A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led study shows a link between large dust storms on Iceland and glacial melting. The dust is both accelerating glacial melting ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 01, 2012 4.7 / 5 (13) 4 |

Warming oceans and increases in windiness could be causing of an abundance of harmful algal blooms in the North Atlantic Ocean and North Sea, according to new research.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 13, 2012 4 / 5 (5) 0

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 30, 2012 4.8 / 5 (8) 9 |

New discoveries in "marine forensics" by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) will allow federal seafood agents to genetically test blue marlin to quickly and accurately determine ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 06, 2011 not rated yet 0

Stocks of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), which have been steadily declining for the past few decades, are facing new challenges in the Gulf of Maine, where changing spring wind patterns, warming sea surface temperatures and ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 17, 2011 not rated yet 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Slow-moving winter weather systems that can lead to massive snowfalls are more frequent during the decades when the North Atlantic Ocean is warmer than usual, a new NASA study finds. The study ...

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Nov 07, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

Standing in tall rubber boots in mud smeared with gooey algae, Bruno Ouellet tugs on massive nets strewn across the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, hoping to snag just a few eels.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 21, 2011 not rated yet 0

The two most important recreational fisheries off Southern California have collapsed, according to a new study led by a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 26, 2011 4 / 5 (4) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A USC scientist will take a research expedition this month into the heart of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean to explore the very limits of life on Earth.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 19, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

This week we look at two images taken simultaneously with different Envisat sensors of Hurricane Irene, which struck the US east coast last week.

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Sep 02, 2011 not rated yet 0

Katia was a tropical storm gathering energy over the Atlantic Ocean when one of the Expedition 28 crew took this photo on Aug. 31, 2011, from aboard the International Space Station.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 02, 2011 not rated yet 0

On Friday, August 12th, there were no named tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean. However, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is now monitoring four areas in the Atlantic Ocean that have potential ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 13, 2011 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- U.S. government forecasters say the rest of the Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be busy, with an above-average number of storms.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 04, 2011 not rated yet 0

An analysis of prehistoric "Heinrich events" that happened many thousands of years ago, creating mass discharges of icebergs into the North Atlantic Ocean, make it clear that very small amounts of subsurface warming of water ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 01, 2011 4.4 / 5 (11) 2 |

The GOES-13 satellite captured a triple-header in the tropics today when it captured three tropical cyclones in one image in the Northern Hemisphere.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jul 20, 2011 not rated yet 0