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Safe Habitat For North Atlantic Right Whales Will Expand

January 28, 2016 By Marlene R. Litten

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After one year of waiting, it was decided that the safe habitat for North Atlantic right whales will expand in order to assure the survival of the endangered species. The expanded habitat was taken under consideration by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the decision was taken as of January 27th, 2016.

The critically endangered whales will benefit from a major widening of their protected areas, to live, feed, breed, and raise their young.

Back in 1994, officials called for the protection of the North Atlantic right whales after their numbers were brought down to a worrying 300 left. This was due mainly to commercial fishing, and the unfortunate habits of the marine mammals themselves. Right whales are very docile, slow swimmers who have a habit of travelling near the coasts and close to the surface of the water. That made them especially vulnerable to whalers.

Over time, their population diminished, so NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service designated their first protected habitat. They were offered an area of almost 3,000 square nautical miles, including a portion of Cape Cod Bay, Stellwagen Bank, the Great South Channel, coastal Georgia and the eastern shoreline of Florida.

Only 520 right whales alive today

However, today’s human activities and highly industrialized coastlines have hindered the species’ recovery. Be it ship strikes or entanglements with fishing gear, the right whales have not seen as big of an improvement as hoped. In fact, the numbers round up at just 520 right whales around the waters after more than twenty years worth of efforts and protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Thus, the call has been made for an expansion of their protected areas, one that was recently approved.

From 3,000 nautical mi2 to 21,000 nautical mi2

NOAA officially announced that the critical habitat for the North Atlantic right whales will be expanded to over 21,000 square nautical miles. The new area will include regions in the Gulf of Maine up to the Canadian border. According to Eileen Sobeck from NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service, they have had two decades worth of information since the first habitat was set. Now, they have a better understanding of the species and believe that an expansion is required for their survival.

Sobeck claimed that they have indeed made progress. The species are seeing a very slow recovery, but there is need for additional effort to ensure their survival. They “have a long way to get to complete recovery”.

As stated by Charles “Stormy” Mayo from the Center for Coastal Studies, it’s difficult to put an animal in one tiny box. They don’t stay in one place, and whales in particular are known to travel thousands of miles in just one year of their life. The adjustment properly recognizes their needs and their wide use of their environment.

However, NOAA underlines the fact that the newly designated area will not truly affect future offshore projects. But, they will certainly go under more scrutiny, and it will allow government officials to get involved in mitigating future impacts with the endangered species. Should something go wrong, officials will be in their right to act on the side of the whales.

The decision will go into effect at the end of next month, but current operations will not be impacted by the change. It’s not a refuge for the North Atlantic right whales, but merely an area where their survival can be aided in case of trouble.

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Filed Under: Science Tagged With: atlantic right whales, critical habitat, Endangered Species Act, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, protected area, protected area expanded, right whale, right whales critical habitat

NOAA: El-Nino Finally Arrives, May Not Affect California Droughts

March 6, 2015 By Marlene R. Litten

El Nino of 2015

According to NOAA Climate Expert, the long-awaited El-Nino has arrived.

Yesterday, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has released an EL-Nino Advisory report.

El-Nino refers to the cycle of cold and hot temperature that is measured with surface temperature of tropical and eastern Pacific Ocean Sea.

However, this time El-Nino would not leave a considerable impact on global weather and weather patterns. Climate Experts reported that El-Nino is too weak to affect the upcoming four consecutive droughts of California.

Nonetheless, it would probably influence a few regions of the Northern Hemisphere.  This year, it is expected to transform the usual weather conditions into a bit wetter one.

Mike Halpert, director of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, declares the arrival of El Nino. He states that all the latest observation of western and central equatorial Pacific Ocean confirms that El-Nino is finally here.  Numerous climate prediction models indicate that El-Nino will persist till summer season.

A group of climate predictor notifies that there are 50 to 60 percent chances that the condition will continue throughout summer.

El-Nino is significant because it is directly connected with chances of weather changes.  Even though, El-Nino occurs all around the globe, but its affects are stronger in regions near the tropics.

Normally, fishermen of Peru observe El-Nino before the rest of the world.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: California Drought, Climate Prediction Center, El Niño, EL-Nino Advisory report, NOAA, Northern hemisphere, Peru

Space X releases An Incredible 3D Animation Launch Video of Falcon Heavy Rocket

January 28, 2015 By Cliff Jenkins Scott

Falcon Heavy rocket

On Tuesday, Space X releases a new 3D animated video displaying the launch of Falcon Heavy rocket.

Falcon Heavy is the world’s most powerful rocket as it can effortlessly lift into orbit with a payload of 53 metric tons. The payload is nearly double to the load of any other ordinary rocket.

A few months ago, Space X has signed an agreement with NASA in order to use its pad 39 A. The space firm intends to use the pad for the launch of manned Dragon V2 and Falcon Heavy.

