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Wednesday, 11 August 2021 12:06

HP Australia launches 'Generation Impact' in partnership with Ocean Impact Organisation to enable the next-gen of innovations for a healthy ocean

HP’s Generation Impact Incubator debuts at The Ocean Impact Pitchfest 2021, giving young Aussies the chance to bring their ocean-saving ideas to life, as HP announces over 50 of its products contain ocean-bound plastics.

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Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:55

CSIRO undertakes voyage to understand ocean impact on climate

The CSIRO has deployed a number of deep sea floats in the Southern Ocean to help increase the understanding of oceans, the way they warm and their impact on climate.

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Monday, 14 June 2010 23:12

New research supports vast ocean on ancient Mars

According to 2010 research from scientists at the University of Colorado, the planet Mars, long ago in its past, supported an ocean that covered approximately 36% of its surface.

 

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Thursday, 03 December 2009 20:05

CSIRO scientists hit the waves virtually

Australian scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have created virtual ocean waves over twenty meters tall in order to test how different types of oil and gas rigs withstand the real monster waves that impact them in the open sea.
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:51

Oceans have higher capacity to absorb carbon dioxide

According to a British study, the amount of carbon dioxide able to be absorbed into Earth’s oceans is much larger than previously thought.

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Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:09

Study predicts seabed response to climate change

Offshore infrastructure connected to oil and gas reserves is potentially at risk from the likely impact of climate change on the Australian seabed, according to the CSIRO following its completion of a five-year study.

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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 18:47

Did you know that 80% of ocean trash is plastics?

According to the UN Environment Programme, 80% of the trash taken from Earth’s oceans consists of plastics such as shopping bags and drinking bottles. The report calls thin film plastic bags "pointless." In other words, we don't need them anymore: get rid of them with a worldwide ban!

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Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:27

Highly credible climate modeling: northeast U.S. at flooding risk

According to a U.S. study of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current, a dramatic increase in the sea level of the northeast coast of the United States is possible by the end of the twenty-first century. Watch out Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C.

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Monday, 23 February 2009 21:08

High-tech 1/X Toyota car may feel at home in the sea

The 1/X design concept car by the Toyota Motor Corporation may one day use high-technology materials such as environmentally sustainable seaweed for the main material of its body. In the future, Toyota may use ecologically-friendly plant-base materials for all of its cars and trucks.
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 19:22

Houston, we have a rubber duckie problem!

NASA is looking for a few good rubber ducks, and they are willing to pay $100 for each lost duck dropped into the waters within a Greenland glacier.

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Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:41

DESTROYED: One out of five coral reefs

About 19% of Earth’s coral reefs, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, have been destroyed and the other 81% could follow the same path if humans do not actively (and successfully) reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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Friday, 10 October 2008 21:37

Never-before-seen marine species discovered in Southern Ocean

Scientists with the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research unit have discovered hundreds of new marine species while exploring the Southern Ocean among a waterscape of extinct volcanoes.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 22:37

Deepest living fish scooped up, said to be "cute"

Scientists have recovered the “deepest ever” living fish at 4.8 miles under the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Film of the fish shows them to be living as a family, and described as very active and "cute."

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Thursday, 31 July 2008 22:51

Spacecraft Jason 2 completes first surface maps of Earth's oceans

According to the 7.30.2008 NASA news release, “Ocean surface topography mission/Jason 2 begins mapping oceans,” the internationally sponsored Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) featuring the Jason 2 oceanography satellite is well on its way to completing its mission of monitoring and analyzing global climate change.


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Saturday, 12 July 2008 21:13

NASA maps potential ocean areas for 'œgreen' wind power

NASA scientists have been developing ocean maps for almost ten years using the NASA QuikSCAT satellite. The maps are now being used to find ocean areas where winds could produce an abundance of electrical energy.
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 01:15

Inhumane humans blamed for unhealthy U.S. coral reefs

According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 50% of all coral reefs in U.S. waters are either in “poor” or “fair” condition. NOAA places the blame on their terrible condition on human beings, with one federal official calling humans the “most invasive species of all.”

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Friday, 20 June 2008 20:58

French/U.S. Jason 2 launches to measure rising sea levels

NASA announced Friday, June 20, 2008, that the ocean monitoring satellite Jason 2 was launched successfully from the U.S. Air Force’s Vandenberg Air Force Base (California) at 12:46 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), 0746 GMT.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 02:22

JOCI grades United States on ocean policy'”where's the dunce cap?

The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative (JOCI) grades the states and the U.S. government on their 2007 ocean-policy performance. State and regional governments made the grade, but the federal government needs summer school for a lot of additional tutoring.
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 08:32

Brittlestar Volcanica: the search for food

A city of tiny "brittlestar" starfish have been found on a huge undersea volcano, waving their "arms" in the water to catch passing by particles of food.

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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 18:33

Bikini bounces back from Big Bomb

The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States was centered at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (South Pacific Ocean) on March 1, 1954. Fifty-four years later scientists find an abundance of underwater life—but, above ground, only uninhabitable land.  
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