Tag: ocean
How the waters from Fukushima will flow into the Pacific Ocean
The Japanese government has confirmed this. Within two years, it will start discharging more than a million cubic meters of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The operation…
Species take advantage of plastic waste in the ocean to cross ecological barriers
Since the Japanese tsunami of 2011, scientists suspect that coastal species may be able to surf plastic waste to find themselves living in the open sea. Thus breaking down biogeographical…
A surprisingly powerful carbon sink in the Southern Ocean
Too many human activities are the source of carbon dioxide emissions. Fortunately, this CO2 is partially absorbed not only by plants, but also by the oceans. Slowing down anthropogenic global…
Total solar eclipse visible from the southern Atlantic Ocean and over the Antarctic continent
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Global warming: rivers are emptying into the Arctic Ocean at high speed
Arctic rivers provide water and energy to more than 50 million people. They affect ecosystems. And impact the climate on a global scale. Hence the importance of having a detailed…
Global warming is accelerating the world’s strongest ocean current
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the most powerful ocean currents in the world. And thanks to new data, researchers now establish that it tends to accelerate … under the…
When the ocean advances… – It’s in your nature
The Moëze-Oléron Nature Reserve, on the Atlantic coast, is one of the main sites for migrating birds in France. But since the storm Xynthia, in 2010, we understood that the…
Trip to East Timor, a magical dive
Go on a trip to East Timor, a country ofarchipelago Indonesian ideal for scuba diving. It lies, for the most part, on the eastern half of the island of Timor,…
The Arctic Ocean has been warming for longer than previously thought
To explain the speed with which the Arctic seems to want to warm up, scientists cite, among other things, a phenomenon they have called Atlanticification. A phenomenon by which the…
Human activity has “broken” one of the fundamental laws of nature
The distribution of biomass in the oceans, which has always followed an unchanging rule, is now broken at the high end of the spectrum. The proof that humans are not…