News tagged with water levels

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Researchers study effect of yuma desalting plant on Cienega de Santa Clara

A binational team is studying whether running the Yuma Desalting Plant will affect Mexico's Cienega de Santa Clara, the largest wetland on the Colorado River Delta.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New navsat sensor improves water monitoring

(PhysOrg.com) -- The start-up company Star2Earth, reared in the ESA Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands, will improve electricity production from a hydroelectric plant on Lake Laja in Chile by using ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High levels of mercury found in Cataraqui River: Queen's study

The Inner Harbour on the Cataraqui River in Kingston, Ont., has mercury levels in sediment more than two times the Canadian government's most severe effect limits, according to a Queen's University study.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 31 | with audio podcast

USF Study Shows First Direct Evidence of Ocean Acidification

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seawater in a vast and deep section of the northeastern Pacific Ocean shows signs of increased acidity brought on by manmade carbon dioxide in the atmosphere -- a phenomenon that carries with ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (27) | comments 54 | with audio podcast

New study probes mystery of loop current in eastern Gulf of Mexico

A study released by the Minerals Management Service today examines the circulation in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and sheds new light on the behavior of the Loop Current (LC) and Loop Current Eddies (LCEs), the relation ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study confirms untold levels of oil sands pollution on the Athabasca

After an exhaustive study of air and water pollution along the Athabasca River and its tributaries from Fort McMurray to Lake Athabasca, researchers say pollution levels have increased as a direct result of nearby oil sands ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Study: Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat

A new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high tide as buffer against potentially damaging ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How much water does the ocean have?

The calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of geodesists and oceanographers from the University of Bonn, as well ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers

(AP) -- With whale fins splashing in the distance, Ruth Curry hauls up her catch from the blustery deck of an icebreaker.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Wind, current combined to raise E Coast sea level

(AP) -- Folks living along the East Coast were in higher water early this summer thanks to a change in the wind and current flow.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Benchmark glaciers' shrinking at faster rate, study finds

Climate change is shrinking three of the nation's most studied glaciers at an accelerated rate, and government scientists say that finding bolsters global concerns about rising sea levels and the availability of fresh drinking ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 18

Gulf's 'dead zone' much smaller than predicted (w/ Video)

NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Melting Greenland ice sheets may threaten Northeast United States, Canada

Melting of the Greenland ice sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax, and other cities in the northeastern United ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (72) | comments 18