North Sea cod: Is it true there are only 100 left?
By Hannah Barnes & Richard Knight BBC News If recent reports are to be believed, the North Sea cod’s days are numbered. But should we believe these reports? What do the experts say about the numbers of fish that are…
Cayman Brac takes pioneering role in electric vehicle rentals
Cayman Brac has become one of the first island in the Caribbean to offer electric vehicles for rent according to John Felder of Cayman Automotive Group. The service is offered through the Alexander Hotel and was officially launched on Friday…
Experts to check on “Stinky”
Stinky, Cayman Islands’ seemingly sexually frustrated male dolphin, is to be given specialist treatment with the arrival of two marine mammal experts from the USA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) this week. Travelling with them will be a specialist…
A History of Head Bobs
by Yoel Stuart If you were to cast lizards as characters in a remake of The Great Gatsby, anoles, of course, would have to be cast as protagonist Jay Gatsby. “ Why Gatsby?” you might ask. Well, like Gatsby, anoles…
Reef research center to help unlock, preserve sea treasures
By Ariel Barkhurst, Sun Sentinel In a $50 million five-story brick and glass building in John U. Lloyd Beach State Park, researchers are taking the biomass of crustaceans to help study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, cultivating asexual…
Human Impacts on Antarctica and Threats to the Environment – Pollution
Pollution Everyone has heard of the ozone layer and the ozone hole that allows too much harmful ultra violet light to get through the earth’s atmosphere over the south pole during the Austral spring. This is caused by the pumping…
Hubble captures extraordinary view of Universe
By Jonathon Amos BBC Science correspondent The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date. Called the eXtreme Deep Field, the picture captures a mass of galaxies stretching back almost to…
Envisat imaged by sharp-eyed Pleiades
By Jonathan Amos,Science correspondent, BBC News Engineers have managed to get the first detailed photographs of the crippled Envisat platform. Europe’s flagship Earth observation satellite shut down unexpectedly over the Easter weekend and is not responding to any commands. The…
Satellites trace sea level change
Scientists have reviewed almost two decades of satellite data to build a new map showing the trend in sea levels. Globally, the oceans are rising, but there have been major regional differences over the period. A major reassessment of 18…
Record Arctic sea ice loss is an emergency requiring urgent attention says Jeff Masters
Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog posted on Weather Underground, Sept 20th The extraordinary decline in Arctic sea ice during 2012 is finally over. Sea ice extent bottomed out on September 16, announced scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data…
