Marine scientists urge government to reassess oil spill response
ScienceDaily.com | 23 Apr 2012
On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, a national panel of researchers is urging the US federal government to reassess how it would respond to similar oil spills that might occur in the future.
 Atlantic Ocean | Accidents and Spills | Governance | Research

The submarine volcano of El Hierro Island continues its degassing
ScienceDaily.com | 23 Apr 2012
Researchers have found that the submarine volcano of El Hierro (Canary Islands) continues expelling gases, which are primarily carbon dioxide. No sulfur compounds were detected.
 Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seamount

New ecological model for deep-water oil spills
ScienceDaily.com | 23 Apr 2012
On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blowout, a national panel of researchers is providing new insight into what happened in the disaster, as well as a guide for how to deal with such events in the future, and why existing tools were inadequate to predict what lay before them.
 Atlantic Ocean | Accidents and Spills | Research

World Ocean Radio 168: Waste (radio)
World Ocean Observatory | 23 Apr 2012
Today, one of the most startling manifestations of waste is the vast accumulation of petroleum-plastic thought to be no longer useful enough to even be recycled. Our landfills and beaches are littered with plastic, a material designed to last forever yet used each day for products and packaging that have no value at the end of their short life cycle.
 Marine Debris

Iceland may raise cod quota to 200,000 tons
fishupdate.com | 23 Apr 2012
THERE are high hopes that Iceland will significantly increase its cod quota later this year following encouraging news on the fishery.
 Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries

Rare white killer whale caught on video
Telegraph | 23 Apr 2012
Researchers have recorded video footage in the Pacific of the only known all white male orca.
 Pacific Ocean | Marine Mammals | Research

US and UK to collaborate on 'floating' turbines
Guardian Unlimited | 23 Apr 2012
The UK and US will work together to develop "floating" wind turbines to harness more offshore wind power at a potentially lower cost, the government said on Monday. Before this week's clean-energy meeting of ministers from 23 countries in London, the government announced it will collaborate with the US in developing wind technology to generate power in deep waters that are currently off-limits to conventional turbines.
 Atlantic Ocean | Offshore Resources | Renewable Energy

A poignant reminder of the strengths and frailties of our species (blog)
Guardian Unlimited | 23 Apr 2012
In her final blog from the Southern Ocean, Helen Czerski visits the grave of Ernest Shackleton, and muses on the complex interactions between rock, air, ocean and life.
 Southern Ocean | Research