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by Patrick GALEY PARIS, France (AFP) — There may be more plastic floating just beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean today than the estimated total weight of plastic waste dumped in it since 1950, new research showed Tuesday. The findings, based on analysis of samples of the three most common plastic materials and computer modelling, highlight the unseen scale of the pollution clogging the world’s second-largest ocean. Earth’s oceans contain an estimated 150 million […]
BORDEAUX, France (AFP) — 71-year-old Frenchman set sail across the Atlantic on Wednesday in a barrel-shaped orange capsule, hoping to reach the Caribbean within three months thanks to ocean currents alone. “The weather is great — I’ve got a swell of one meter and I’m moving at two or three kilometers an hour,” Jean-Jacques Savin told AFP by telephone after setting off from El Hierro in Spain’s Canary Islands. “For the time being my capsule […]
ALES, France (AFP) — In the coming weeks, 71-year-old navigator Jean-Jacques Savin will attempt to cross the Atlantic in a barrel, using only the ocean’s currents to carry him across.
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — When an endangered female North Atlantic right whale spends months, even years, disentangling itself from cast-off fishing nets, there’s not much energy left over for mating and nursing calves. Coping with such debris, along with ship collisions and other forms of human encroachment, have severely stymied recovery of the majestic sea mammals long after explosive harpoons and factory ships nearly wiped them out, according to a […]
DUBLIN, Ireland (AFP) — Ireland has ordered all schools to close Monday as the country braces for an “unprecedented storm” with the arrival of Ophelia, the largest hurricane ever recorded so far east in the Atlantic Ocean. “In response to the imminent Storm Ophelia, the Department of Education and Skills is now publicly informing all schools, colleges and other education institutions that they are to remain closed tomorrow, Monday 16 October,” the department said in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck north of Ascension Island in the mid-Atlantic early Monday, the US Geological Survey said, though there were no immediate reports of damage. The shallow quake struck at the equator north of the remote islands at 0429 GMT, with no people likely to have been affected by shaking, USGS said. The National Weather Service Tsunami Warning Center said a damaging tsunami was not expected. © 1994-2016 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Gaston became the third hurricane of the Atlantic season Thursday when it was upgraded from a tropical storm, the US-based National Hurricane Center said. Swirling in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean some 1,215 miles (1,955 kilometers) west of Cape Verde, Gaston appeared to pose no immediate threat to land. Data collected by the agency’s hurricane-tracking mission indicated maximum sustained winds at 75 miles per hour, with higher gusts, as […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Colin formed Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico, churning toward Florida’s west coast, where it is expected to cross before heading into the Atlantic, officials said. Packing sustained winds of 40 miles (65 kilometers) per hour, the storm was about 460 miles southwest of Tampa, Florida, moving northward at nine miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said.. “Some strengthening is forecast before Colin reaches the coast of […]
