| 16 August 2010

Image via The Official CTBTO Photostream John Yuzhu You, a scientists at Sydney University, has called upon telecommunications companies to do something extraordinarily helpful -- let scientists use their undersea cables for oceanic climate change research. By opening up both old and new cables for use by the climate science community and attaching voltmeters at locations along the lines that would read the "pulse" of the ocean, researchers could learn so much more about currents, salinity, seismology, temperatures and other vital signs. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger