From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 510 views • 9:10Videos (87) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
The Royal Ocean Film Society https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWq-qJSudqKrzquTVep9Jwg/videos
posted by BSR 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 76 views • 7:14Cuz the ocean is weird.
posted by newtboy 4 years 4 weeks ago • 318 views • 10:15Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 171 views • 57 secsWave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 877 views • 3:16Warmer Pacific temperatures are decimating kelp forests, the most diverse and important ecosystems off the West coast. Without these nurseries for ocean fish, their populations are due to collapse quickly.
posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months ago • 368 views • 11:07Ice lost in Greenland means higher sea levels around the world. "Oceans Melting Greenland," a NASA program in its fourth year, is studying the melt. So far, measurements indicate a rate of melt exceeding... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 325 views • 3:27YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 1,838 views • 3:58An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,322 views • 2:14This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 516 views • 4:57YouTube description: The Yucatan peninsula is one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world and every year just offshore from Cancun, the largest fish in the ocean aggregates in vast numbers to feed. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 761 views • 5:26"... You know you’ve wondered. Do fish actually pee? And what does that make the ocean… one big toilet? ..."
posted by ant 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 44 views"Pacific mole crabs, also known as sand crabs, make their living just under the surface of the sand, where they're safe from breaking waves and hungry birds. Some very special physics help them dig with... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 90 views • 3:52YouTube description: Less than 2 percent of the ocean floor has been explored by scientists. “Every time we go to the deep sea, we find new species of organisms,” explains geobiologist Victoria... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 129 views • 9:46"... When nutrients from the ocean depths reach the sunlit surface (like in the Galapagos), life is more productive..."
posted by ant 5 years 9 months ago • 54 views • 2:56Until recently, Canada didn't have a road link to the Arctic Ocean. But last year, the all-weather Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway opened, which meant that finally the country was connected "from sea to sea... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,383 views • 3:16