The City of Columbia parking enforcement is adding wheel immobilization devices, along with pre-existing Barnacle ...

A plastic bottle bobbing off Okinawa looked like an ordinary piece of ocean litter. Until researchers peered inside. They ...

Picture the ocean floor a short distance off the coast: flat, sandy, swept by currents, and almost empty. Then a steel leg several metres across gets driven into that sand. Within months, something ...

Abstract: A novel bio-inspired optimization algorithm is proposed in this paper namely barnacles mating optimizer (BMO) algorithm. The main inspiration of BMO is originated from the mating behavior of ...

After months of conflict and shutdown of sailing through the strait, hundreds of tankers have sat anchored in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, going nowhere. According to Saudi Aramco CEO Amin ...

The Strait of Hormuz reopening eased oil shipment worries but revealed new issues for tankers Hundreds of vessels face biofouling buildup from barnacles, algae, and mussels on hulls Biofouling ...

Over 600 oil tankers are stranded in the Strait of Hormuz due to severe biofouling after months of anchoring during the US-Iran conflict. Divers are racing to clean hulls, delaying oil traffic and ...

Over 600 tankers remain stranded in the Strait of Hormuz even though the guns have fallen silent, at least for now, following last week’s US-Iran ceasefire. Among the many operational hurdles ...

“Four months?” said Derek Hamm of Obsessive Compulsive Divers in Marathon, Florida. “Man. That’s plenty of time for a lot of gross stuff to accumulate.” Barnacles, mussels, clams, algae and other warm ...

Forage expert Jessica Williamson says she’s getting lots of questions from farmers about feeding alternative feeds, especially since 2018 was so wet. “A lot of folks couldn’t even get in their fields ...