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Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed

Models of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans need to be revised, according to new work by UC Irvine and other scientists published online Sunday in Nature…

‘Dirty Blizzard’ in Gulf May Account for Missing Deepwater Horizon Oil

Jeff Chanton, the John Widmer Winchester Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science at Florida State University, is…

Microbes in the Mariana Trench

Sediments of the deepest trench on Earth, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, shows surprisingly high microbial activity. An international research team led…

Highly effective communities of bacteria in the world's deepest oceanic trench

Their analyses document that a highly active bacteria community exists in the sediment of the trench – even though the environment is under extreme pressure…

Two Marine Protected Areas Created on Argentina’s Coast

The Wildlife Conservation Society applauds the Government of Argentina for creating two enormous marine protected areas in Patagonia, a region filled with…

NASA Sees Large Decrease in Cyclone Sandra's Rainfall Intensity

On March 11, 2013, NASA's TRMM satellite twice flew above weakening tropical cyclone Sandra as it was passing to the west of New Caledonia in the southern…

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