University of Adelaide researchers have discovered how grapes "breathe," and report that shortage of oxygen leads to cell death in the grape.
Plants & Animals
Mar 2, 2018
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Oxygen is an essential necessity of life on land. The same applies for almost all organisms in the ocean. However, the oxygen supply in the oceans is threatened by global warming in two ways: Warmer surface waters take up ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2017
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Around the world, wide swaths of open ocean are nearly depleted of oxygen. Not quite dead zones, they are "oxygen minimum zones," where a confluence of natural processes has led to extremely low concentrations of oxygen.
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2016
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A reduction in the amount of oxygen dissolved in the oceans due to climate change is already discernible in some parts of the world and should be evident across large regions of the oceans between 2030 and 2040, according ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 27, 2016
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Modern mountain climbers typically carry tanks of oxygen to help them reach the summit. It's the combination of physical exertion and lack of oxygen at high altitudes that creates one of the biggest challenges for mountaineers.
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2015
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An Antarctic octopus that lives in ice-cold water uses an unique strategy to transport oxygen in its blood, according to research published in Frontiers in Zoology. The study suggests that the octopus's specialized blood ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2015
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Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have synthesized crystalline materials that can bind and store oxygen in high concentrations. Just one spoon of the substance is enough to absorb all the oxygen in a room. ...
Materials Science
Sep 30, 2014
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Disrupting just one process in the important relationship between microbes and bigger plants and animals that live in ocean floor sediment may have knock-on effects that could reduce the productivity of coastal ecosystems, ...
Environment
Aug 29, 2013
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The supply of dissolved iron to oceans around continental shelves has been found to be more variable by region than previously believed – with implications for future climate prediction.
Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2013
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Scientists at the Universities of Liverpool, Plymouth, and Radboud, Netherlands, have challenged the view that giant animals are found in polar seas because of a superabundance of oxygen in cold water.
Ecology
Jul 10, 2013
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