A History of Head Bobs
by Yoel Stuart If you were to cast lizards as characters in a remake of The Great Gatsby, anoles, of course, would have to be cast as protagonist Jay Gatsby. “ Why Gatsby?” you might ask. Well, like Gatsby, anoles…
Reef research center to help unlock, preserve sea treasures
By Ariel Barkhurst, Sun Sentinel In a $50 million five-story brick and glass building in John U. Lloyd Beach State Park, researchers are taking the biomass of crustaceans to help study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, cultivating asexual…
Human Impacts on Antarctica and Threats to the Environment – Pollution
Pollution Everyone has heard of the ozone layer and the ozone hole that allows too much harmful ultra violet light to get through the earth’s atmosphere over the south pole during the Austral spring. This is caused by the pumping…
Hubble captures extraordinary view of Universe
By Jonathon Amos BBC Science correspondent The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date. Called the eXtreme Deep Field, the picture captures a mass of galaxies stretching back almost to…
Envisat imaged by sharp-eyed Pleiades
By Jonathan Amos,Science correspondent, BBC News Engineers have managed to get the first detailed photographs of the crippled Envisat platform. Europe’s flagship Earth observation satellite shut down unexpectedly over the Easter weekend and is not responding to any commands. The…
Satellites trace sea level change
Scientists have reviewed almost two decades of satellite data to build a new map showing the trend in sea levels. Globally, the oceans are rising, but there have been major regional differences over the period. A major reassessment of 18…
Record Arctic sea ice loss is an emergency requiring urgent attention says Jeff Masters
Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog posted on Weather Underground, Sept 20th The extraordinary decline in Arctic sea ice during 2012 is finally over. Sea ice extent bottomed out on September 16, announced scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data…
Discovery of tagged captive stingrays sparks DOE call for legislation
Gina Ebanks-Petrie, Director of the Cayman Islands Department of Environment (DOE), has called for amending the marine conservation law or passing the national conservation law and adding stingrays as a protected species to prevent people from taking these marine creatures,…
Deepest undersea volcanic vents – Cayman Trough “black smokers” set world record
A British scientific expedition aboard the RRS James Cook has discovered the world’s deepest undersea volcanic vents, known as ‘black smokers’, 3.1 miles (five kilometers) beneath the surface of the Caribbean in an area known as the Cayman Trough. The…
Hurricane Isaac Is a Wake-Up Call for Coastal Restoration
By Cindy Brown / The Nature Conservancy Cindy Brown is the Gulf Coast Program Director for The Nature Conservancy and a New Orleans native. Our conversation began with the simple message in her subject line: Y’all ok? Amy, officemate but…
