“It is very plausible that we’ve fallen off a cliff already and don’t know it,” said one researcher. The system of Atlantic Ocean currents that drive warm water from the tropics toward Europe is at risk of collapsing in the coming decades, an analysis of 150 years of temperature data published Tuesday concluded. “The Atlantic Meridional Overturning […]
Marine Energy Will Play a Key Role in Achieving Alaska’s Clean Energy Goals Palmer, Alaska, and Portland, Maine – ORPC, Inc., and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough announced a partnership today to test ORPC’s RivGen Power System at the Upper Cook Inlet industrial and commercial port facility of Port MacKenzie. The RivGen System, which harnesses clean, sustainable energy from free-flowing tidal and river currents, […]
A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their international colleagues found that freshwater runoff from rivers and continental shelf sediments are bringing significant quantities of carbon and trace elements into parts of the Arctic Ocean via the Transpolar Drift—a major surface current that moves water from Siberia across the […]