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Mediterranean ports warn of overflowing storage yards in latest threat to supply chain
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Zacklabe: a site for great up-to-date visualizations regarding climate change, especially about Arctic and Antarctic
Zacklabe is a site, created by the climate scientist and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher, Zachary Labe, that has many great visualizations of data regarding climate...
Zacklabe is a site, created by the climate scientist and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher, Zachary Labe, that has many great visualizations of data regarding climate change, especially about the Arctic and Antarctic. It gathers its data from scientific observations, which are cited. You can access the visualizations following this link. Here are the visualizations, with many graphics for each entry.
Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability
Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration
Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness
Arctic Temperatures
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration
Climate Change Indicators
Climate model projections compared to observations in the Arctic
Global Sea Ice Extent and Concentration
Polar Climate Change FiguresNote: I briefly created a similar topic, but it was only about a single link from here. I deleted because I realized it's much better to create a thread about the site in general.
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Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, says Swedish foreign minister
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Danish military says a missile failure on a navy ship has triggered the closure of airspace and shipping lanes near a major shipping strait off the Danish coast
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A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing
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Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably
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How illegal fishing ships hide at sea
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Frontex: [EU] Border agency all at sea over shipwrecks
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Liberal visions and boring machines – The early history of the Channel Tunnel [the railway tunnel connecting the UK to France]
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Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela
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'Cliff-like' collapse of critical current system more likely than thought: study
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Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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Security crises from Red Sea to Black Sea pose a troubling question: How much has freedom of navigation been an anomaly?
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Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
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Norway defends deep-sea mining, says it may help to break China and Russia's rare earths stronghold
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Seaweed could save a billion people from famine after a nuclear war
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The hidden world of undersea cables
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Norway's Arctic deep sea mining plan will inevitably sink – industrialising the ocean floor in the middle of a climate crisis is not only reckless, it's cruel
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Norway's decision to permit exploratory deep-sea extraction of valuable minerals breaks a promise to the other nations on the Ocean Panel and to scientists
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UK and Denmark launch Viking Link underwater cable project – potential to transport enough electricity to power up to 2.5 million UK homes
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Red Sea attacks halt Tesla production at German plant
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How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now
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Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining
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Japan's 7.6-magnitude earthquake lifted land out of the sea, extending parts of its coastline by as much as 820 feet
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Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing
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Iran sends warship to Red Sea after US sinks Houthi boats
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Red Sea crisis: Houthi shipping attacks, trade and escalation
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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African ports may be overwhelmed by Red Sea reroutings
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IKEA has warned of product delays following rebel attacks on ships using the key Red Sea trade route
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US warns Yemen's Houthis to stop attacks on ships traveling through the Red Sea
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WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
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How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
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Norway's minority government and two opposition parties have agreed to allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic region
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The strange clouds of alien worlds
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The Pentagon says a US warship and multiple commercial ships have come under attack in the Red Sea
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The Philipines and China, fishing boats and naval ships, and artificial outposts in the contested South China Sea
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Norway's new gas field highlights tensions as COP28 climate talks open – new North Sea projects jar with push to phase out fossil fuels
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A hands-on sailing voyage by tall ship around the South Funen Archipelago offers an authentic glimpse of Danish maritime culture old and new
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Missiles fired from Yemen toward US warship that responded to attack on commercial tanker
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Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden ocean beneath the surface
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Simulating an ocean for 100 days
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Estonia-Finland pipeline explosion – what's the evidence that the damage was deliberate?
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Taking sea passage across the Atlantic—how?
I’m looking for realistic alternatives to flying across the Atlantic Ocean. I write this from an airport. I utterly despise flying. I hate it. I dislike literally every step of the process. I find...
I’m looking for realistic alternatives to flying across the Atlantic Ocean.
I write this from an airport. I utterly despise flying. I hate it. I dislike literally every step of the process. I find the security screenings degrading despite the supposed advantages of TSA Pre-Check and Global Entry. I find the inefficient, class-based boarding process to be a complete waste of time. I am offended by the ridiculous itemized charges for luggage. Flying wreaks havoc on my body—my legs do not fit in their tiny seats and my head does not rest comfortably against their poorly adjustable headrest. Breathing stale, recirculating air for eight hours next to a coughing madman is unpleasant. When landing, without fail, the change in air pressure annihilates my sinuses, causing me a non-trivial amount of pain. I do not like it.
These factors, primarily, as well as some preference for an environmentally friendly lifestyle, have led me to ask for ways to avoid using an airplane to cross the pond.
I would be willing to pay somewhat more and spend considerably more time in transit to avoid flying. If it’s to be a particularly slow voyage (more than a week, as I imagine is typical), I would need an internet connection to work my job; something that can sustain a connection to a virtual machine, or in an ideal world take video calls. I have no other particular needs.
I obviously cannot take a train. I am left with only two options as a non-working passenger (I think): a cruise, or a cargo ship. The former sounds expensive. I have heard of people doing the latter but at a glance all I see online is “service paused due to COVID-19.” Surely that cannot truly be the case in 2023, though?
Does anyone have experience doing this? Can you offer advice on where to get started, what the experience is like, and what pitfalls to avoid? I am honestly almost at a breaking point here. I am obligated to take several transatlantic flights in the next year and I really cannot bear to continue doing this. I am open to ideas even if not all my criteria can be met. I appreciate any comments.
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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Life on Europe's only open Schengen border with Russia – in the Barents Sea, Russia maintains cordial relations with NATO neighbours over fishing rights
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