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Ocean currents speed melting of Antarctic ice

Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole,…

Prodigal plankton species makes first known migration from Pacific to Atlantic via Pole

Some 800,000 years ago – about the time early human tribes were learning to make fire – a tiny species of plankton called Neodenticula seminae went extinct in…

Researchers Discover Migration Patterns of Marine Predators

The study summarized the results from a ten year tagging program called the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP). The TOPP program deployed 4,306 tags on 23…

Global plant database set to promote biodiversity research and Earth-system sciences

The achievement rests on a worldwide collaboration of scientists from 106 research institutions. The initiative, known as TRY, is hosted at the Max Planck…

'Orca ears' inspire Stanford researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone

For most people, listening to the ocean means contemplating the soothing sound of waves breaking gently on a sandy beach.But for researchers studying…

Orientation of plancton effects the Oceans climate. Up to now scattering of light not sufficiently

An international research team including Prof. Andreas Macke, Director of the Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, explained this optical phenomenon…

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