New NOAA Website Offers Tips to Prepare For Coastal Flooding
Coastal flooding is often the greatest threat to life and property during and after storms.
Growing Traffic in Sri Lanka’s Waters Threatens Blue Whales
Fifteen miles off the southern coast of Sri Lanka is one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, and whales are known to swim regularly inside them…
Arctic drilling creeps forward now, and in 5 years
In choppy water under blue sky off Bellingham, Wash., a Shell Oil crew lowered a “capping stack” 200 feet in the water and put it through maneuvers with underwater robots connected by cable to operators on the surface, a test that fulfilled one of the final steps required for permission to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters…