The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission is able to measure ocean features, like El Niño, closer to a coastline than previous space-based missions.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 19, 2023
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Overfishing in international waters has surged in the past five years and demonstrates the need to ratify a recent global treaty to protect the high seas, a Greenpeace report said Wednesday.
Environment
Sep 14, 2023
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Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, UConn undergraduates have published the first full map of the unusual tree's ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2023
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Most of us know what a heat wave feels like on land—sweltering heat for days. But oceans get heat waves too. When water temperature goes over a seasonal threshold for five days or more, that's a marine heat wave. They do ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 5, 2023
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Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2023
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On January 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga exploded, releasing large amounts of energy into the atmosphere and ocean, causing tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean. Scientists from the Shocks, Solitons ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2023
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A new epidemiological study of endangered juvenile green sea turtles in eastern Brazil suggests that factors such as water temperature, salinity and proximity to environmental stressors could trigger the development of a ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2023
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It was the last hour of a 30-hour dive, nearly two murky miles below the ocean's surface.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2023
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The water temperature at the bottom of the Bornholm Basin in the central Baltic Sea has risen faster in recent decades than at the surface. Warnemünde researchers have now been able to explain this unusual development with ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2023
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Helpless emperor penguin chicks perished at multiple breeding grounds in West Antarctica late last year, drowning or freezing to death when sea ice eroded by global warming gave way under their tiny feet, scientists said ...
Ecology
Aug 27, 2023
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