Category Archives: oceans

Great Pacific Garbage Patch : World’s Biggest Landfill in the Pacific Ocean?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N. The patch runs over an indeterminate area, … Continue reading →

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Coldest Antarctic Water AT Ocean Bottom Decreasing for Decades

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Researchers have found a large reduction in the amount of the coldest deep ocean water, called Antarctic Bottom Water, all around the Southern Ocean using data collected from 1980 to 2011. These findings, in a study now online, will likely … Continue reading →

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World’s Biggest Wind Farm in the middle of the Irish Sea Opened

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

The world’s biggest offshore wind farm was officially opened  after record-fast construction in the middle of the Irish Sea. The 102 turbines of the two connected  farms cover an area of 73 square-kilometres . With a capacity of 367.2MW, the … Continue reading →

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A Lost World Deep Down in the Sea

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Deep down under the sea is another universe of sheer blackness hidden from the sun. Yet a busy blackness in some cases. Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the … Continue reading →

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