Plastic Pollution Causes ‘Tons’ of Problems as New Estimates Reveal Litter on the Rise

Medicine & Technology Dec 15, 2014

While the biochemistry of the world’s oceans may be a complex study, with a myriad of variants, researchers are certain of one simple fact—man-made plastics do not belong in the oceans. And the pollution of our oceans is far more vast than the world would like to admit. But in a new study recently published in this week’s issue of the journal PLOS ONE researchers are saying that the Earth’s oceans may contain more than 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic particulates, weighing nearly 270,000 tons combined which is far larger than previous studies ever estimated the pollution to be.

More Seafloor Methane Released Into the Pacific Ocean

Dec 11, 2014

Increased Seafloor Methane Released Into the Pacific Ocean

Orphaned Sea Otter Pup Finds New Home Far from the Pacific

Nov 08, 2014

Abandoned four weeks ago, at only a couple of days old, a sea otter pup rescued by the Monterey Bay Aquarium has not only found a second chance, but a new home far from Pacific coast.

An Urban Legend or Possible Truth? Amelia Earhart May Have Been Eaten Alive

Oct 31, 2014

Since her disappearance on July 2, 1937, many have questioned the final hours of pilot Amelia Earhart’s life. Was she lost at sea when her plane disappeared over the South Pacific? Or did she go down with her plane? While many feared the worst, urban legends abounded creating alternate endings for Earhart’s expedition around the world—and it appears that one of those endings may be more frightening that the plane crash itself.

Forget Bigfoot—Could Sonar Anomaly be Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane?

Oct 31, 2014

It’s been an urban legend almost 80 years in the making, that famous female aviator Amelia Earhart was marooned on an island in the South Pacific. And new evidence, including a fragment of her aircraft found and a sonar anomaly 600-feet underwater, may just hold the clues to unlock this decades old mystery.

Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane May Have Been Found in the South Pacific

Oct 30, 2014

Amelia Earhart was the first female of her kind; in fact, she set records for it. As the first female aviator to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean alone, she made the headlines of the 1920’s. And now, almost a century later, she’s still making news as the mystery of her disappearance comes more into light. After decades of searching across the Pacific Ocean, nearest the equator, researchers revealed this week that they may have found a bit of Earhart’s wreckage from the plane she disappeared in.

UN Messenger of Peace Donates Millions Towards Ocean Conservation—Leonardo DiCaprio

Oct 19, 2014

Well, it appears that even after a controversial display last month at the United Nation’s (UN) Climate Summit held in New York City, renowned actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio is using more than his words to cause a change: he’s putting his money where his mouth is.

On Droughts and Dust Bowls—California Looks Back to 1934

Oct 17, 2014

Recently accepted for publication by the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, the research lead by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyzed the relative intensity and devastation caused by droughts since 1000 AD and found that though the 2014 summer in California was particularly out of the ordinary even in the driest of areas, it did not quite compare to the drought of 1934.