A Surf Park High In the Pyrenees
High in a misty valley in the Basque Pyrenees, miles from the ocean and surrounded by verdant sheep pastures, lies a prime surf spot. Its swells break with no wind or reef,…
View ArticleHow It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea
One possibility for future energy production involves harvesting the warmth of Earth’s tropical oceans, using the natural heat differentials in the water to drive turbines. It would be relatively...
View ArticleArchive Gallery: Man vs. Shark
The Olympics ended on Sunday, but if we know our readers, many of you were still glued to your televisions as the Discovery Channel's Shark Week began, with hours upon hours…
View ArticleVideo: Inside NASA's Spectacular Undersea Mission to Save Earth from a Deadly...
The possibility that Earth will be hit by an asteroid in our lifetime isn't huge. But here's the thing: the threat is so potentially catastrophic that even a small chance of…
View ArticleFYI: What Is Sea Foam? Where Does It Come From?
Just a few hours before a tornado touched down in Queens, New York this past September, I was hanging out on a beach in The Rockaways, a narrow peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic just southeast...
View ArticleFewer Reindeer, More Wildfires: Welcome To The Arctic In 2013
Summer sea ice in the Arctic got a respite this year, as did the Greenland ice sheet, because cooler summer temperatures prevented a repeat of 2012's record-setting melt.
View ArticlePlanning For A Future Of Robot Ships
When it comes to shipping, humans crews are inconvenient. They need places to sleep and to take care care of bodily functions, they probably require food and a place to…
View ArticleJohn Steinbeck's 1966 Plea To Create A NASA For The Oceans
Three years before the first humans landed on the moon, Nobel-prize winning author John Steinbeck published a passionate plea in Popular Science_ for equal efforts to…
View ArticleWhy Does The Sea Smell Like The Sea?
As I took a deep breath in, a familiar scent filled my nose: slightly sulfury, with just a pinch of green, and a briny finish. It was the smell of the seashore, but I…
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Climate Change Will Noticeably Reduce Oxygen In The Oceans By 2030
Environment It's getting harder and harder to breathe A study published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles found that we will be able to detect a loss of oxygen due to climate change in oceans all over...
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