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Ocean
Scientific American - Environment:
The darkest reaches of the ocean have long been thought of as a desolate biome. But as researchers send equipment down to document these mysterious depths, they are quickly learning not only that it is teaming with life, but (Read More)
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Yale Environment 360:
East Antarctica’s massive ice sheets, which scientists believed to be relatively unaffected by global warming, have been melting at an accelerating rate since 2002, according to a new study. Using a NASA satellite that can me (Read More)
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Scientific American - Environment:
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Elizabeth Grossman's book Chasing Molecules .Even hundreds of miles from the nearest industrial or agricultural activity, the sea ice, ocean, and Arctic plants and animals r (Read More)
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Eureka! Science News - Earth & Climate:
New research adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting the Red Planet once had an ocean.
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Climate
2 days ago
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
En route to historic 1st global Census of Marine Life (Oct. 2010), scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight -- creatures that somehow (Read More)
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EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the effects of winds and tides. Howev (Read More)
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Yale Environment 360:
A study of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans from 1765 to the present shows that as humanity pumps more CO2 into the atmosphere, the capacity of the world’s oceans to continue absorbing carbon appears t (Read More)
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Mission: Sustainability
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Carbon
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
The MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally. MIRAS will map soil moisture and ocean salinity to improve our understanding of the role these two key (Read More)
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Mission: Sustainability
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Water
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, limited efficiency, and the need to be tethered (Read More)
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Energy
5 days ago
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with (Read More)
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Journal Watch Online:
Ocean absorbs billions of tons of man-made carbon each year
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Climate Feedback:
Daniel Cressey; cross-posted from The Great BeyondThe world’s carbon dioxide ‘sinks’ are not able to keep up with the amount of the greenhouse gas being produced, according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience.Reviewing (Read More)
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Mongabay.com News:
A new study—the first of its kind—has completed an annual accounting of the oceans' intake of carbon over the past 250 years, and the news is troubling. According to the study, published in Nature, the oceans' ability to seq (Read More)
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Eureka! Science News - Earth & Climate:
Anja has continued to weaken over the last 24 hours, and NASA's QuikScat satellite has confirmed that the once mighty Category 4 Cyclone is now a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean. Two instruments on NASA's Aqua sat (Read More)
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IUCN - All News:
World leaders should recognize the immense potential of the ocean to reduce global warming by capturing carbon, if we are to avoid a serious climate crisis. (Read More)
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Kai Rasmus studied optical properties of the Antarctic system and produced new radiation information
7 days ago
AlphaGalileo RSS Channel:
The Antarctic system comprises of the continent itself, Antarctica, and the ocean surrounding it, the Southern Ocean. The system has an important part in the global climate due to its size, its high latitude location and the (Read More)
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EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, Nov. 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about 330 miles south-southw (Read More)
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Mongabay.com News:
Environmentalists say that the International Commissions for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) did not do enough in their yearly meeting to protect the ocean's sharks. (Read More)
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EarthTrends - News:
Population and ConsumptionThe air is full of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. The ocean is emptying. We have observed record setting harvests over the last few years, and yet chronic hunger persists and has recently be (Read More)
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Mission: Sustainability
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Carbon
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
Short-term fluctuations in the spatial distribution of the ocean water masses. (Read More)
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