Dissolved iron in North Atlantic traced to sources
Iron is present in tiny concentrations in seawater. On the order of a few billionths of a gram in a liter.
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2014
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News tagged with seawater
Scale model WWII craft takes flight with fuel from the sea concept
Navy researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, demonstrated proof-of-concept of novel NRL technologies developed for the recovery of carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen ...
Engineering
Apr 7, 2014
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Ocean acidification leaving fish in the dark
Increasing carbon dioxide in the world's oceans could hamper fishes' eyesight, slowing their reaction times and leaving them vulnerable to predators or unable to hunt, new research has shown.
Environment
Jan 30, 2014
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How radioactive is our ocean?
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine chemist Ken Buesseler began sampling and analyzing seawater surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant three months after the 2011 disaster. Today, he launched ...
Environment
Jan 15, 2014
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New study shows large landmasses existed 2.7 billion years ago
A Cologne working group involving Prof. Carsten Münker and Dr. Elis Hoffmann and their student Sebastian Viehmann (working with Prof. Michael Bau from the Jacobs University Bremen) have managed for the first time to determine ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2014
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New generation of micro sensors for monitoring ocean acidification
The first step in developing a cost-effective micro sensor for long-term monitoring of ocean acidification has been achieved by a team of scientists and engineers.
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 13, 2013
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Smallest plankton grow fastest with rising CO2
Could the future of the ocean depend on its smallest organisms? An experiment conducted as part of the European project EPOCA, coordinated by Jean-Pierre Gattuso of the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (CNRS/UPMC), ...
Environment
Sep 25, 2013
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Fuel-efficient cars, planes cheaper with magnesium drawn from ocean
A lightweight metal that reduces fuel use in cars and planes could be extracted from the ocean through a unique process being developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The process could ...
Materials Science
Sep 20, 2013
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Mantas, devil rays butchered for apothecary trade now identifiable
Since dried filters from the mouths of filter-feeding rays hit apothecary shop menus in Asia—the thought being that eating ground-up filters will cleanse one's liver—there's been no way to know which of these gentle-natured ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2013
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Mass fish kill in Hawaii linked to molasses
Fish began dying off en masse in the waters around Honolulu after hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses spilled into Honolulu Harbor early this week - and there's nothing officials can do to clean it up.
Environment
Sep 16, 2013
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