Space X was working on the development of the Falcon Heavy since last several years.   Finally, the company is all set to launch the rocket till the end of 2015.

The space transport service launched a test flight of the rocket on 10 January at 9:47AM GMT from Cape Canaveral. Unfortunately, the test flight ended with a “rapid unexpected disassembly”.  Hence, Space X is currently working on the next run of the rocket.

However, the latest video shows the launch of all three Falcon Heavy rockets from Kennedy Space Center.

Additionally, Space X has planned to send a space weather monitoring satellite into Orbit through Falcon 9.  The chief objective of the mission is to help NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The flight is scheduled for the 8th of February 2015.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Caught On Video, Kennedy Space Center, launch date, nasa, NOAA, Space X, Video

NASA and NOAA Confirm: 2014 Hottest Year on the Record

January 19, 2015 By Carol Harper

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The latest data of NASA and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration marked 2014 as the hottest year of the history. Earlier, weather agencies of different countries calculated 2014 as the hottest year on the record.

In 2014, numerous regions of the Western US experienced massive waves of heat and droughts. A few state of the United States such as Nevada and Alaska faced the hottest weather. Meanwhile, Arctic ice sheets and glaciers melted to a large extent and touched the northern areas of Canada and Siberia.

As per the reports of NOAA, the average temperature of 2014 was 58.24 degrees Fahrenheit (14.58 Celsius). The recorded temperature is approximately 1.24 degree greater than the average temperature of 20th century

Thus far, experts have observed 10 warmest years in the history since 2000.  Ascend in carbon emission and other human activities are responsible for such an increase in planet’s atmosphere.  However, scientists still believe that phenomena like El Nio or La Nina would probably cause more instability in average temperature in the future. These two phenomena have played an integral part in the trend of the climate change of the last two decades.

John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA discussed that it’s time for government agency to re-analyze the entire system of Earth.  It will help scientists to comprehend the role and effect of human actions on climate change.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Earth, hottest year, nasa, National Oceanic Atmosphere Administration, NOAA, warmest year

2014: The Hottest Year On Record

January 17, 2015 By Carol Harper

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Planet Earth set an unpropitious record last year as worldwide temperatures rose to the most elevated level since advanced estimations started, researchers said Friday in a report that increased worries about humankind’s rising toll on the natural systems that maintain life.

The year 2014 was pronounced the hottest year in a joint declaration by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, based on discrete examinations of climate records dating back to 1880, when Rutherford B. Hayes occupied the White House.

Determined to a limited extent by consistently warming seas, average temperatures edged past the former records set in 2005 and 2010. The 10 hottest years in contemporary times have all come since 1997, NASA researchers said.

“This is the most recent in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades,” said Gavin Schmidt, chief of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. While variations are conceivable in any given year in a framework as clamorous as climate, Schmidt said, “the long haul patterns are attributable to drivers of environmental change that at this moment are ruled by human emanations of greenhouse gasses.”

The dismal breakthrough was recorded in a year in which expansive parts of the American West heated under epic dry spells and heat waves, and glaciers and Arctic ice sheets proceeded with a decades-long retreat. Significant dry seasons debilitated drinking-water supplies crosswise expansive swaths of Brazil and Australia, and melting Arctic tundra opened up unlimited sinkholes in parts of Siberia and northern Canada.

In one of the uncommon exemptions to the warming pattern, 2014 was cooler than average in the eastern United States, as an unordinary plunge in the Jet Stream sent waves of Arctic air plunging southward. Eastern US states were among the coolest zones of the world, contrasted with recurring temperature standards.

However, while Americans were shuddering, the other parts of the world experienced record warmth in 7 of 12 months in 2014 — including December — a NOAA examination found.

Most shocking about the new record was the fact that it showed up in a year that did not witness an El Niño, the warm-weather trend connected with abnormally high sea temperatures in the east-central Pacific, NOAA and NASA researchers said.

“This is the first year since 1997 that the record hottest year was not an El Niño year at the start of the year, as the last three have been,” Schmidt said.

The information inspected by the US agencies affirmed that a lot of 2014’s warming was determined by the seas, the planet’s huge depository of heat. Sea temperatures were more than 1 degree above average, arriving at the most elevated levels ever recorded, NOAA said. Land temperatures weren’t fairly record-setting, yet at the same time positioned 4th-hottest since the beginning of the data set in 1880. California, a lot of Europe, including the United Kingdom, and parts of Australia all encountered their hottest years.

Climate researchers said the streak of hot years was additional proof of human-prompted warming created by the upsurge of greenhouse gasses in the environment. While the Earth’s atmosphere has warmed and cooled all through history, the late warming associates with stridently climbing levels of heat-trapping CO2 in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers say.

