]
Tag: Oceans and Seas
Xavier Le Pichon, Who Modeled Movement of Earth’s Crust, Dies at 87
Xavier Le Pichon, a French geophysicist whose pioneering model of the earth’s tectonic plates helped revolutionize how scientists understand movements of the earth’s crust, died on March 22 at his home in Sisteron, in the […]
Why These Islanders Hunt Dolphins
The call of a conch shell roused the dolphin hunters from their beds. Under moonlight, the six men shuffled to the village church. There a priest led them in a whispered prayer, his voice barely […]
Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals
The long-running battle over whether to allow Pacific Ocean seabed mining took an unexpected turn Thursday when a company disclosed it had been confidentially negotiating a plan with the Trump administration to circumvent a United […]
Global Sea Ice Hits a New Low
Earth is missing a lot of sea ice this year. Enough to cover the entire United States east of the Mississippi. That was announced by researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data […]
