Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
July 17, 2011 10:05 pm

Climate Scientists Ask For Help Fighting Somali Pirates

thebchuckster writes "Scientists are seeking the help of the Australian and US navies to repel Somali pirates who are threatening one of the world's key climate monitoring programs. They hope to deploy about 20 robotic instruments in a no-go area north of Mauritius. The instruments, which record ocean heat and salinity patterns, are programmed to submerge and eventually resurface to upload their data to satellites"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ctKJK1W_VEk/Climate-Scientists-Ask-For-Help-Fighting-Somali-Pirates

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Slashdot

Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..

More About this Source Visit Slashdot