Rising temperatures make carbon dioxide leak from the oceans for two main reasons. First, melting sea ice increases the rate that the ocean mixes, which dredges up CO2-rich deep ocean waters.
Hydronalix, a marine-robotics firm based, rather surprisingly, in landlocked Arizona, has come up with emily-the Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard.
It was a day compounded from silences of bee and flower and ocean and land, which were not silence at all, but motions, stirs, flutters, risings, fallings, each in its own time and matchless rhythm.
In January 1994 an oil barge ran aground off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, leaking its cargo of 750000 gallons into the ocean while causing the pollution of the city's beaches.