The airwaves have opened up, as never before, the possibility of spreading the Good
News from sea to sea and around the globe.
Not exact matches
Dawn Blitz offered the perfect opportunity
to give Marines «a piece of the
sea control mission,» as USNI
News put it, and not just
from the deck of transport docks like the USS Anchorage.
The strike by the US, the UK, and France in Syria on Friday involved 105 missiles fired
from air and
sea to rain down thousands of pounds of explosives on three targets suspected of being chemical weapons facilities — but Israeli officials cited in a recent
news report characterized it as a failure.
«We have come with good
news to make you turn
from these empty idols
to the living God who made heaven and earth and the
sea and all that these hold.
«The good
news is that the nesting habits of
sea turtles do protect them
from large - scale nest loss and make them more resilient
to this kind of event.
This fabulous new graphic
from the Deep
Sea News crew and several other scientists represents * a lot * of research
to find out the true largest sizes of 25 ocean creatures of giant repute.
NEWS: Scientists have found evidence suggesting that melting icecap water
from the interior of Greenland is adding
to sea level rise faster than previously realised
In other nonfiction
news, Bill Bryson is back this season with At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Oct. 5), in which Bryson narrows his focus
from A Short History of Nearly Everything
to the confines of his own house, while Simon Winchester's Atlantic (Nov. 2) calls itself a «biography» of the Atlantic Ocean, weaving in both historical facts and personal details
from Winchester's own experiences at
sea.
This week I look at the
news from Anime Boston and Fanime, some new license announcements
from Seven
Seas Entertainment, the Vizmanga.com top 10, and bid a final farewell
to Jmanga.
Please visit
From Shore
to Sea Lecture Series or
News Releases for information on upcoming lectures.
First the bad
news, if you want
to see the
sea or even be able
to easily walk
to the
sea from your resort on Koh Chang then Ramayana isn't the resort for you.
Once this
news got around the wealthy and famous people
from the world over started
to descend into Cairns each year
to catch one of these
sea monsters for themselves.
PLAYTIME thus follows on
from Julien's acclaimed nine screen installation Ten Thousand Waves (2010)- currently on show at MoMA, New York - which offers a response
to the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, where twenty - three Chinese cockle pickers were lost at
sea, and Western Union: small boats (2007), which explores the perilous voyages of those attempting
to cross the Mediterranean
from Africa
to gain entry into «fortress Europe» a story that has tragically dominated the
news headlines once again in recent months.
And of course the new paper by Hausfather et al, that made quite a bit of
news recently, documents how meticulously scientists work
to eliminate bias in
sea surface temperature data, in this case arising
from a changing proportion of ship versus buoy observations.
In related
news, in the distant future — some say the near future — North America, northern Asia and Europe will see millions of climate refugees
from southern lands trekking northward, as you know, and our descendants in 2121 or 2222 might all might be under threat
from the devastating impacts of» climate chaos» —
from rising
sea levels
to a scary scarcity of food, fuel and shelter.
Climate
News Network: The Sahel, the arid belt of land that stretches
from the Atlantic
to the Red
Sea and separates the Sahara desert
from the African savanna, is no stranger
to drought and famine.
The president - elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning
to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings
from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise
sea levels at a dangerous pace, according
to several
news reports.
According
to a Norwegian
news outlet yesterday, Jon Aars (Fig. 1, below),
from the Norwegian Polar Institute, confirms that this has been an excellent year for polar bear cubs around Svalbard because there has been abundant
sea ice near denning areas on the east coast.
The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes
news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health;
Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement
to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments
from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.
News like the disintegration of an ice shelf the size of Rhode Island a month ago conjures a vision that a warming world will lead
to doom by drowning — not
from melting ice shelves, which like melting ice in a glass do not change water levels, but
from melting ice sheets sending their fresh water flowing toward the
sea.
«Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves
to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free - drifting icebergs in the nearby Weddell
Sea,» states a
news release
from the University of California at San Diego.
According
to the recent report out in Foreign Policy, and according
to other eyewitness accounts and
news reports coming in
from coastal West Africa during recent years,
sea level rise and increasing erosion due
to powerful storms continue
to produce worsening impacts for the region.
Rose's factually challenged article was predictably reproduced uncritically by the usual climate denial blogs and referenced by Fox
News, perhaps in an attempt
to distract
from this year's record - breaking Arctic
sea ice minimum.
This update on the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) program includes recent
news from each of SEARCH's three Action Teams as well as highlights
from other activities that contribute
to SEARCH goals, including the
Sea Ice Prediction Network, the
Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook, and the Arctic Observing Open Science meeting.
I realise your head may be mangled
from all the ice crashing images
from the
news and media stations but at some point you've got
to face up
to the facts the scientists are seeing no temperature changes in 50 yrs and ice crashes into the
sea every year, and has been for milleniums.
NEWS: Scientists have found evidence suggesting that melting icecap water
from the interior of Greenland is adding
to sea level rise faster than previously realised
Consider this account,
from Postmedia
News, of what happened in the summer of 2012, when federal scientists attempted to alert the public of the troubling news that Arctic sea ice cover had reached a record
News, of what happened in the summer of 2012, when federal scientists attempted
to alert the public of the troubling
news that Arctic sea ice cover had reached a record
news that Arctic
sea ice cover had reached a record low:
Or the
news from Antarctica this past May, when a crack in an ice shelf grew 11 miles in six days, then kept going; the break now has just three miles
to go — by the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the
sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as «calving.»
The problem that «grondeau» may have is that most scientific journals and
news agencies continue
to report
sea ice loss and glacier loss data
from the 1990s and early 2000s, ignoring the more recent data which has moderated significantly.
Although I find this interface over complex and using a design sensibility that's different
from the one I'm used
to on this side of the
sea (and even though it's clearly untested on Macs, because some of the type is too small even
to be rendered), I'd recommend that if you'd like your
news without the North American or U.S. slant you should give this a try.
Coming alongside the
news that a record 23 nations
from Southeast Asia and beyond would be joining biennial naval exercises in the eastern Indian Ocean, it was a potent reminder of just how eager the nations surrounding the South China
Sea are
to embrace powerful allies
to fend off a rising China.
As a part of that
news team, Erica spent a few nights at
sea with our United States Navy aboard the USS New York as it shifted home ports
from Norfolk, Virginia,
to Mayport.