A team of researchers from Norway and Switzerland has put forward a proposal for ‘Solar Methanol Islands’ that convert atmospheric carbon dioxide to fuel. The islands would have to be clustered together to create large-scale facilities. If enough of these …

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE Remote Island Chain Has Few People — But Hundreds of Millions Of Pieces Of Plastic (NPR) When a marine biologist from Australia traveled to a remote …

The Pacific Ocean off the California coast is mixed up, and so are many of the animals that live there. The violet, thumbnail-size snails washing up here in Horseshoe Cove have never been seen this far north. By-the-wind sailors, a …

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE Stopping Climate Change Is Hopeless. Let’s Do It. (The New York Times) On Monday, the world’s leading climate scientists released a report on how to protect …