NOAA-supported scientists have found this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be the fifth largest on record at 7,722 square miles - an area the size of New Jersey, near the upper limit of their projections, but tropical storm ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2010
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British scientists have discovered an enormous dome of fresh water in the western Arctic Ocean. They think it may result from strong Arctic winds accelerating a great clockwise ocean circulation called the Beaufort Gyre, ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2012
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Upwelling and downwelling play an important role in transporting the heat, carbon, and nutrients that affect Earth's climate. Many studies have focused on these vertical motions in the ocean, including in eastern boundary ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2022
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Official government estimates now say that around 27,000 barrels of oil per day have been pouring out of the damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico since the leak began. This estimate comes from the report of the Flow Rate Technical ...
Environment
Jun 14, 2010
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(AP) -- Scientists judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature's resiliency, an Associated ...
Environment
Apr 18, 2011
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Whales have been shown to increase the pigment in their skin in response to sunshine, just as we get a tan.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2013
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A dolphin species considered regionally extinct in the Adriatic has been spotted there repeatedly off the Italian and Slovenian coast, according to research led by a marine scientist at the University of St Andrews.
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2020
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For as long as the Salton Sea has faced the threat of ecological collapse, some local residents and environmentalists have advocated a radical cure for the deteriorating lake: a large infusion of ocean water.
Environment
Oct 6, 2022
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In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one-fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2017
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Those following the latest developments in climate science would have been stunned by the jaw-dropping headlines last week proclaiming the "Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests"—which responded to ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 4, 2023
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