News tagged with abyssal zone
Homebuilding beyond the abyss
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence from the Challenger Deep -- the deepest surveyed point in the world's oceans-- suggests that tiny single-celled creatures called foraminifera living at extreme depths of more than ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Climate variability impacts the deep sea
Deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60% of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming warn scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Clam fields found at deep, low-temperature Mariana vents
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have marveled at the unusual life forms thriving at high temperature hydrothermal vents of the deep ocean.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Earth's energy budget remained out of balance despite unusually low solar activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity -- not changes in solar activity -- are the primary force driving global warming.
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Understanding patterns of seafloor biomass
Analysis of a comprehensive database has revealed strong links between biological productivity in the surface oceans and patterns of biomass and abundance at the seafloor, helping to explain large regional ...
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Feb 09, 2011 |
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Martian lakes, seas formed by emerging underground aquifers
Researchers at the Planetary Science Institute have found a new explanation for how seas and lakes may have once developed on Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Odds are about 1-in-3 that a mega-earthquake will hit the Northwest in the next 50 years
The major earthquakes that devastated Chile earlier this year and which triggered the catastrophic Indonesian tsunami of 2004 are more than just a distinct possibility to strike the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 24, 2010 |
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Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)
Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...
Nov 22, 2009 |
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Deep-sea researchers uncover several new species and thousands of fossilized coral samples
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an international team of collaborators have returned from a month-long deep-sea voyage to a marine reserve near Tasmania, Australia, that ...
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Metagenomics of the deep Mediterranean
Metagenomics is a revolutionary approach to study microbes. Rather than isolating pure cultures, the power of high-throughput sequencing is applied directly to environmental samples to obtain information about the genomes ...
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Sep 19, 2007 |
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Researchers to visit site of 2004, 2005 Indonesian quakes
Researchers from Oregon State University and an Indonesian science center are collaborating on a pioneering project to analyze the history of great earthquakes and tsunamis on the Sunda subduction zone, along the western ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2007 |
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A climate-change amplifying mechanism
During the past ninety thousand years there were alternating hot and cold periods lasting several thousand years each which resulted in a modification of global oceanic circulation. With the help of paleoclimatic and paleooceanographic ...
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Feb 26, 2007 |
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