North Sea catch quotas down again, but is it enough?
The Guardian has several articles on the new North Sea quotas set by the EU fisheries commission. The scientist say that species such as cod […]
Atlantic Ocean
Hydrogen economy in Scotland
The Scottish newspaper The Herald has an article on an effort to make the island of Islay into a “mini-hydrogen economy”. The hydrogen will be […]
Extracting hydrogen from waste biomass
Researchers at the Process Technology Group at Warwick University, UK, have come up with a new process to extracting hydrogen from wet waste, i.e. wast […]
What a drag
Attaching what looks like fungus on a tree trunk to offshore platform legs or ocean pipes can help reduce forces due to drag and vortex […]
Depleted Atlantic fish stocks
The Economist reports on research performed by academics at the University of British Columbia which shows in detail how the fish stocks of the Northern […]
Using cold seawater to grow vegetables and produce fresh water
New Scientist January 2002 issue has a very good article on The Seawater Greenhouse, developed by Charlie Paton. In short it can be described as […]
Is New York in line for a wakeup call for the US?
Vivien Gornitz of the Columbia University warns in Global Planetary Change that New York may experience severe flooding of rail, subway and road tunnels in […]