Amoc is a system of ocean current circulating water with the Atlantic NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The demolition of a larger current in the Atlantic increases the sea surface and associated floods in the northeastern United States at the top of the already rising sea surface due to climate change. A total … Read more
Tianwan -atom power plant by the coast of the yellow sea in China Xinhua/Alamy Chinese researchers have developed an extremely energy efficient and cheap technology to extract uranium from seawater, a potential blessing for the country’s nuclear power ambitions. China is currently leading the world to build new nuclear power plants and storing its utanium … Read more
Manganese nodules on the seabed can be a source of oxygen Science History Images/Alamy Marine scientists who made headlines last year with their discovery that deep-sea nodules could produce “dark oxygen” are embarking on a three-year research project to explain their findings. Amid swirling controversy over their research, project leader Andrew Sweetman of the Scottish … Read more