Kahi Kai News provides you with all the up to date information you need to better understand, enjoy and protect our marine environment. Here you can browse our archives for marine related news from all over the world, find interesting essays covering a broad range of marine related topics and also read selected logbook entries from our members.
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News 20 Aug 2010. Mediterranean most threatened sea on Earth. The Mediterranean Sea's exquisitely rich mix of flora and fauna is more threatened than marine life anywhere else on Earth, according to a landmark scientific survey that has been... Image credit: Eric Roettinger
News 16 Aug 2010. The Salp: Most Efficient Filter-Feeder in the Deep. What if trains, planes and automobiles all were powered simply by the air through which they move? What if their exhaust and by-products helped the environment? Such an energy-... Image credit: Kelly Sutherland and Larry Madin, WHOI
Logbook 16 Jul 2010. CreatureCast- Jellyfish Theater. In the vast ocean, without walls and far from the floor, jellyfish can become drifting islands of activity. Creatures from far and wide will congregate on them to act out the ups... Image credit: Sophia Tintori
News 15 Jul 2010. Australian scientists discover creatures of the deep. Scientists from the Australia have used high-tech equipment to capture underwater creatures at depths not documented from before. Using deep-sea cameras and instrument platforms... Image credit: Justin Marshall
News 15 Jul 2010. Marine scientists return with rare creatures from the deep. Scientists have just returned from a voyage with samples of rare animals and more than 10 possible new species in a trip which they say has revolutionised their thinking about deep... Image credit: David Shale
Article 5 Jul 2010. Gräsö . The island Gräsö lies in the archipelago just outside Öregrund in the northern parts of Roslagen on the Swedish east coast. This is in the transition zone between the Gulf of... Image credit: Mattias Ormestad
Logbook 3 Jul 2010. Seasick - by Alanna Mitchell wins Grantham Prize. "Seasick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth" by Alanna Mitchell, published in the US by the University of Chicago Press, has won the 2010 Grantham Prize for... Image credit: Eric Roettinger
Logbook 22 Jun 2010. One of the Indian Ocean's hidden treasures. Most of Saint Brandon's sandy islands are submerged. They form a crescent-shape with an extensive coral reef and algal ridge covering around 190 km². On the windward (west) side... Image credit: Aldine Amiel
News 22 Aug 2009. Creature Cast - The unexpected world of animals. Creature Cast is a collaborative blog recently launched by evolutionary biologist Casey Dunn and his students at Brown University. Their idea is to take a narrative approach to... Image credit: Sophia Tintori
Logbook 10 Nov 2009. First trip with Tara. The Kahi Kai team has had the privilege to be involved in development of the imaging platform of the Tara Oceans Expedition. On a recent trip with Tara between Naples (Italy) and... Image credit: Mattias Ormestad
Logbook 12 May 2009. Waikiki aquarium. Me and Eric Roettinger have recently spent a couple of days photographing the amazing animals in Waikiki Aquarium. We are currently in the process of post processing of the photos,... Image credit: Mattias Ormestad
Logbook 14 Apr 2010. Tara on her way to Saint Brandon (Mauritius). Tara has left Maldives Islands saturday, april 10th and is currently on her way to Saint Brandon (Republic of Mauritius), an island nation off the coast of the African continent in... Image credit: Aldine Amiel
