Texas Sportfisherman Found Unconscious in the Water in Monashka Bay on Kodiak Island
Alaska State Troopers responded to a 911 call from Monashka Bay reporting a sportfisherman unconscious in the water on Wednesday.
Chikyu Sets a New World Drilling-Depth Record of Scientific Ocean Drilling
Off Hachinohe, Japan—Scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu set a world new record by drilling down and obtaining rock samples from deeper than 6,926 feet below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
Mars's Dramatic Climate Variations are Driven by the Sun
On Mars's poles there are ice caps of ice and dust with layers that reflect to past climate variations on Mars. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have related the layers in the ice cap on Mars's north pole to variations in solar insolation on Mars, thus established the first dated climate history for Mars, […]
Activists Demonstrate against Russia's Arctic Drilling
MOSCOW — At least 10 environmental activists have been arrested outside the headquarters of Russia’s energy giant, Gazprom. The Greenpeace demonstrators are protesting Russia's Arctic drilling.