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NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet

The canyon has the characteristics of a winding river channel and is at least 460 miles (750 kilometers) long, making it longer than the Grand Canyon. In some…

UCSB study examines heavy metal pollutants in fish at oil platforms and natural sites

The research, led by fish expert Milton S. Love, a research biologist with UCSB's Marine Science Institute, entailed collecting a total of 196 fish –– 18 kelp…

NASA Infrared Eye Sees Wind Shear Affecting Tropical Storm Kong-Rey

As Tropical Storm Kong-Rey moved past the northern Philippines NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of the storm that revealed wind shear was…

Wake up and smell the reef: Fish larvae sniff their way back home

How tiny fish larvae travel away from the reef, then know how to navigate their way back home is a scientific mystery. A new study led by Dr. Claire Paris,…

New Cassini data from Titan indicate a rigid, weathered ice shell

The best explanation for the findings, the authors said, is that Titan's ice shell is rigid and that relatively small topographic features on the surface are…

Submarine canyons a source of marine invertebrate diversity, abundance

What’s more, scientists have used this data to draw new connections between the levels of faunal diversity and the heterogeneity of submarine canyon landscapes…

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