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Ship adrift in a storm prompts risky marine salvage operation
Feb 01, 2022A ship adrift in a storm off the coast of the Netherlands set in motion a dangerous marine salvage operation to save the ship from running aground.
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Antarctic iceberg 100 miles long melts into the south Atlantic Ocean
Jan 31, 2022A huge antarctic iceberg that broke free in 2017 has now floated north and completely melted near South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic. Scientists are studying how the giant influx of fresh water in a salt water environment is affecting local marine ecosystems there.
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Answers to listener questions about who’s on board
Jan 28, 2022A listener wrote in to ask about who’s on board the ships we see in the Astoria Anchorage in the river, and whether they can come ashore while they’re here in the U.S.
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More about how the Tonga volcano rang the Earth’s atmosphere like a bell
Jan 27, 2022Some followup on yesterday’s report where we discussed the Tonga volcanic eruption, and how in addition to creating tsunami waves in the water, created corresponding waves in the air.
Photo credit: Nick-D, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Atmospheric shock wave from Tonga matched tsunamis
Jan 26, 2022Another look at Tonga’s volcanic eruption, which not only caused tsunamis across the Pacific, but also sent huge airborne shockwaves through the atmosphere, traveling at about the same speed.
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Chinese New Year set to further slow global shipping
Jan 25, 2022It’s an annual event that the shipping industry prepares for: The cessation of activity in Chinese ports for about a month during the celebration of Chinese or Lunar New Year. This year with the pandemic still wreaking havoc on global markets, it could hardly come at a worse time.
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Ships come to the aid of Tonga
Jan 24, 2022For a small island nation like Tonga, ships are life savers in a disaster. In fact ships are lifesavers areound the world. Today we talk about how ships save the day when things go wrong.
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Man swept out to sea by Tonga tsunami lives
Jan 21, 2022A miraculous story of survival in the waters off Tonga, where a man was swept out to sea and lived to tell the sea, after 27 hours.
Photo: Landsat 8 (NASA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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What happened in Tonga?
Jan 20, 2022A closer look at what happened in Tonga, and how a volcanic eruption could be violent enough to send a tsunami worthy shockwave across the Pacific.
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The days are truly getting longer
Jan 18, 2022Let’s talk about something happy today, like…. the days are getting longer!
We’ll talk about what this means for brighter days ahead, and also a bit about why days are just getting longer, little by little, over the centuries.
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