Tag: Atlantic

  • Have Infographics Jumped The Shark? Episode 3

    Megan McArdle at the Atlantic piles on the Infographic debate, " issuing a plea to bloggers to help stop this plague in its track."

  • The Surprisingly Bold and Beautiful World of Sea Slugs (Slideshow)

    Slugs as we know them aren't the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning "naked gills"), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members

  • The Surprisingly Bold and Beautiful World of Sea Slugs

    On land, slugs are far from nature's most beautiful creatures--but underwater, the family of shell-less creatures known as nudibranchs come in bright neons, glowing pastels, and vibrant primary colors. The 3,000 different kinds of nudibranchs get their

  • Updated: A Universal Hurricane Frequency Function - Ready For Some Hot Climate Action?

    Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 -- 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data. A quadratic fit to the model is shown for

  • Bluefin Tuna: On the Verge of Collapse...Or Not?

    Bluefin tuna is on the verge of total collapse. Maybe. It depends on who you ask. We may have been talking about

  • Dirty for Swain - The Filthy Campaign for Clean Oceans (Video)

    Image credit: Dirty for Swain Dirty Campaigners Support 1000 Mile Swim through Toxic, Shark-Infested Waters Oiled-up women? Men bathing in sewage? This is a campaign that was just born for the internet. There's no doubt about it - Christopher Swain is a

  • George the Lobster is Free!

    A 20 pound lobster going by the name of George was saved this past Saturday, as PETA brought him out to the Atlantic and set him free. George had been living at City Crab Restaurant in

  • National Talk Like A Pirate Day Environmental Quiz

    We want to extend National Talk Like A Pirate Day just a few more days, especially since it is helping to spread the word about clean sailing and boating. The Sierra Club has put together a fun set of questions to not only get you in the

  • U.S. and WWF Push for Ban on Tuna Fishing

    In a belated attempt to (finally) stem the growing tide of aggressive overfishing, the U.S. is calling on the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) to enact a 3-5 year ban on bluefin tuna

  • Unraveling the Secrets of the Tuna's Migration Routes

    Once one of the great mysteries of the natural world, the bluefin tuna's migration pattern has finally been elucidated by the workings of an international team of scientists as part of the global 10-year Census of Marine Life. To reach their

  • Hurricanes Common even in Colder Times

    While global warming naysayers seem content to continue flouting the overwhelming scientific consensus in favor of this anthropogenic phenomenon, they seem to have gotten one point largely right: hurricanes didn't suddenly begin massing over the past

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