Visit to the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch August 31, 2009 | SEAPLEX "A thousand miles off California, the North Pacific Ocean Gyre contains one... de Rothschild and his Plastic Boat March 15, 2009 | National Geographic David de Rothschild is planning to set sail on his new boat,... Atlantic Ocean Garbage Patch March 3, 2010 | BBC News You've heard about the garbage patch the size of Texas floating in... Greenland Sharks July 29, 2008 | Discovery Channel Some interesting facts about sharks of the North Atlantic (Greenland Shark) and... Video: Underwater Volcano Eruption June 20, 2008 | Discovery News See video footage of a volcano erupting underwater! The volcano is located... NOAA’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center September 28, 2007 | NOAA Here's the place to go if you want to check for a... Pacific Tsunami Threat from Alaska Earthquake September 30, 2009 | Durham University The potential for a huge Pacific Ocean tsunami on the West Coast... Sea Surface Temperature Maps August 28, 2007 | NOAA Sea surface temperatures are important determinants of hurricane formation and the data... British Man Swims at North Pole July 18, 2007 | Red Orbit / AP A British man swam 1/2 mile in 20 minutes at the North... Measuring North Pole Ice Thickness March 16, 2009 | CNN A video about the three British explorers who are trekking to the... Garbage in the Ocean March 16, 2009 | Reuters Thousands of people volunteered last September to retrieve trash from the ocean... El Nino and Pacific Typhoons October 8, 2009 | CNN An article on the CNN website explores the relationship between El Nino... Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake Near Fiji Islands December 9, 2007 | USGS Earthquake Hazards Program A magnitude 7.8 earthquake occured in the southwestern Pacific Ocean near the... Major Earthquakes in the Pacific October 7, 2009 | CNN CNN has an article about today's major earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean.... Google Considers a Trans-Pacific Undersea Cable September 24, 2007 | Wall STreet Journal Google is in discussions with other potential partners about laying a trans-Pacific... Natural Gas and Oil in North Carolina January 23, 2010 | North Carolina Geological Survey The North Carolina Geological Survey has published Information Circular 36: Natural... Earthquake and Tsunami: American Samoa Region September 29, 2009 | USGS Earthquake Hazards Program USGS reports that a 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurred along a plate boundary... Endeavor Liftoff Arc: 6-Minute Photo February 17, 2010 | EPOD This is a photo taken at Jetty Park in Port Canaveral, FL,... New Sea Creatures Discovered October 25, 2008 | ABC News Scientists have found hundreds of previously unknown species of sea life in... Glory Over the Pacific May 30, 2008 | NASA Earth Observatory A "glory" is an atmospheric phenomenon with the same colors as a... |