In Pic :This undated handout photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic. Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured. The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, two new […]
Not many people can say they have seen a translucent sea creature up close and personal. In fact, it is a rarity even among fishermen. The one who pulled this jellyfish-like creature to the surface off the coast of the Karikari Peninsula in New Zealand was fisherman Stewart Fraser. “I just kept on watching it thinking ‘what is this thing?’ It was the size of a coke can and just […]
In 1913, a man named Richard Platz threw a bottle into the sea carrying a message that would later be found and presented to his granddaughter last Tuesday … 101 years later.Angela Erdmann, 62, never met her grandfather, Platz, as he died before she was born. But receiving the bottle on Tuesday was an extraordinary moment for her. The bottle was found last month by fisherman Konrad Fischer off the […]
