Search Results for: Ocean

Breakup of supercontinent Pangea cooled mantle and thinned crust

The thinning is related to the cooling of Earth's interior prompted by the splitting of the supercontinent Pangaea, which broke up into the continents that we…

Mutations acquired trans-Pacific may be key to changes in Zika severity

The Zika virus remains a mystery. Isolated from macaque monkeys in the Ziika Forest in Uganda in 1947, the virus was shown to infect humans not long after, but…

Sea ice hit record lows in November

“It looks like a triple whammy–a warm ocean, a warm atmosphere, and a wind pattern all working against the ice in the Arctic,” said NSIDC director Mark…

Hulking hurricanes: Seeking greater accuracy in predicting storm strength

Fully developed tropical cyclones — variously called hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones, depending on their region–can grow as wide as several hundred miles…

A new dead zone in the Indian Ocean could impact future marine nutrient balance

New research published in the journal Nature Geosciences shows that the Bay of Bengal, located in the northeastern Indian Ocean, also hosts a “dead zone” of an…

Toxic 'marine snow' can sink quickly, persist at ocean depths

When algae cells run out of nutrients and start to die, they clump together and sink as marine snow. The algae and its marine snow aggregates can serve as a…

Seite
1 197 198 199 200 201 1,100