News tagged with sea floor
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Commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations
Extensive commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations in the Mediterranean. This has been shown in a new study carried out at the University of Haifa's Department of Maritime Civilizations. "Unfortunately, ...
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Device simulates deep-sea floor conditions in lab
Understanding how deep-sea floor rocks and sediments interact with surrounding fluids and gasses is difficult to access. But a device created by two University of Illinois at Chicago geoscientists will duplicate extreme sea ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Shallow Origins
In finding answers to the mystery of the origin of life, scientists may not have to dig too deep. New research is shedding light on shallower waters as a possible location for where life on Earth began.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Story of 4.5 million-year-old whale unveiled in Huelva
In 2006, a team of Spanish and American researchers found the fossil remains of a whale, 4.5 million years old, in Bonares, Huelva. Now they have published, for the first time, the results of the decay and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Samoan Tsunami wave was 46 feet high
(AP) -- The tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high - more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Red Sea coral seen to feed on jellyfish
(PhysOrg.com) -- Corals depends on the products of photosynthetic algae for most of their food, but they also eat tiny plankton. Now, for the first time, there is evidence of a coral eating jellyfish.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Blue whales disturbed by seismic surveys: scientists
Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday.
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain
(AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Walruses congregate on Alaska shore as ice melts
(AP) -- Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change.
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Japan to use deep-sea probes to search for minerals
Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Pacific tsunami threat greater than expected
The potential for a huge Pacific Ocean tsunami on the West Coast of America may be greater than previously thought, according to a new study of geological evidence along the Gulf of Alaska coast.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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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
Jul 19, 2009 |
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Surviving mass extinction by leading a double life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Drifting across the world's oceans are a group of unicellular marine microorganisms that are not only a crucial source of food for other marine life -- but their fossils, which are found in abundance, provide ...
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Simulations, ancient magnetism suggest mantle plumes may bend deep beneath Earth's crust
Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once though ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 02, 2009 |
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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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