News tagged with water masses

Antarctic waters changing due to climate: study

The densest waters of Antarctica have reduced dramatically over recent decades, in part due to man-made impacts on the climate, Australian scientists said Friday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 46

Ocean warming causes elephant seals to dive deeper

Global warming is having an effect on the dive behaviour and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exploring water in the deep Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published today in Nature Geoscience provides new insight into the water cycle of the deep Earth, volcanic activity in the Pacific and the potential catastrophic effects when these ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Prehistoric greenhouse data from ocean floor could predict Earth's future

New research from the University of Missouri indicates that Atlantic Ocean temperatures during the greenhouse climate of the Late Cretaceous Epoch were influenced by circulation in the deep ocean. These changes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Rising CO2 levels at end of Ice Age not tied to Pacific Ocean

At the end of the last Ice Age, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose rapidly as the planet warmed; scientists have long hypothesized that the source was CO2 released from the deep ocean.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Deep recycling in the Earth faster than thought

The recycling of the Earth's crust in volcanoes happens much faster than scientists have previously assumed. Rock of the oceanic crust, which sinks deep into the earth due to the movement of tectonic plates, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

How is the Arctic Ocean changing?

On coming Wednesday, 15 June, the research vessel Polarstern of the German Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association will set off on its 26th arctic expedition. Over 130 scientists ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lithium in drinking water in Andean villages

That the thyroid can be affected and that the kidneys in rare cases can be damaged are known side-effects of medication with lithium. Female patients who become pregnant are also advised against taking medicine containing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover water on the moon is widespread, similar to Earth's

Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are once again turning what scientists thought they knew about the moon on its head.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Fla. ridges' mystery marine fossils tied to rising land, not seas

Sea level has not been as high as the distinctive ridges that run down the length of Florida for millions of years. Yet recently deposited marine fossils abound in the ridges' sands.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers Find Way to 'See' Water Molecules Hidden Inside Proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University has discovered a way to look at water molecules hidden deep inside proteins, revealing a network through which information flows ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | 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

Invading camels to be shot in Australian town

(AP) -- Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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