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Expedition studies acid impacts on Arctic

The effects of ocean acidification on Arctic seas will be studied by a team of 30 researchers, including Dr Toby Tyrrell from the University of Southampton, who set sail from the UK today (1 June), venturing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Typhoon Sanvu had a bad weekend

Typhoon Sanvu had a bad weekend. It went from Typhoon status on May 25 to an extra-tropical storm and finally into a remnant low pressure area by May 29, 2012.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Europe's beaches clean, but France lagging: study

Europe's beaches are generally clean but France is lagging behind other tourist destinations in the south of the continent, a report from European Environment Agency (EEA) showed on Wednesday.

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Troubled freighter drifts toward Great Barrier Reef

A broken-down cargo ship was drifting towards the fringes of Australia's Great Barrier Reef Saturday, with fears of major damage if it were to run aground at the World Heritage-listed site.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 19, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Now Extra-Tropical Daphne, left flooding behind in Fuji on NASA satellite imagery

Tropical Storm Daphne has become an extra-tropical storm and is fading fast in the South Pacific Ocean, but not before making its mark on the Fuji Islands. NASA's TRMM satellite compiled rainfall data that ...

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

TRMM satellite sees hot towers in Cyclone Koji

Hot towers, or towering thunderclouds that give off an excessive amount of latent heat, usually indicate a tropical cyclone will strengthen in six hours, and NASA's TRMM satellite saw some of them as it passed ...

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created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Capsizing icebergs release earthquake-sized energies

A large iceberg can carry a large amount of gravitational potential energy. While all icebergs float with the bulk of their mass submerged beneath the water's surface, some drift around with precarious orientations-they are ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Three days of NASA infrared images show System 92S tropically developing

NASA satellites have been watching the low pressure area called System 92S for days, and infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed cloud temperatures were cooling, indicating the storm was getting ...

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created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unexplained dolphin strandings continue in Mass.

(AP) -- There's no good spot on Cape Cod for dolphins to continue this winter's massive and unexplained beachings, but a group of 11 has chosen one of the worst.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Satellite tracking reveals sea turtle feeding hotspots

Satellite tracking of threatened loggerhead sea turtles has revealed two previously unknown feeding 'hotspots' in the Gulf of Mexico that are providing important habitat for at least three separate populations of the turtles, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye'

Powerful Cyclone Funso's eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA's Aqua satellite noticed it had "closed" and become filled with high clouds on January 27.

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created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellites see cyclone Funso exiting Mozambique Channel

Powerful Cyclone Funso is now beginning to exit the Mozambique Channel, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured a stunning image of the storm that shows the depth and extent of it.

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created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Funso develop, threaten Mozambique

Residents of Mozambique are still recovering from the flooding caused by Tropical Depression Dando earlier this week and now newly formed Tropical Cyclone Funso threatens to bring more rainfall to the country. ...

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created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers find clue to explain how penguins know when to surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever swum around near the bottom of a swimming pool, or flippered along an ocean floor for any length of time without benefit of an air supply knows that there is a decision ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Fukushima radioactive water 'leaked to Pacific

Highly radioactive waste water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has leaked to the Pacific, its operator said Tuesday, promising to prevent similar incidents.

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0