Can We Bring Back The Oceans Of The Past?
Think you’ve seen a healthy ocean in your lifetime? You probably haven’t. National Geographic's explorer-in-residence Dr. Enric Sala studies marine ecosystems to understand the past and present ocean,...
View ArticleFour Rowers Survive Boat Capsize In The Atlantic
Four men were attempting to set a world record by rowing across the Atlantic Ocean this weekend. Their plans thwarted when their boat capsized. Seventy-two days of journey culminated in hours and...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes With SPD's Bomb Unit
Investigators are trying to piece together this week's bombings at the Boston Marathon. What clues are they looking for? How are bombs detected and disarmed? Seattle Police Department explosives...
View ArticleResearch Cruise Investigates 'Lock Zone' Of Dangerous Offshore Fault
This week a research ship is retrieving dozens of seismometers that have spent the last year on the ocean floor off the Northwest coast. Earthquake scientists hope the data they're about to get will...
View ArticleBugs, Bill Nye And Flotsam
Sue Hubbell: Author, Beekeeper And Bug LoverSue Hubbell is the author of many books on entomology, including “A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them.” She wrote for The New Yorker, Smithsonian and Time....
View ArticleBath Toys, Nikes Wash Ashore; Oceanographer Worries Radiation Will Too
In 1990, a cargo container dropped 80,000 Nike sneakers overboard. The shoes washed ashore for the next decade.Two years later, in 1992, another container in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean...
View ArticleDeep Underground, Oceans Of Water May Be Trapped In A Crystal 'Sponge'
Science teachers may have to add a whole new layer to the water cycle.Scientists have discovered evidence of a vast reservoir of water hiding up to 400 miles beneath the surface.The discovery could...
View ArticleU.S. Offshore Wind Energy Area Would Nearly Double Under New Plan
A large swath of the Atlantic Ocean could soon be used to generate electricity, as a U.S. agency proposes opening more than 1,000 square miles of ocean to wind energy projects. The area is off the...
View ArticleCombating Algae One Dollar At A Time
Millions of dollars in new funding to help combat harmful algae in Oregon and throughout the country are just a presidential pen stroke away.Toxic algae blooms contributed to closing some of Oregon’s...
View ArticleWhat's Killing Clams? Solve This Low Tide Mystery
One of the lowest tides of the year this weekend revealed a "crime scene" at the beach at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle.
View ArticleHow Ocean Chemistry Threatens The NW Oyster Industry
NETARTS BAY, Ore. -- Mark Wiegardt steps slowly through knee-high water, pausing over some jagged lumps of brown-gray shells with a bent flat-head screwdriver.He picks up a clumps of oysters and rests...
View ArticleWarming Ocean May Be Triggering Mega Methane Leaks Off Northwest Coast
SEATTLE -- As the waters of the Pacific warm, methane that was trapped in crystalline form beneath the seabed is being released.
View Article7 Miles Beneath The Sea's Surface: Who Goes There?
A ship full of marine scientists is floating over the deepest part of the world: the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.
View ArticleOregon Scientists Lead Underwater Research
Last month Ed Dever helped to put four special, giant buoys off the coast of Oregon.“I like to think of them as floating laboratories,” said Dever, who is an Oceanography professor at Oregon State...
View ArticleJellyfish Boom As Little Fish Disappear In Puget Sound
Little fish are disappearing from much of Puget Sound, according to a new study.These are the fish that orcas and salmon depend on, and they’re being replaced by ballooning populations of jellyfish,...
View ArticlePuget Sound Salmon Losing, Jellyfish Winning
Puget Sound is going through a lot of changes. And a trend we reported on earlier this year has accelerated: Salmon are losing while jellyfish are winning.
View ArticleWeather Scientists Want Your Help To Understand 'The Blob'
Call it “The Blob.”It’s an unusually warm patch of water off the West Coast that has flummoxed climatologists.“It’s still rearing its ugly head,” said Nick Bond, Washington state climatologist and...
View ArticleListening To Whale Migration Reveals A Sea Of Noise Pollution, Too
Christopher Clark, who directs the bioacoustics research program at Cornell University, is among the world's best scientific listeners. His work has revealed how human-made noise is filling the ocean,...
View ArticleUnderwater Volcano Could Hold Secrets To Outerspace
David Hyde sits down with John Delaney, professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, to discuss what scientists are learning from a recent underwater volcano that erupted off the coast of...
View ArticleScientists' Drone Captures Stunning Pictures of Pacific Northwest Killer Whales
Killer whale biologists used a hexacopter drone last month to capture stunning, overhead photos of every single member of the endangered Puget Sound orca population.
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