Like a nice wool blanket can help a human baby stay warm and healthy, so too does a baby white spruce get protection from a blanket of snow. At the same time,…
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A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life
A combination of AI, a wild 1970s plan to build underwater cities, and a designer creating furniture on the seabed around the Bahamas might be the solution to the widespread destruction of…
Undersea-Aged Champagne Is Starting to Surface
If you’ve ever been hit by a flying champagne cork, you will be painfully aware of the pressure in a bottle of fizz. And that pressure inside—and outside—the bottle has caught the…
To Fight Coastal Erosion, Design a Bespoke Artificial Reef
It started in the Caribbean Sea. Jaime Ascencio, then a business development engineer working across Latin America, was eager to find sustainable ways to combat the coastal erosion that was eating away at…
Will Future Electric Vehicles Be Powered by Deep-Sea Metals?
Both expeditions will accumulate baseline environmental knowledge on the sorts of marine organisms that dwell on the seafloor, the composition and chemistry of backside sediments, and the move of underwater currents at…
The US Is Finally Trying to Unlock the Power of Wave Energy
This story initially appeared on Grist and is a part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At first look, waves have the makings of a super renewable vitality supply. They’re predictable, fixed, and…