In Great Britain and other European countries, companies are preparing to use the energy of ocean waves and tides to produce electricity. The UK is hoping to produce as much as 5 percent of its ...

Scotland’s stormy Pentland Firth is an ideal site for extracting electricity from ocean tides. (Photo by Phillip Capper via Flickr) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free ...

Salt intrusion is a growing concern worldwide. Eleonora Saccon, who completed a master's degree in climate change ecology in her native Italy, studied the effects of salty surface water at the NIOZ ...

A team of Scottish engineers created a new tidal turbine blade that may reduce the cost of converting ocean currents into energy. The University of Edinburgh experts said their invention “reduces the ...

The Sustainable Solutions Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston produced the “Feasibility of Harbor-wide Barrier Systems” report for flood damage reduction in Boston in May 2018. Two scenarios ...

KIRKWALL, Scotland — Huddled inside what looks like a tanker ship anchored about two miles from shore, engineers from the Spanish company Magallanes Renovables monitor two giant rotors below the hull ...

It has the second largest tidal range in the world, which could be used to meet up to 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Two forms of technology are being assessed by the study: tidal barrages and ...

A two-dimensional mathematical model of tidal current is established and verified for the new 300,000-ton crude oil wharf in Dalian New Port. The ship’s mooring forces are calculated based on the ...

The morning rush-hour "tidal flow" which allows traffic to go the wrong way through the Blackwall Tunnel has ended after 29 years. Police and Transport for London said dangerous driving had led to the ...