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Melting glaciers prove to be noisiest places in ocean, study shows

According to research accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, the underwater noise levels are…

Borrowing From Whales to Engineer a New Fluid Sensor

Well, it all starts with biological structures called tubercles that the whale uses for its unique maneuvers in the ocean. Felix Ewere, a doctoral student at…

Genetics reveals where emperor penguins survived the last ice age

The Ross Sea is likely to have been a shelter for emperor penguins for thousands of years during the last ice age, when much of the rest of Antarctica was…

NASA's Terra satellite sees Tropical Cyclone Glenda stretching out

NASA's Terra satellite revealed that Tropical Cyclone Glenda was being stretched out by wind shear on Feb. 27.

'Ecosystem services' help assess ocean energy development

“Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by functioning ecosystems to people,” wrote environmental scientist Heather Leslie, the Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe…

NASA sees the Tropical Cyclone Glenda away from land

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Glenda and the AIRS instrument aboard captured infrared data on the storm on Feb. 25 at 06:47 UTC (1:47 A.M. EST). At that…

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