On April 16, 2012 NOAA released an online ocean floor viewer that allows anyone with internet access the ability to explore undersea features, including deep ocean canyons, sea mounts and coastal shelves. Check it out!
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It’s surprising that some of the largest mammals in the world would possess an organ of which humans are not aware. Well, now we are! Check out this neat blog post about how whales can handle those mouthfuls of water, and what new organ has been discovered that scientists think might help whales know when they’ve had enough.
A new analysis by the Navy suggests that ongoing training and testing activities could cause greater harm to marine mammals than previously estimated. Read more here.  Ian Joughin/Science/AAAS--Massive sections of ice (center front) have broken away from the Jakobshavn glacier into the sea. There's enough water stored in Greenland's glaciers to raise the sea level by 20 feet. Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland’s contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper limits some scientists thought possible, a new study shows. Read more about it here, or listen to NPR’s “All Things Considered” story here!  From ScienceShot; Adapted from S. Levitus et al., Geophys. Res. Letts.; © AGU 2012 According to a new study in press in Geophysical Research Letters, the heat trapped by greenhouse gases has warmed the world’s ocean consistently over the past 50+ years. Notably, our ocean stores over 90% of the heat generated by global warming. Read more here. In the search for answers to how global warming will be affecting our ecosystems, some researchers are turning to snails for answers. This Crosscut article features work done at FHL by professor Emily Carrington. Read more here!
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