Explore Our Planet

March 2000: Iceberg B15 - former part of the Ross Sea Shelf - started its counter-clock-wise journey around Antarctica. Earlier this month subpart B15-K, 54 km long and 5 km wide, collided with Ekstrom Ice Shelf. The german Neumayer Station located nearby reco ...>>

Imagine your home or your place of employment get flooded. Not only some days a year, but every day of the year. Will you sell your car and buy a boat to travel to work? What else will happen? Whole cities relocate from basement to attic, public transport regu ...>>

Ongoing global climate change causes changes in the species composition of marine ecosystems, especially in shallow coastal oceans. During evolution, animals have specialised on environmental conditions and are often very limited in their tolerance to enviro ...>>

Since 1873 the temperature of the North Sea is measured, but the length of current warm period is unique. With an average of 0.13°C every year temperature rises, 1.7 degree since 1993. Fishes and mussels adapt to changed conditions and move from Bay of Bi ...>>

Bruce Lieberman, Union Staff writer, reports about acidification of the oceans caused by human activities in the SignOnSanDiego.com science section. Though using only 15% total capacity today most carbon dioxide has been absorbed from the upper oceans. The ...>>

A huge oil slick caused by Israeli bombing has already polluted 100km of the Lebanese coast, may reach beaches in Turkey, Cyprus and Greece. Picture taken by Daily Terra, 2006-08-01. ...>>

Today latimes.com starts a five parts interactive Flash presentation about the fundamental changes of the oceans. During his 5 years exploration Kenneth R. Weiss documented the impact of human civilisation like overfishing and nutrients influx. First part ...>>

NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, US) report about changes in the chemistry of the oceans when they absorb more and more CO2. Corals and other marine organisms that produce calcium carbonate skeletal structures will suffer when the oceans b ...>>

To measure the average sea level is a challenge for scientists. The surface changes every day and second due to waves, temperature, salinity, wind and gravity forced by the moon and the sun. Regional effects like melting glaciers make it even more complicat ...>>