Search Results for: Ocean

Greenland’s Shrunken Ice Sheet: We've Been Here Before

— Ice sheets are like bulldozers. As they grow, they push rocks, boulders, clams, fossils and other debris into piles called moraines.— By dating ancient clams…

New genomic study provides a glimpse of how whales could adapt to ocean

In a paper published in Nature Genetics, researchers from Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea Genome Research Foundation, BGI, and other…

Even if emissions stop, carbon dioxide could warm Earth for centuries

The researchers simulated an Earth on which, after 1,800 billion tons of carbon entered the atmosphere, all carbon dioxide emissions suddenly stopped….

Great Lakes Waterfowl Die-Offs: Finding the Source

A deadly menace stalks the loons, gulls, and other water birds of the Great Lakes region: Type E botulism, a neuromuscular disease caused when birds eat fish…

Expert assessment: Sea-level rise could exceed one meter in this century

The 90 experts participating in the survey anticipate a median sea-level rise of 200-300 centimeters by the year 2300 for a scenario with unmitigated…

NASA catches Melissa's fickle life as a tropical storm

NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured images that were made into an animation showing Melissa's conversion from a subtropical to tropical storm and now making…

Seite
1 344 345 346 347 348 1,100