Page 4 - Ocean

Convention on the Law of the Sea more relevant than ever: UN chief Guterres

As the ocean is "in dire straits," the landmark UN Convention on the Law of the Sea adopted 40 years ago is more relevant than ever, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said

IIT Madras generates power from sea waves, aims to go commercial by 2024

Innovation may help India achieve climate change-related goal of generating 500 Gw of renewable energy by 2030

COP15 goals to halt biodiversity decline but can downgrade ocean action

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) or COP15 is the long-awaited conference to finally set the new post-Aichi goals to halt and reverse global biodiversity decline

Nord Stream explosions show the deep sea is now a zone of conflict

The series of pipeline explosions have yet to be definitively proved as sabotage or attributed to any nation, but most analysts believe that the likely culprit is Russia.

Tropical Storm Fiona, 6th named storm of season, forms in Atlantic Ocean

Tropical Storm Fiona, the season's sixth named storm, formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday evening and forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm warnings for several islands. Tropical Storm Fiona was located about 650 miles (1,046 kilometers) east of the Leeward Islands, and tropical storm watches were issued for Saba and St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, and Anguilla, forecasters said. Interests in the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico should monitor the progress of this system," the agency said. At 11 pm EDT, the depression was moving at 16 mph (26 kph) with maximum sustained winds of about 50 mph (85 kph), forecasters said. On the forecast track, the center of the system is forecast to move through the Leeward Islands on Friday or Friday night and be near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this weekend," the hurricane center advisory said.

Artificially cooling water to decrease hurricanes ineffective, finds study

The scientists combined air-sea interaction theories with a highly advanced computer model of the atmosphere

Explained: NASA postpones Artemis 1 launch; here's what we know so far

Artemis 1 was supposed to orbit the moon, deploy some satellites, and settle into the orbit. It was meant to test SLS rocket and the Orion crew capsule

Samudrayaan: India's first mission to send humans 6,000 metre deep in ocean

Samudrayaan Mission is aimed to develop a self-propelled manned submersible which will allow scientific personnel to observe and understand unexplored deep-sea areas by direct interventions.

UN calls for implementing faster steps to secure critical ocean health

A United Nations conference warned Friday that measures needed to protect the world's oceans are lagging and urged countries to accelerate their implementation

'Save our Ocean, Protect our Future': UN Ocean Conference begins Monday

United Nations Ocean Conference is set to take place in Lisbon, Portugal from June 27-July 1 and will be co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal

Envoy urges ASEAN, Australia, India to work for ocean health, smart ports

Speaking at the inaugural session, Australia's High Commissioner to India Barry O'Farrell also stressed the need to co-operate in the Indo-Pacific amid the rising multi-polar world scenario

Ocean resources key to India's future economy, says Jitendra Singh

He said India has emerged as one of the frontline nations in marine scientific research

A sea of problems

Before the era of industrialisation, the oceans actually released more carbon into the atmosphere than they took in

Cabinet approves continuation of ocean research scheme O-SMART for 5 years

The scheme encompasses seven sub-schemes

Jitendra Singh launches India's unique manned ocean mission Samudrayan

Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday launched India's first manned ocean mission at Chennai.

India's first manned ocean mission 'Samudrayan' launched

India's first manned ocean mission 'Samudrayan' was launched here on Friday by Union Minister Jitendra Singh and with this the nation joined an elite club of nations having such underwater vehicles for carrying out subsea activities. The nation has made huge progress in science and technology and when an Indian goes up into space as part of the Gaganyaan programme, another would dive deep into the ocean, the Minister said. The Minister tweeted,"Launched India's First Manned Ocean Mission #Samudrayan at #Chennai. India joins elite club of select nations USA, Russia, Japan,France & China having such underwater vehicles.A new chapter opens to explore ocean resources for drinking water, clean energy & blue economy." In his launch address at the National Institute of Ocean Technology here, Singh said the mission does not only increase the scientific capacity but also gives the nation a sense of esteem that "we are doing something which is no less than any other country of the ...

Govt okays proposal to roll out project to explore deep ocean for resources

The cost of the mission has been estimated at Rs 4,077 crore over a five-year period and will be implemented in phases

Govt okays proposal to roll out project to explore deep ocean for resources

The proposal for launching the "deep sea mission" came from the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

China successfully launches new ocean observation satellite Haiyang-2D

The new ocean-monitoring satellite is a part of its effort to build an all-weather and round-the-clock dynamic ocean environment monitoring system

Navy outlines plan to quadruple India's blue economy by the year 2050

Ocean-based trade currently contributes about 4 per cent of India's Gross Domestic Product