Picture this: it’s warm, a little breezy, and you are strolling through some desolate beach at night. The sound of the flowing water is pleasant. The waves softly reach the shore, and suddenly, you notice something interesting. When you finally immerse your feet, a glittering blue and green wave sends across the ocean. Small animals…
In a world that quickly needs to change from fossil to renewable, there is a growing need for rare minerals such as cobalt and manganese. When we find them above ground, it is often in small quantities, but now it is believed that there is large deposits four thousand meters below the surface, in the…
The first time he was seen was in 2019 outside the city of Hammerfest in northern Norway, with a harness attached to him that read “Equipment St. Petersburg”. Which led to speculation that he had been trained as a Russian spy. And so he was named Hvaldimir, an amalgamation of the Norwegian word for whale…
Despite the fact that they live in one of the world’s most polluted seas – overcast, oxygen-poor and exposed to environmental toxins – several of the larger species in the Baltic Sea are doing reasonably well. This is shown in the new report from the Baltic Sea Center at Stockholm University, which compiled the latest…
The expression “the seven seas” was used in the past by sailors who sailed across all the world’s oceans. These include the North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean (Northern Ocean), Southern Ocean (Antarctic Ocean), and the Indian Ocean. The world ocean, also known as the oceans, is…