News tagged with sea water
Underwater volcanoes discovered off coast of California
Scientists have discovered a cluster of underwater asphalt volcanoes rising from the sea floor just off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Melting icebergs causing sea level rise
Scientists have discovered that changes in the amount of ice floating in the polar oceans are causing sea levels to rise.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Massive Southern Ocean current discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- A deep ocean current with a volume equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers has been discovered by Japanese and Australian scientists near the Kerguelen plateau, in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Increasingly threatened loggerheads follow their own paths in travel, eating
With loggerhead sea turtle nests in dramatic decline, researchers would love to know more about where the turtles go, and what they eat, so they can better protect the creatures' habitat.
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Explained: Climate sensitivity
Climate sensitivity is the term used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to express the relationship between the human-caused emissions that add to the Earth's greenhouse effect -- carbon ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2010 |
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British team trek to measure CO2 in Arctic Ocean
Three British explorers set out on a skiing expedition on Monday across 500 kilometers (310 miles) of floating sea ice to investigate rising acid levels in the Arctic Ocean that threaten marine life.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Southern Ocean winds open window to the deep sea
Australian and US scientists have discovered how changes in winds blowing on the Southern Ocean drive variations in the depth of the surface layer of sea water responsible for regulating exchanges of heat ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2010 |
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France's crumbling sea walls no match for ocean
(AP) -- The moon was full, the wind roared, the tide was high and people died by the dozens. After a wall of ocean water engulfed picturesque towns along France's Atlantic coast, residents, officials and ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 03, 2010 |
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'Fingerprinting' method reveals fate of mercury in Arctic snow
A study by University of Michigan researchers offers new insight into what happens to mercury deposited onto Arctic snow from the atmosphere.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
(AP) -- Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions ...
Feb 09, 2010 |
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Arctic 'Melt Season' Is Growing Longer, New Research Demonstrates
New NASA-led research shows that the melt season for Arctic sea ice has lengthened by an average of 20 days over the span of 28 years, or 6.4 days per decade. The finding stems from scientists' work to compile ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Understanding human threats to the Earth's largest habitat -- the deep sea
(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people think about the deep sea, they picture broad expanses of muddy seafloor. However, the majority of deep-sea animals, and perhaps the majority of all animals on Earth, live ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years
"Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today is in fact ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Trees invading warming Arctic will cause warming over entire region, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to scientists' predictions that, as the Earth warms, the movement of trees into the Arctic will have only a local warming effect, University of California, Berkeley, scientists modeling ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Shipworm threatens archaeological treasures
The dreaded shipworm is moving into the Baltic Sea, threatening artefacts of the area's cultural heritage. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, suspect that the unfortunate spread is due to ...
Jan 11, 2010 |
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