epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Kelsey Oseid

TUSKING Male narwhals are sometimes observed crossing tusks with each other above the surface of the water; this behavior is known as “tusking.” In the past, this was believed to ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-01 | Author:Doug Macdougall [Macdougall, Doug]

eight THE NATIVES On March 4, 1874, the crew of Challenger said good-bye to the last Antarctic iceberg they would see on the voyage. They were en route to Australia ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-27 | Author:Doug Macdougall

eight THE NATIVES On March 4, 1874, the crew of Challenger said good-bye to the last Antarctic iceberg they would see on the voyage. They were en route to Australia ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Ian Urbina

11 WASTE AWAY You wouldn’t think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we’ll do it one day. That’s how negligent we are. —Ian Rankin, Blood Hunt For centuries, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2019-07-28 | Author:Jill Heinerth

The Pit 2000 ONE YEAR AFTER Wakulla I heard a phrase that I had never expected to hear: “Never dive again.” The physician’s words made my heart drop. “I have ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:Bill Streever

Through a network of old friends and colleagues, I contact Steve Porter. Like me, he was diving in oil fields by the time he was nineteen years old. Unlike me, ...

epub |eng | 2018-05-20 | Author:Joy McCann

Once we enter the convergence we may sight our first tabular icebergs setting out on their own voyages, caught in the thrall of the West Wind Drift having calved from ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2003-04-14 | Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]

The strange case of the bison-bull (1) In David Trump’s authoritative Archaeological Guide to Malta, most recently updated and extended in March 2000, the visitor to the Hypogeum is urged ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Tristan Gooley [Gooley, Tristan]

Wave diffraction through a narrow gap. A narrow gap gives the most dramatic demonstration of wave diffraction, but it’s actually happening whenever any waves pass obstacles. If you hide behind ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert Kunzig

Rosacea flaccida, a siphonophore that grows to about 10 feet long, lets down its tentacles to form a large “fishing net” . No one really knows what the right conditions ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Redmond O'Hanlon

SOMEONE TURNED the light on; Sean had turned the light on: “Up ye get, boys! Ye’ve had a whole eight hours! And the storm’s gone—there’s yer heavy swell up there ...

mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Brian Fagan

LIFE ALONG CHINA’S long, low-lying coastline has involved constant adjustment to changing sea levels ever since the end of the Ice Age. Many people call this a “muddy coast,” a ...

epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Brad Matsen [Matsen, Brad]

The harbor at Monaco (COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR) Monaco itself is less than a square mile of land, bordered on three sides by France and on the fourth by the ...