Fairbanks (Global Adventures): One of the most advanced Arctic research vessels, the R/V Sikuliaq (see-KOO-lee-auk), is currently under construction and will begin operations in January 2014. Owned by the National Science Foundation, the oceanographic research ship will accommodate up to 26 scientists and students. The vessel "will provide a much needed, technologically-advanced oceanographic platform to [...]

Fairhaven (Global Adventures): Warm water resulting in a lack of Oxygen could be the cause for the dead of thousands of menhaden fish. The Boston Globe reports that fishermen and owners of vacation homes in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, have noticed dead Brevoortia tyrannus on the beaches and in the coastal waters. Other news reports say that [...]

Halifax (Global Adventures): Plankton, a synonym for drifting organisms that inhabit the top layers of the Earth oceans and seas, declined by about 1 percent annually over the last century, a new study published in the journal Science suggests. Researchers from the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, did combine satellite-derived observations of phytoplankton with historical [...]

Melbourne (Global Adventures): Improving the quality of local water increases the resistance of coral reefs to global climate change, a new study conducted by the Florida Institute of Technology finds. Coral reef ecologist Robert van Woesik his team showed that when waters in the Florida Keys warmed over the last few summers, corals living in [...]

Antarctica (Global Adventures): Melting ice in West Antarctica is contributing a substantial and increasing volume to the global sea level rise, a new report by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) concludes. The Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is the major source of fresh water pouring into the oceans, scientists say. Researchers from the BAS, Lamont-Doherty Earth [...]

Stockholm (Global Adventures): The Electrolux Group wants to manufacture vacuum cleaners from plastic waste harvested from the Earths Ocean. The world's second largest appliance manufacturer says that the project would not only help to clean up the garbage patches discovered in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans plus the Mediterranean Sea, it would also boost the [...]

Knoxville (Global Adventures): A sub-seafloor site that is possibly the Earth's largest biological reservoir on Earth has been discovered under 850 feet (259 meters) of rock that makes up the ocean floor 8,727 feet (2,660 meters) below the surface. Beth Orcutt, a post doctoral fellow at Aarhus University in Denmark and the University of Southern [...]