Washington, DC (Global Adventures): Scientists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have proposed to re-classify the loggerhead sea turtle’s designation from “threatened” to the more critical “endangered” category. Environmental groups say that the proposal could be a turning point leading to greater protection.
“Following a thorough assessment of [...]

Siberia (Global Adventures): Huge quantities of Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, are bubbling from the seabed north of Siberia. Scientist from Russia, the U.S. and Sweden suspect that the permafrost, a thick layer of soil that remains frozen all year, is “destabilizing.”
“The amount of methane currently coming out of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is [...]

Newton (Global Adventures): Americans expect to travel more in 2010 than in 2009. Forty-one percent of U.S. respondents said they plan to spend more on leisure travel in 2010 than they did in 2009 and 92 percent of travelers are planning to take two or more leisure trips in the coming year, up from 89 [...]

Cambridge (Global Adventures): The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) says that warming seas are accelerating the melting of polar ice in the west of Antarctica. The Cambridge (UK) based organization predicts that Sea levels are likely to rise by about 4 foot 6” (1.4 meters) globally by 2100. The report called “Antarctic Climate Change [...]

Palau (Global Adventures): Palau, a small island and diver’s paradise in the Pacific, is currently creating the world’s first shark sanctuary to protect great hammerheads, leopard sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks and more than 130 other species fighting extinction. The news was announced today at the United Nations General Assembly.
“Palau will declare its territorial waters and [...]

New York (Global Adventures): The United States is hosting the 2009 International Maritime Organization (IMO) World Maritime Day Parallel Event. The event will kick off on Friday, October 16, in New York, at Pier 60 in cooperation with the North American Marine Environmental Protection Association. The first day will include panel discussions and awards as [...]

Cambridge (Global Adventures): Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created robotic fish. The machines can swim through water in a school or otherwise maneuver in places where underwater submarines can’t go. The robots can be used to inspect submerged structures such as boats, oil and gas pipes, according to MIT-engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi [...]

Monterey (Global Adventures): Researchers from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have carried out the first remote detection of a harmful algal species and its toxin.
Harmful algae blooms and marine bio-toxins can impact the whole marine food web and the human endeavors associated with living marine resources.  [...]