The U.S. research vessel Sikuliaq can break through ice as thick as 2.5 feet (0.76 meters). In the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska this month, which should be brimming with floes, its limits likely won't be tested.
Environment
Nov 19, 2019
0
203
Humanity must heal oceans made sick by climate change and pollution to protect marine life and to save itself, experts warned days before the release of a major UN report.
Environment
Sep 20, 2019
0
27
What will the ecology of the Salish Sea look like in the year 2095?
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2019
0
27
Cells in the body are wired like computer chips to direct signals that instruct how they function, research suggests.
Cell & Microbiology
May 24, 2019
1
4243
DNA analysis recently confirmed that Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists and their collaborators at OceanX, the University of Connecticut (UConn), and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) discovered two ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2019
0
32
Scientists in the Galapagos Islands have attached tracers to five blue sharks for the first time as part of a project to study their migratory patterns, Ecuador's government said.
Ecology
Mar 21, 2019
0
5
Less than three months into its mission, NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is already exceeding scientists' expectations. The satellite is measuring the height of sea ice to within an inch, tracing ...
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2018
0
6
"Three, two, one ... drop!"
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2018
0
3
However, there was a small ice-free 'polynya' between the frozen continents and the open ocean where microscopic marine life prevailed, which would have provided otherwise unavailable food for fish and mammals.
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2018
0
81
Tropical Storm Maliksi formed in the Philippine Sea, off the northeastern coast of the Philippines as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead.
Earth Sciences
Jun 8, 2018
0
12
