Environmental engineers from Trinity College Dublin have devised a sustainable approach to mitigate the environmental impacts that peatland forestry practices exert on Ireland's precious aquatic biodiversity. By seeding grasses ...
Environment
Apr 18, 2014
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Today, deep waters formed in the northern North Atlantic fill approximately half of the deep ocean globally. In the process, this impacts on the circum-Atlantic climate, regional sea level, and soak up much of the excess ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2014
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When the threatened European eels cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to the Sargasso Sea to spawn, they swim in deep water. But this does not protect them from predators, researchers from the University of Southern Denmark report: ...
Ecology
Feb 10, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Over the past two decades, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet increased four-fold contributing to one-quarter of global sea level rise. However, the chain of events and physical processes that contributed ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2014
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(Phys.org) —The water in a 35-million-year-old impact crater beneath Chesapeake Bay, an estuary off the Atlantic Coast of North America, is twice as salty as ocean water, according to a study by Ward E. Sanford and his ...
In an effort to study the circulation of ocean waters, a key component of the global climate system, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $16 million in grants over the next five years to oceanographers at Duke ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A species of one of the world's tiniest creatures, ocean plankton, is heading for extinction as it struggles to adapt to changes in sea temperature. And it may take local fisheries with it.
Ecology
Oct 18, 2013
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Perched away from the world on the rocky southern tip of Africa, the town of Hermanus rose to global whale-watching renown almost by chance.
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2013
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This Atlantic hurricane season may not be quite as busy as U.S. forecasters once thought, but they still warn of an unusually active and potentially dangerous few months to come.
Earth Sciences
Aug 8, 2013
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Raising fish in tanks that contain hiding places and other obstacles can make the fish both smarter and improve their chances of survival when they are released into the wild, according to an international team of researchers.
Plants & Animals
Jul 30, 2013
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