Researchers got a rare opportunity to study an underwater volcano in the Caribbean when it erupted while they were surveying the area.
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2018
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Photosynthesis—the harvesting of sunlight to produce energy—is the ultimate driver of virtually all life on the surface of our planet. Most photosynthetic creatures rely on optical light, the kind we see, to energize ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2013
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A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia's largest maritime wartime ...
Archaeology
Apr 23, 2023
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New research finds large earthquakes can trigger underwater landslides thousands of miles away, weeks or months after the quake occurs.
Earth Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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Twelve European companies launched a 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) initiative on Monday to plant huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 13, 2009
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Scientists report they have "compelling evidence" that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has impacted deep-sea corals. Their study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences utilized a wide ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2012
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For 18 days, an underwater robot dived and surfaced and dived and surfaced—some 402 times in all—listening to the ocean's depths as it traveled hundreds of miles along the continental shelf off the Washington and Oregon ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2019
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(AP) -- A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved ...
Archaeology
Jun 25, 2010
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(AP) -- There is no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over. As wake-up time approaches, you cannot reset the alarm time.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 10, 2012
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Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego offer scientists an extraordinary new tool to study ocean currents and the tiny creatures they transport. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2017
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