News tagged with ocean science
Bering Strait may be global temperature stabilizer
(Phys.org) -- A diverse group of climate researchers has found after running computer simulations that the strait that separates North America and Russia might be serving as a global temperature stabilizer. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Astronomers solve mystery of vanishing energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt
UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft.
Jan 29, 2012 |
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Rising air pollution worsens drought, flooding, study shows
Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can strongly affect cloud development in ways that reduce precipitation in dry regions or seasons, while increasing rain, snowfall ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2011 |
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First life may have arisen above serpentine rock, researchers say
(PhysOrg.com) -- About 3.8 billion years ago, Earth was teeming with unicellular life. A little more than 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth was a ball of vaporous rock. And somewhere in between, the first organisms ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2011 |
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What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn's moon Titan?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Ocean's carbon dioxide uptake reduced by climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- How deep is the ocean's capacity to buffer against climate change? As one of the planet's largest single carbon absorbers, the ocean takes up roughly one-third of all human carbon emissions, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2011 |
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Global warming pause linked to sulfur in China
Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth's temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Ocean's harmful low-oxygen zones growing, are sensitive to small changes in climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fluctuations in climate can drastically affect the habitability of marine ecosystems, according to a new study by UCLA scientists that examined the expansion and contraction of low-oxygen ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2011 |
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New research points to the significant role of oceans in ancient global cooling (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the American Midwest and furry marsupials wandered temperate forests in what is now the frozen Antarctic. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2011 |
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Galileo spacecraft reveals magma 'ocean' beneath surface of Jupiter's moon Io
A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has revealed that beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is an "ocean" of molten or partially molten magma.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 12, 2011 |
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Algal antifreeze makes inroads into ice
the important first rung of the food web each spring in places like the Arctic Ocean – can engineer ice to its advantage, according to the first published findings about this ability.
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Antarctic sea temperatures cooled in Holocene but now rising: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of an ocean sediment core taken from deep water off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula is beginning to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of climate variability ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Deep-Sea Microbes May Answer Long-Standing Question About Earth's Nitrogen Cycle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified an unexpected metabolic ability in a symbiotic community of deep-sea microorganisms. It may help solve a lingering mystery about the world's nitrogen cycle.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Scientists discover surprise in Earth's upper atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. The research, federally funded by the National ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Geobiologists propose that the earliest complex organisms fed by absorbing ocean buffet
Research at Virginia Tech has shown that the oldest complex life forms -- living in nutrient-rich oceans more than 540 million years ago - likely fed by osmosis.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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