This summer’s melt of Arctic ice has been smaller than in the last two years, but the long-term trend is down, scientists report.
Observing the oceans: information meeting for the media in Venice, Italy, on 21 September
ESA PR 23-2009. The world’s oceans are now being observed routinely and systematically by means of satellite and in situ techniques. The global ocean observing system is changing, however.
Mafia 'sank ships of toxic waste'
A ship that a mafia informant says contains radioactive waste is found off the coast of Italy.
Scientists Make Discoveries as They Map the Continental Shelf
A joint American-Canadian cruise exploring the frigid Arctic Ocean has mapped broad swaths of the extended continental shelf for the first time, scientists reported Thursday.
Earth experiment
Technical fixes for climate change ‘must be tested’
Announcement – NOAA: David Johnson Award for Outstanding Innovative Use of Earth Observation Satellite Data
The NOAA – David Johnson Award is presented by the National Space Club in honor of the first Administrator of what was to become the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Nominations may be submitted for individuals or groups. If nominating a group, all members of the group should have been actively involved in the design and/or implementation of the application, and each must be a United States citizen, national, or permanent resident.
Hunt on for explorer's lost plane
A Norwegian team is set to embark on an expedition to find the submerged wreck of a plane carrying the great polar explorer Roald Amundsen.
Warmer seas mean more food for fish
Predicting what will happen to the huge variety of marine ecosystems with climate change is fraught with difficulties, but researchers have found a surprising common denominator
Barents Sea in Bloom
This image of the summer phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea off the northwesternmost corner of Russia was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on August 19, 2009.
National Briefing | Environment: Ocean Temperatures Are Highest on Record
The average sea surface temperature was 1.06 degrees higher than the 20th-century average of 61.5 degrees.