News tagged with sea drilling

Great Barrier Reef corals unveil sea level and climate changes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Groundbreaking preliminary findings from the Great Barrier Reef show climate change has not been smooth and continuous but may have been characterised by several rapid changes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Scientists Drill Deepest Hole off New Zealand

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists aboard the research ship the JOIDES Resolution recently drilled two kilometers into Earth’s crust, setting a new record for the deepest hole drilled through the seafloor on a single ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Geoscientists Drill Deepest Hole in Ocean Crust in Scientific Ocean Drilling History

(PhysOrg.com) -- For eight weeks beginning in November 2009, off the coast of New Zealand, an international team of 34 scientists and 92 support staff and crew on board the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Feds designate polar bear habitat in Alaska

(AP) -- The Obama administration said Thursday it is designating more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as "critical habitat" for polar bears, an action that could add restrictions to ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Digging for answers to climate change

Forty miles off the Jersey Shore, an international team of scientists is grappling with a worrisome phenomenon: The oceans are slowly rising. The researchers are not studying the sea itself. Living for weeks at a time on ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground

It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Locations of strain, slip identified in major earthquake fault

Deep-sea drilling into one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet is providing the first direct look at the geophysical fault properties underlying some of the world's largest earthquakes and tsunamis.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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