152 billion tons of fresh water—equivalent to 20 times the volume of Loch Ness or 61 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, entered the seas around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia when the megaberg A68A melted ...
Environment
Jan 20, 2022
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By drilling deep down into sediments on the ocean floor researchers can travel back in time. A research team led from Uppsala University now presents new clues as to when and why a period often referred to as the 'biogenic ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2022
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The ocean's most abundant life form, a type of bacteria discovered by Oregon State University, consumes an organic compound commonly found in solvents like paint remover, a new study by OSU shows.
Ecology
Dec 15, 2021
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The tiny, pale surf clam about the size of a fingernail that most people have seen and collected on beaches around the world holds clues in its shell to Earth's past. For the first time, researchers have been able to identify ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2021
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The Southern Ocean is a significant carbon sink, absorbing a large amount of the excess carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities, according to a new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research ...
Environment
Dec 2, 2021
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Texas A&M Oceanographer and Assistant Professor Henry Potter has gathered evidence suggesting that tropical storms in the late hurricane season have a better chance of intensifying than early season storms.
Environment
Nov 18, 2021
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Researchers have found the two-year heatwave known as 'the Blob' may have temporarily dampened the Pacific's 'biological pump,' which shuttles carbon from the surface ocean to the deep sea where it can be stored for millennia.
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2021
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Flakes of paint could be one of the most abundant type of microplastic particles in the ocean, new research has suggested.
Environment
Oct 7, 2021
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Warming ocean waters have caused a drop in the brightness of the Earth, according to a new study.
Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2021
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Mercury released into the atmosphere by industry enters the sea and from there makes its way into the food chain. Now, an analysis by the University of Basel has revealed how the harmful substance enters seawater in the first ...
Environment
Sep 29, 2021
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