“The temperature record is yet another block in the huge fence of proof that the atmosphere is warming because of human activity,” said Simon Donner, associate professor of climatology at the University of British Columbia. “Of the 20 hottest years in recorded history, 19 happened in the previous two decades. Our whole thought of ‘normal’ is evolving.”

The broadly predicted finding dispirited — however did not completely disperse — an insight that the rate of warming has reduced since 1990s. A few researchers noted that 2014 was not a victory, statistically talking. The year surpassed the next runners-up by just a couple of hundredths of a Celsius degree, avearged over the globe. Some also noted that climbing temperatures have not kept pace with computer models that anticipated much quicker warming, given the 40% rise in carbon dioxide levels in the environemnt since the start of the industrial revolution.

“With 2014 basically tied with 2005 and 2010 for hottest year, this suggests that there has been basically no trend in warming over the previous decade,” said Judith Curry, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “This “almost” record year does not help the rising discrepancy between the atmosphere model projections and the surface temperature observations.”

However, other researchers said the spate of record-setting years must put to rest the idea of a global warming “pause.”

“Seen in setting, the record 2014 temperatures underscore the verifiable reality that we are seeing, before our eyes, the impacts of human-caused environmental change,” said Michael Mann, a professor of meteorology at Penn State University. “It is incredibly doubtful that we would be seeing a record year — amid a record warm decade, amid a multidecadal period of warmth that seems to be unrivaled over at least the previous thousand years — if it were not for the climbing levels of planet-warming gasses created by fossil fuel burning.”

The joint declaration by NOAA and NASA followed  a vigilant, joint effort in which specialists closley compared analyses. Last year, NASA and NOAA also cooperated on an examination of 2013, which ranks within the top 10 hottest years on record.

The new findings are also steady with a previous, preliminary investigation by the Japan Meteorological Agency, which declared 2014 the hottest year in its records, which retreat to 1891. Another examination based on satellite temperature recordings of the lower atmosphere or “troposphere,” led at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, found that 2014 was only the 3rd-warmest year for this part of the planet. Still another leading agency that keeps temperature records, Britain’s Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research, has not yet released its 2014 results.

 

Though, the joint NASA and NOAA declaration will likely carry considerable force in a year in which world leaders will gather in Paris to negotiate a new global agreement to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry seized on the report in calling for “ambitious, concrete action” to address the causing of climate change.

“This report is just another sound in a steady drumbeat that is growing increasingly more urgent,” Kerry said in a statement. “So the question isn’t the science. The question isn’t the warning signs. The question is when and how the world will respond.”

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: 2014 hottest year, australia, Brazil, Earth, El Niño, Gavin Schmidt, nasa, New York City, NOAA, northern Canada, Rutherford B. Hayes, Siberia

A New Hope Emerges For Killer Whales

January 7, 2015 By Denise Ehrlich

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New hope for killer whales arises as an infant orca was seen in the Pacific Ocean’s bay known as Puget Sound on the 30th December. This strange finding was made by one of the Center for Whale Researches top researchers, Dr. Ken Balcomb. Presently the newborn orca swims off the shore of Washington state. Thought to be older than a week now, this infant is a new hope in over 2-years. Sightings like this are uncommon. As per NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), around 35% to 45% of infant orcas lose their life before the age of one.

In the start of December J-32, a 19-year-old pregnant female whale, died around the Strait of Georgia. Researchers, including Ken Balcomb, drew her on shore. A necropsy on J-32 was conducted. The results demonstrated that the whale had miscarried. This set off a bacterial contamination which brought about the passing of J-32. Wild life researcher Brad Hanson with the NOAA said that “We lost lots of reproductive potential,” and “The loss of J-32 was an alarming setback.”

The name of the infant orca is J-50 and its mom is not known. Ken Balcomb said that two possible nominees are J-16 and J-36. J-16 is a 43-year-old female. She had three calves that survived and J-50 can be her calf. J-36 is the other contender for being the mother of J-50. She is a juvenile female and this could be one of her first calves. J-50’s dorsal fin and back have signs that researcher said it could propose an amazing reality: its delivery was helped by another whale. J-50 is likewise the 78th orca of the populace on the shoreline of Washington state and Canada.

Killer whale groups are recognized all over the globe. In the United States and Canada this particular group of killer whales is seen as a threatened species. As per Brad Hanson, a wildlife scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a critical part of the issue that prompted this result for the killer whale group is the taken for hostage showcase amid the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Over a large portion of the populace (around 40 killer whales) was taken from their natural habitat. In the 1990s the populace expanded to nearly 100 whales. A turn down of 20% was enlisted in the early 2000s. United States acted by marked the group as threatened in 2005.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Dr. Ken Balcomb, infant orca whale, J-16, J-32, J-50, Killer whales, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, New hope, NOAA, Puget Sound

Researchers Say, Rise In Sea Temperatures May Cause Coral Killings Worldwide

December 23, 2014 By June Harris

Rising-ocean-temperatures-killing-corals

Researchers are warning that climbing sea temperatures may slaughter corals all over the globe. Global warming is to be rebuked for the climbing sea temperatures and further changes could put the world’s corals in threat.

