Graph of the Day: Mean Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies for the Australia Region, 1900-2011

Annual (line) and decadal (box) mean sea-surface temperature anomalies for the Australian region relative to the 1961–1990 average. The average value for the most recent 10-year period (2002–2011) is shown in darker grey. Sea-surface temperatures in the Australian region in 2010 were the highest on record, with nine of the months during 2011 ranked in […]

Ice age study delivers blow to global-warming skeptics

By Pete Spotts, Staff writer 5 April 2012 Rising levels of carbon dioxide drove much of the global warming that thawed Earth at the end of the last ice age. That’s the conclusion a team of scientists has drawn in a new study examining the factors that closed the door on the last ice age, […]

Oceans have been warming for over a century

By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com 2 April 2012 In 1872, the HMS Challenger pulled out from Portsmouth, England to begin an unprecedented scientific expedition of the world’s oceans. During its over three year journey the HMS Challenger not only collected thousands of new species and sounded unknown ocean depths, but also took hundreds of temperature readings—data […]

Fukushima radiation tracked across Pacific Ocean

By Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor2 April 2012 Radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been found in tiny sea creatures and ocean water some 186 miles (300 kilometers) off the coast of Japan, revealing the extent of the release and the direction pollutants might take in a future environmental disaster. In some places, the […]

Graph of the Day: Radioactive Seawater Impact from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, March 2012

We use a Lagrangian particles dispersal method to track where free floating material (fish larvae, algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton…) present in the sea water near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station plant could have gone since the earthquake on March 11th. THIS IS NOT A REPRESENTATION OF THE RADIOACTIVE PLUME CONCENTRATION. Since we do not […]

Far more radioactive cesium released from Fukushima meltdowns than previously believed

By AKIKO OKAZAKI / Staff Writer29 February 2012 A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 disaster, scientists say. Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute, released the finding at […]

Pacific sea otters’ failure to thrive confounds wildlife sleuths

By INGFEI CHEN27 February 2012 MONTEREY, California – On a fog-shrouded morning in Monterey Bay, wildlife researchers are out to capture a southern sea otter named Blanca — part of a three-year project to learn why her species, hunted to near extinction a century ago, is still in trouble here despite decades of efforts to […]

Nigeria president visits village near Chevron gas rig fire that has raged for weeks

By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press27 February 2012 KOLUAMA 2, Nigeria – Nigeria’s president attempted to calm anger in villages Monday near a Chevron Corp. offshore natural gas rig that has been engulfed in a raging fire for weeks, though no official could say when the inferno will be extinguished. President Goodluck Jonathan offered few […]

Chevron begins drilling relief well to extinguish Nigeria rig fire

By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku21 February 2012 Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) has begun the process of drilling a relief well to seal the Funiwa 1A natural gas well. According to a statement by the company, the relief well is being drilled to extinguish a fire that began January 16 at the original well, located approximately six miles […]

Oregon preparing for debris from Japanese tsunami

Media Contact: Mark Floyd, 541-737-0788       Jack Barth, 541-737-1607      Kathy Higley, 541-737-0675      Jamie Doyle, 541-572-5263 CORVALLIS, Oregon, 1 February 2012 – As the one-year anniversary of the devastating 11 March 2011, Japanese earthquake approaches, and debris from the ensuing tsunami moves closer to the West Coast, a group of Oregon agencies, university scientists, political staff, non-governmental […]

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