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Scientists focus on Salton Sea as possible earthquake risk

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a bit of coincidental news, no sooner had earthquake scientists posted warnings about the instability of the southern part of the San Andreas Fault hidden beneath the Salton Sea, than an ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Salt block unexpectedly stretches in new experiments

To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Archaeologists reconstruct diet of Nelson's Navy with new chemical analysis of excavated bones

Salt beef, sea biscuits and the occasional weevil; the food endured by sailors during the Napoleonic wars is seldom imagined to be appealing. Now a new chemical analysis technique has allowed archaeologists ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Surfboard-sized drones crossing pacific to monitor sea surface

Hundreds of miles off the California coast, four drones about the size of surfboards and are tossing across the Pacific toward Hawaii, controlled by pilots on shore.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New fresh water in Arctic could shift Gulf Stream

Scientists are monitoring a massive pool of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean that could spill into the Atlantic and potentially alter the key ocean currents that give Western Europe its moderate climate.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Salt marsh sediments help gauge climate-change-induced sea level rise

A newly constructed, 2,000-year history of sea level elevations will help scientists refine the models used to predict climate-change-induced sea level rise, according to an international team of climate researchers. The ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Scientists offer new theory for largest known mass extinction

The largest mass extinction in the history of the earth could have been triggered off by giant salt lakes, whose emissions of halogenated gases changed the atmospheric composition so dramatically that vegetation ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 5

More than 100 baby seals rescued on Dutch coast

A Dutch marine rescue centre for baby seals said Friday more than 100 of the sea mammal pups had washed up along the country's northern coastline after recent storms.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Dead Sea-dwelling microbes reveal roots of protein common to all higher life forms

(PhysOrg.com) -- We have more in common with Dead Sea-dwelling microbes than previously thought. University of Florida researchers have found that one of the most common proteins in complex life forms may have evolved from ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Living on the edge: An innovative model of mangrove-hammock boundaries in Florida

The key to understanding how future hurricanes and sea level rise may trigger changes to South Florida's native coastal forests lurks below the surface, according to a new model linking coastal forests to groundwater. Just ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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

International mission to measure saltiness of sea

(AP) -- An international mission will chart the saltiness of the ocean - from outer space.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How climate change is impacting marshes

It is a very muddy trek from the small boat to the field site along Raccoon Creek near Bridgeport, N.J. Villanova University marine scientist Nathaniel Weston and his team are all carrying ladders and equipment ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Creatures not adapting to environmental changes in Antarctic, study finds

Organisms found in the Antarctic region are not quick to adapt to changes in the environment, new international research shows. The study, carried out by 200 scientists from 15 countries, is the culmination ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Temperature and salt levels of the Western Mediterranean are on the increase

Spanish scientists have analysed the temperature and salt levels of the Western Mediterranean Sea between 1943 and 2000 to study the evolution of each variable. Their research shows that, since at least the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Climate change may spell demise of key salt marsh constituent

Global warming may exact a toll on salt marshes in New England, but new research shows that one key constituent of marshes may be especially endangered.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0