Aug 23 2010

Beyond the Black Box

Tag: Air Travel, Aircraft, Artifacts, Atlantic Ocean, Aviation, Batteries, Birds, Child, Colleges, Communication, Computers, Design, Devices, Disasters and Accidents, Electronics, Engaged, Engineering, Engines, Events, Experts, Eye, Fall, Father, Fear, Glass, Government, Health Insurance, History, Internet, Inventions, Investigation, Lawsuits, Logging, Mining, Movies, Murder, Navy, Oceania and Australia, Office, Officer, Polar Regions, Privacy, Radio, Safety, Satellites, Science, Seas, Sensors, Storage, Streams, Submarine, Suicide, Technology, The Future, Touch, Transportation — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:00 am
Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.

Aug 19 2010

Giant Underwater Oil Plume Found in Gulf of Mexico

Tag: Autonomous Robots, Deep Sea, Disasters and Accidents, Experiments, Government, NOAA, Oceans, Oil Spill, Science, Scientists, Seas, Vehicles — Larry O'Hanlon @ 6:00 pm
A new survey of the waters around the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster has found a massive, submerged plume of hydrocarbons.

Aug 19 2010

Mystery of the Missing Ocean Plastic

Tag: Animals, Atlantic Ocean, Barnacles, Chemistry, Environment, Fish, Food Chain, Oceans, Plastic, Recycling, Seas, Waste — Emily Sohn @ 6:00 pm
We’re throwing away more and more plastic. If it’s not ending up in the open Atlantic, where is it going?

Aug 18 2010

Giant Squid: How Do You Film One?

Tag: Animals, Carnivores, Documentaries, Fishing, Predators, Seas, Squid — Jorge Ribas @ 4:32 pm
The effort to film the elusive 60-foot-long carnivore alive in its environment will entail a bevy of new tricks.

Aug 16 2010

Antarctic Sea Ice Growth Could Reverse

Tag: Antarctic Ocean, Antarctica, Climate, Global Warming, Seas — Larry O'Hanlon @ 7:01 pm
Defying the global warming trend, Antarctic sea ice has been growing -- but that won't last long.

Aug 13 2010

Rare ‘princess’ turtle returns to Malaysia

Tag: Beach, Eggs, Endangered Species, Experts, Fisheries, Green, Pacific Ocean, Seas, Turtles — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:44 pm
A leatherback turtle has made a surprise return to a Malaysian beach after 32 years, renewing hopes for the endangered species.

Jul 30 2010

Fishing Industry Fears Oil’s Lingering Effects

Tag: Boat, Disasters and Accidents, Explosions, Fish, Fishing, Hearing, Jobs, Money, Oil Spill, Safety, Scientists, Seafood, Seas, Summer, Trial — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:45 pm
Fishermen have been an integral part of cleanup operations, but they could end up losing their jobs for a second time.

Jul 26 2010

Sharks Harbor Deadly Bacteria

Tag: Antibiotics, Bacteria, Drugs, Fish, Marine Life, Medicine, Seas, Sharks — Eric Bland @ 1:00 pm
The finely serrated teeth of sharks are fearsome enough, but now scientists say that even touching the skin of a shark could harm you -- by infection.

Jul 21 2010

Hundreds of Dead Penguins Wash Up in Brazil

Tag: Animals, Environment, Penguins, Seas, Wild Animals — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 2:18 am
Scientists are investigating the causes of death, and the most likely scenario is exhaustion and hunger.

Jul 19 2010

US Orders BP to Report on ‘Seep’ at Gulf Oil Well

Tag: Man-Made Disasters and Accidents, Oil Spill, Petroleum, Seas — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 2:29 am
Hydrocarbons have been detected near the capped gusher, experts are investigating the source.
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