Making new Cape memories at Falmouth’s Sea Crest Beach Hotel

Oct. 8, 2011   2 Comments  

Step out of your room and right onto the beach (Blast staff photo/John M. Guilfoil)

Feels like the Cape should be

Ocean dead zones

Aug. 13, 2011   Leave a Comment  

Perhaps the most infamous U.S. dead zone is an 8,500 square mile swath of the Gulf of Mexico, not far from where the nutrient-laden Mississippi River, which drains farms up and down the Midwest, lets out.

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Fishing technologies are destroying deep ocean species

March 19, 2011   Leave a Comment  

Scientists speculate that some 10 million different species may inhabit the deep sea. Pictured: a ghostly grenadier on the Davidson Seamount, an undersea mountain 75 miles off the coast of Central California. The seamount is 7,480 feet tall, yet its summit is still 4,101 feet below the sea surface. (NOAA)

It may already be too late

EarthTalk: Plankton in the oceans

Nov. 2, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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How is loss of microscopic ocean plankton affecting the environment as a whole?

EarthTalk: Greening your high school? Desalinization worries?

Dec. 22, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Dear EarthTalk: I want to convince my high school to go green. What would it cost for a school to switch to all recycled paper products and all energy efficient lighting? – Danel Berman, via e-mail Greening your school is a great idea. It will not only benefit the environment but the student body as [...]

EarthTalk: Ocean dead zones? Green condos?

Oct. 13, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Dear EarthTalk: What are these “ocean deserts” I’ve been hearing about? Also, didn’t I read that there was a huge mass of plastic bottles floating around somewhere on the ocean surface? – Wally Mattson, Eugene, OR So-called “ocean deserts” or “dead zones” are oxygen-starved (or “hypoxic”) areas of the ocean. They can occur naturally, or [...]

Gallery: High-res artwork for East India Company

Sept. 23, 2008   Leave a Comment  

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Lighthouse Interactive released images of three of the ships from the upcoming oceanic real-time strategy game Easy India Company. [...]