Tracey Williams Sixty-two containers were swept overboard from the Tokio Express cargo ship near Land’s End in 1997 A Lego shark caught by a fisherman off the South West coast years after being swept off a ship is to be auctioned for charity. Richard West landed the first-ever reported shark from the 51,800 Lego sharks in one of 62 containers …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🛰️ Satellites like CryoSat-2 have revealed hidden subglacial lakes in Antarctica. These lakes are part of interconnected hydrological networks that affect glacier movements. Sudden drainage of lakes acts as a lubricant, accelerating glacier flow towards the ocean. The hidden lakes demand updated climate models to accurately predict sea level rise. Deep beneath the icy surface of Antarctica …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🌡️ Record-breaking Antarctic temperatures highlight alarming climate shifts. 🌪️ Collapse of the polar vortex speed linked to Pacific surface temperature rise. 🐧 Unprecedented sea ice loss and penguin breeding failures observed. 🌊 Changes in ice melt impact global sea levels and marine ecosystems. In recent weeks, atmospheric temperatures over Antarctica have soared to unprecedented levels, raising alarms …
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QUICK FACTS Where is it? Grand Erg Oriental, Sahara [30.13306820, 9.306920931] What’s in the photo? The stark contrast where a field of “star dunes” meets rocky hills Which satellite took the photo? EarthKAM camera, on board the International Space Station When was it taken? Oct. 31, 2017 This striking satellite image shows the stark difference between a giant field of …
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Sometime in the Middle Eocene epoch, nearly 50 million years ago, a large object hurtled through Earth’s atmosphere, crashing into the North Sea between what’s now Britain and northwestern Europe. The impact formed a crater 1 kilometer (about half a mile) deep and 3 kilometers wide. A plume of debris and water blasted skyward before falling back down, triggering a …
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What started as a routine cleaning job turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for Jennifer Dowker, a boat captain and scuba instructor in Cheboygan, Michigan. While cleaning the hull of her glass-bottom tour boat, she spotted a small green bottle resting on the riverbed. Curious, she dove down and retrieved it—only to find a delicate, handwritten note inside. To her surprise, …
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It’s not always easy inferring behavior from the fossil record because most often all the squishy bits are gone and we’re left to fill in the gaps from the odd bony bits n’ bobs. Sometimes, however, ancient creatures make palaeontologists’ lives a bit easier by remaining virtually complete for say, oh I don’t know, 240 million years? A round of …
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SpaceX launched two dozen more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit this morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink craft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast today at 12:26 a.m. EDT (0426 GMT; 9:26 p.m. on Sept. 25 local California time). About 8.5 minutes later, the Falcon 9’s first stage touched down on …
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Stunning microscopic footage has captured the moment a translucent baby sea urchin crawled across a bed of red algae. The video earned fifth place in the annual Nikon Small World in Motion competition. Alvaro Migotto, a zoologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, captured the mesmerizing video of the juvenile sea urchin as it moved across its habitat …
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This Irish sea moss, Chondrus Crispus, is dried, raw and full of nutrients. Katerina Solovyeva/500px Plus/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Katerina Solovyeva/500px Plus/Getty Images What grows in the ocean, is packed full of nutrients and, if you listen to wellness influencers, can do everything from boosting your gut health to giving you glowing skin? It’s sea moss, the latest …
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