News tagged with ocean basins
Tides, Earth's rotation among sources of giant underwater waves
Scientists at the University of Rhode Island are gaining new insight into the mechanisms that generate huge, steep underwater waves that occur between layers of warm and cold water in coastal regions of the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 24, 2010 |
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USF Study Shows First Direct Evidence of Ocean Acidification
(PhysOrg.com) -- Seawater in a vast and deep section of the northeastern Pacific Ocean shows signs of increased acidity brought on by manmade carbon dioxide in the atmosphere -- a phenomenon that carries with ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 20, 2010 |
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African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Satellites and submarines give the skinny on sea ice thickness
This summer, a group of scientists and students — as well as a Canadian senator, a writer, and a filmmaker — set out from Resolute Bay, Canada, on the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. They were headed through ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Humans 'damaging the oceans': research
Mounting evidence that human activity is changing the world's oceans in profound and damaging ways is outlined in a new scientific discussion paper released today.
Jul 29, 2009 |
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The rise of oxygen caused Earth's earliest ice age
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2009 |
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Hurricanes not likely to disrupt ocean carbon balance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hurricanes are well known for the trail of damage and debris they can leave on land, but less known for the invisible trail left over the ocean by their gale-force winds — a trail of carbon ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2009 |
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New technologies help scientists track fish species
(PhysOrg.com) -- New tracking and observing technologies are giving marine conservationists a fish-eye view of conditions, from overfishing to climate change, that are contributing to declining fish populations, ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Seamounts may serve as refuges for deep-sea animals that struggle to survive elsewhere
Over the last two decades, marine biologists have discovered lush forests of deep-sea corals and sponges growing on seamounts (underwater mountains) offshore of the California coast. It has generally been ...
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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