When a new tropical system passes the Florida Keys this week, its thermal benefit to coral reefs can be tracked in real time.

The Spar is a buoy tender which missions include navigational aids, ice breaking, as well as emergency response. It operates throughout the Great Lakes, but primarily in Lakes Superior and Michigan.

“Spar buoy” was the term the builder and the Navy used to described its shape. And now Research Vessel, Floating Instrument Platform as it is best known, which officially retired after more ...

But he found himself in the media spotlight in 1995 in the face of a noisome Greenpeace campaign against the disposal of the decommissioned North Sea oil storage buoy Brent Spar in Atlantic waters ...

An investigation is ongoing. Spar is a 225’-foot multi-mission buoy tender homeported in Duluth, Minn. Its primary missions include aids to navigation, ice breaking, law enforcement and search and ...

The Brent Spar oil storage buoy is one of 470 platforms and 5000 wells to be decommissioned, as resource companies promised in their licences. Companies have lobbied for tax cuts, meaning that ...

Nov. 19—EAST LYME — A few years ago when she visited Bar Harbor, Maine, during the holidays, Carol Marelli was inspired by the festive trees adorned with decorated buoys that were on display.