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Ancient environment found to drive marine biodiversity

“It's a question that goes back a long way to the time of Darwin, who looked at the fossil record and tried to understand what it tells us about the history of…

NASA's NPP Satellite Acquires First VIIRS Image

VIIRS is one of five instruments onboard the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite that…

Late season Hurricane Kenneth forms in the eastern Pacific

Kenneth began as the thirteenth tropical depression and that formed on Saturday, November 19, about 480 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. On Sunday, November 29…

Effects of climate change to further degrade fisheries resources

“Fisheries are already providing fewer fish and making less money than they could if we curbed overfishing,” says Rashid Sumaila, principal investigator of the…

Robojelly Gets an Upgrade: Underwater Robot Learns to Swim More Like the Real Thing

Developed for the Office of Naval Research in 2009, this vehicle was designed to conduct ocean underwater surveillance, enabling it potentially to detect…

Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in today's climate

In past times, during the transition between an ice age and a warm period, atmospheric CO2 concentrations changed by some 100 parts per million (ppm) – from an…

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