Putting a price tag on the ocean might just save it. A few years ago, Ralph Chami, a financial economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was on a boat in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez with researchers studying blue whales. He knew nothing about the whales—only that seeing them in the wild was on his “bucket list”—but the moment Chami saw his first blue whale surface next to their boat,…

When anchovies mate, they stir the ocean and spur a healthy ecosystem, study finds Researchers found that the frantic movement of anchovies during their spawning season has a significant impact on ocean turbulence. It's not about the size of the fish -- it's about the motion in the ocean. A new study led by Southampton University researchers has found that when some species of fish get frisky, their activity causes…

Why using the oceans to suck up CO2 might not be as easy as hoped The world’s oceans are amazing carbon sponges. They already capture a quarter of human-produced carbon dioxide when surface waters react with the greenhouse gas in the air or marine organisms gobble it up as they grow. Their effectiveness has prompted growing hopes that we could somehow accelerate those natural processes to boost the amount the…

In the coming years, it is thought that water will become a more important geopolitical resource than crude oil with demand set to rise more than 50 percent by 2030. As climate change and higher consumption dry up already scarce water supplies, especially in the Middle East and North Africa region, the risk of conflict over this vital resource also increases. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) hopes…

They're similar to sun-powered chargers, besides rather than power, they produce water. Source Global's hydro panels make water out of nowhere and it presents to it where's generally required. Chief Cody Friesen concocted the boards in 2014 at Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, where he's in the workforce. After a year, he transformed the science into Source Global. The beginning up's boards cost about $2,000 apiece.…

The water frameworks inside the world's structure and offices are a significant wellspring of carbon and other ozone-depleting substance outflows that add to the worldwide environment emergency, as indicated by another white paper delivered by WINT Water Intelligence. While the accessibility of clean water has been perceived as a pressing overall concern, fossil fuel byproducts related to the creation, treatment, and dispersion of clean water have frequently been ignored. "The…