News tagged with seawater temperature

Fukushima lesson: Prepare for unanticipated nuclear accidents

A year after the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, scientists and engineers remain largely in the dark when it comes to fundamental knowledge about how nuclear fuels behave under extreme conditions, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Mars was Wet, but was it Warm?

Mars is frozen today, but when it was young there may have been liquid water on its surface. What does the latest evidence indicate about the ancient martian climate? Understanding the past environment of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Climate change in Kuwait Bay

Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Digging deeper below Antarctica's Lake Vida

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antarctica's Lake Vida, a geologic curiosity that is essentially an ice bottle of brine, is home to some of the oldest and coldest living organisms on Earth. Perpetually covered by more than 60 feet of ice, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Coral reefs may start dissolving when atmospheric CO2 doubles

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on ocean water are making it increasingly difficult for coral reefs to grow, say scientists. A study to be published online March 13, 2009 in ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (11) | comments 8

Genetic adaptations are key to microbe's survival in challenging environment

The research focused on the bacterium Nautilia profundicola, a microbe that survives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Photosynthesis cannot occur in this dark environment, where hot, toxic fluids oozing from below the se ...

Biology /

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0