The accretion of new material during Pluto's formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet's orbit far from the sun ...
Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2020
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Researchers at the University of St Andrews believe that fin and humpbacked whales have changed the timing of their seasonal migration in response to global warming.
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2015
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(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 in the "deep pelagic ...
Environment
Jan 26, 2010
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Researchers at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona have found that global warming is accelerating the water cycle, which could have significant consequences on the global climate system, according to ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2022
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Scientists at the Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) who developed a unique computer model with a knack for predicting hurricanes with unprecedented accuracy are forecasting a ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2013
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Research revealing that giant manta rays are deep-sea predators is likely to be critical to efforts to protect the species.
Ecology
Nov 30, 2016
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Scientists have discovered that bacteria in the deepest parts of the seafloor are absorbing carbon dioxide and could be turning themselves into an additional food source for other deep-sea life.
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2018
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Hurricane Sandy is giving up the ghost on Halloween over Penn. As the storm weakened to a remnant low pressure area the NASA GOES Project released an animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery covering Hurricane Sandy's ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2012
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The ocean is warming steadily and setting up the conditions for stronger El Niño weather events, a new study has shown.
Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2014
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An invisible layer of biological compounds on the sea surface reduces the rate at which carbon dioxide gas moves between the atmosphere and the oceans, scientists have reported.
Earth Sciences
May 29, 2018
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