Tag: oceanography
Oceans, a film in homage to nature
Discover the sea and the waters like you’ve never seen them before through these images taken during the filming of the film oceans, by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud. Dive…
Green tide: what is it?
Algae Ulva Armoricana during a green tide in the north of Finistère. © Thesupermat, Wikipedia, GNU 1.2 A green tide is the name given to a proliferation of green marine…
One Ocean Summit: experts at the bedside of the oceans
This decade is the decade of the oceans with the One Ocean summit which is held in Brest from February 9 to 11, 2022. Its objective is to mobilize interested…
Antarctica: whirlpools in the ocean are preventing the sea ice from melting…for now!
The Earth is heating up. And yet on the Antarctic side, the sea ice cover seems to want to remain stable. A paradox that researchers are struggling to explain. But…
‘Significant and potentially irreversible’ ocean deoxygenation began to occur in 2021
Among the effects of global warming is the deoxygenation of the oceans. An effect that researchers have tried to quantify. According to them, by 2080, no less than 70% of…
Top 20 of the most beautiful ice landscapes
On Earthice can be found on all continents, whether in the form of glaciersicebergs, ice floes orice sheet. His astonishing relationship to light explains, among other things, its incredible variations…
Perseverance, the Polar Pod supply ship, unveiled by Jean-Louis Étienne
There was Perseverance, the NASA rover sent to Mars last February. From now on, there will also be Perseverance, the supply ship attached to the Polar Pod mission. It was…
Perseverance, the Polar Pod supply sailboat
There was Perseverance, the NASA rover sent to Mars last February. From now on, there will also be Perseverance, the supply ship attached to the Polar Pod mission. It was…
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…
A mammoth tusk discovered at 3,000 meters deep
During an underwater exploration off the coast of California, oceanographers discovered a mammoth tusk dating back more than 100,000 years. Its preservation, away from light and at low temperatures, will…