News tagged with sea bed
Ocean floor muddies China's grip on '21st-century gold'
China's monopoly over rare-earth metals could be challenged by the discovery of massive deposits of these hi-tech minerals in mud on the Pacific floor, a study on Sunday suggests.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 03, 2011 |
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How plants drove animals to the land
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of ancient oxygen levels presents the first concrete evidence that after aquatic plants evolved and boosted the levels of oxygen aquatic life exploded, leading to fierce competition ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Ancient oceans offer new insight into the origins of animal life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Analysis of a rock type found only in the world's oldest oceans has shed new light on how large animals first got a foothold on the Earth.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Wind farm in North Sea has positive net impact on fauna
A North-Sea wind farm has hardly any negative effects on fauna. At most, a few bird species will avoid such a wind farm. It turns out that a wind farm also provides a new natural habitat for organisms living ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Denmark moves forward on North Pole claim
Denmark on Monday presented its "Arctic Strategy" for the next decade, confirming that it intends to lay claim to the North Pole sea bed by 2014 at the latest.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Dutch build more dunes against rising seas
On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.
Nov 20, 2009 |
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World's biggest Wave Hub installed off UK coast
(PhysOrg.com) -- A wave energy generation test site called the "Wave Hub" is being set up off Cornwall’s northern coast. The site is the first offshore wave energy site in the UK, and will allow four wave ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Hagfish found to eat through its skin
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study in Canada has shown that the primitive fish called the Hagfish, which has the habit of burrowing into dead or dying creatures on the sea bed, eats by absorption through its skin ...
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Exploring hidden life’s abundance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two miles below the surface of the Sargasso Sea lies a depression in the Earth’s crust filled with sediment and, scientists believe, teeming with life — exotic, microscopic, and very likely ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Marine animals suggest evidence for a trans-Antarctic seaway
A tiny marine filter-feeder, that anchors itself to the sea bed, offers new clues to scientists studying the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - a region that is thought to be vulnerable to collapse.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Egypt scours bed of Lake Qarun in search of antiquities
Egyptian experts have begun to explore the depths of Lake Qarun south of Cairo using remote sensing radars in search of sunken artefacts, antiquities officials told AFP on Wednesday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Cliffhanging corals avoid trawler damage
Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Research reveals exotic Henslow Crabs in North Sea
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change has led to masses of bizarre swimming crabs to invade the North Sea - hundreds of miles from their usual home, new research has revealed.
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Submarine robots learn teamwork
New technology developed by European researchers will allow autonomous underwater vehicles to work together as a team. It increases the scope of submarine applications for autonomous vehicles. Even better, ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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First dinosaur fossil discovered in Angola
Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it's a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emerging from decades of war.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 16, 2011 |
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