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Tracking down climate change with radar eyes

Over the past 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic have risen an average of 2.2 millimeters per year. This is the conclusion of a Danish-German research team…

Super salty, subzero Arctic water provides peek at possible life on other planets

On Earth, scientists are studying the most extreme environments to learn how life might exist under completely different settings, like on other planets.

Coral reefs shifting away from equator

Coral reefs are retreating from equatorial waters and establishing new reefs in more temperate regions, according to new research in the journal Marine Ecology…

NASA satellites find biggest seaweed bloom in the world

Based on computer simulations, they confirmed that this belt of the brown macroalgae Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents. It can grow so…

More 'reactive' land surfaces cooled the Earth down

From time to time, there have been long periods of cooling in Earth's history. Temperatures had already fallen for more than ten million years before the last…

Remote but remarkable: Illuminating the smallest inhabitants of the largest ocean desert

The middle of the South Pacific is as far away from land as you can possibly get. Solar irradiance is dangerously high, reaching a UV-index that is labelled…

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