June 9, 2020 By Andrew E. Kramer The New York Times
A diesel spill has released about half as much petroleum into the environment as the Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska. The fuel is flowing toward the Arctic Ocean.
June 5, 2020 By Eric Roston Bloomberg
The ocean’s ability to absorb industrial CO₂ stopped keeping pace with emissions in the 1990s. Here’s what may have happened.
June 4, 2020 By Isabelle Khurshudyan The Washington Post
A major oil spill in Siberia has prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to declare a state of emergency in an environmentally sensitive Arctic region after publicly scolding local authorities for what he said was a botched response.
June 2, 2020 By Alejandra Borunda National Geographic
When scientist Wen Jun Cai and his colleagues boated across the pea-soup-like waters of the upper Chesapeake Bay in the summer of 2016, water sampling kits and pH sensors in hand, they didn’t expect to find chemical magic at play.
May 31, 2020 By Lynda Mapes Seattle Times
The coronavirus pandemic has upended and refocused orca field research in Northwest waters this season. Some scientists are beached. Others are investigating the effect on endangered southern resident orcas of suddenly much quieter home waters in the Salish Sea, the transboundary waters between the United States and Canada including Puget Sound.