Marine specialists declare that an El Niño climate trend has been rising in the recent months, elevating sea temperatures, which is not appropriate for coral reefs. Coral blanching has already happened in numerous locales, which may halt corals in the nearing decades. Coral blanching results from the loss of algae that creates color in the corals. The loss of the algae then causes the coral to look white in shade and certainly fallout in its death.

Researchers uncover that the most horrible coral blanching recorded in history happened amid 1998. Specialists uncover that global warming joined with an El Niño sensation caused ocean temperature to rise, which brought about the obliteration of around 15% of the world’s coral.

Though, researchers assert that 2014 is nastiest than 1998 and average temperature rise this year is higher than 1998. Researchers have likewise anticipated that a mellow El Niño will happen one year from now, which is bad news for world corals. Some coral reef specialists accept that the following 6 to 12 months will have comparable or more awful impact on corals when contrasted with 1997 and 1998.

Dr. Mark Eaking at the University of Miami, also the facilitator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch system, asserts that a mellow En Nino in 2015 may bring about coral blanching to proceed till 2016. Though, rising sea temperature because of global warmiung is a primary cause for coral blanching.

“Regardless of the fact that there’s truly not an enormous El Niño, we’re seeing these patterns of serious blanching. So what’s going on is, as worldwide temperatures rise and particularly as the sea warms through the increase of CO2 and other heat trapping gasses in the climate, its warming the sea with the goal that it doesn’t take as large an El Niño to have the same impact on water temperatures,” says Dr. Eakin.

Specialists propose that significant coral blanching is happening in Marshall Islands, Kiribati, north-western Hawaiian Islands, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.

Researchers recommend that recuperation from coral fading is plausible however it can take a few years. Though, sea temperature is climbing at a steady pace, which is not permitting the corals to recoup by any means.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: 1998, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, Coral blanching, Coral Reefs, Dr. Mark Eaking, El Niño climate design, Global warming, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, NOAA, north-western Hawaiian Islands, Rising sea temperatures

New Coral Species Discovered in Californian Coast

November 7, 2014 By Denise Ehrlich

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Recently, researchers and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) discovered a new species of deep-sea coral off the Northern California coast.

On Wednesday, NOAA announced that a research team using small submersibles discovered the coral near national marine sanctuaries off the coast of Sonoma County in September.

The coral (genus Leptogorgia) was found about 600 feet deep in underwater canyons close to the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries.

“Studying these life forms helps determine the ecological importance of deep sea communities and the threats they face,” Farallones sanctuary’s manager said.

The scientists revealed that during research we also found a “highly unusual” nursery area for catsharks and skates.

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: 600 feet, California coast, coral species, Gulf of Farallones, Leptogorgia, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Sonoma County

Drone Captured Marvelous Footage of Orca Whales

October 19, 2014 By June Harris

Drone-captured-Orca-whales-images-Video

Thanks to the NOAA’s Fisheries and the Vancouver Aquarium researchers who captured the stunning images and video of Orca whales who were swimming and playing. The researchers have also witnessed the death of two orca whales in the region.

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is the government agency, which studies the conditions of the atmosphere and oceans told, “researchers has used a drone to study orca whales in the region”. In the entire history, it was the first time when researchers flew a drone (custom-built hexacopter) in order to study orcas. A high-resolution camera was fitted inside the drone in order to capture images and video of the species of whale. The drone flew into the region of Johnstone Strait off British Columbia.

The researchers had kept the hexacopter at a distance of 100 feet from the orcas, so that it would not agitate the orcas, still the camera photographed detailed images of the killer orca whales. The researchers believed that these images would eventually help them in better understanding the behavior and health of the whales.

The images and video captured by the hexacopter, would not just provide the glance of orca’s life, but these will also help us in order to know whether the killer whales are doing well or whether they are getting sufficient food, researchers stated.

The orca whales depend on Chinook Salmon, endangered species, for their food and the deficiency of Chinook Salmon could affect the population of the orca whales. While observing, we found that an orca whale was in a poor condition and went under the water and never resurfaced. The researchers believed that the orca whale was dead.

Lance Barrett-Lennard, lead researcher of Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Research Program, stated that, “Another orca’s death is still a mystery for researchers. It has not been determined yet if it was sick or injured.”

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Chinook Salmon, Drone, Hexacopter, Killer whales, Lance Barrett-Lennard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Orca Whales

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