Post-tsunami Thailand yields lessons for coastal construction
24 March 2005, CIESM News
According to researchers at John Hopkins University , inspections of Thai villages and ports stuck by the tsunami waves have uncovered some engineering lessons that might reduce casualties and destruction in the future...

Whale use 'sound map' to navigate
20 March 2005, The Scotsman
Scientists have revealed new findings that indicate that whales navigate hundreds of miles using a mental map of the sea floor based on sound. Whales also use their songs to communicate across thousands of miles of ocean...

Seaweeds can detoxify organic pollutants
18 March 2005, CIESM News
Researchers have discovered that marine seaweeds have a remarkable and previously unknown capacity to detoxify serious organic pollutants such as TNT or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and they may therefore be able to play an important role in protecting the ecological health of marine life...

Octopus arms a good model for robot designs
9 February 2005, National Geographic News
Octopuses have intrigued scientists for years; because they have both long-and-short term memory, they remember solutions to problems, and they can go on to solve the same or similar problems...

Research tip: Oranges
7 February 2005, AP Wire
Marine researchers studying ocean circulation patterns have come up with an environmentally friendly technique as reported by Associated Press. Wanting to discover if circulation patterns around a peninsula were effecting the migration of seaweed's reproductive cells...

Wax perfect material for modeling ocean floors
2 February 2005, CIESM News
Geophysicists at Cornell and Columbia University have found that wax is a perfect tool for modeling ocean floors. Using a tub of wax they have produced a predictive model of tectonic microplates...

Whales and hippos are first cousins
24 January 2005, CIESM News
A group of four-footed mammals that flourished worldwide for 40 million years and then died out in the ice ages is the missing link between the whale and its not so obvious nearest relative, the hippopotamus...

Sinking coastlines early indicators of large subduction quakes
20 January 2005, CIESM News
A new study concludes that slight sinking along nearby coastlines may precede by two to five years the actual rupture and subsequent earthquakes such as the one that generated the recent massive tsunami in South Asia...