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WHOI-Led Report Links Sonar to Whale Strandings

In 2008, this conflict rose to the level of the US Supreme Court which had to balance potential threat to whales from sonar against the military risk posed by…

NASA Satellites Show Towering Thunderstorms in Rare Sub-tropical Storm Arani

NOAA's Satellite and Information Service classified Arani as a T1 on the Dvorak intensity scale which would indicate an estimated wind speed of about 29 knots…

Viscous Cycle: Quartz is Key to Plate Tectonics

More than 40 years ago, pioneering tectonic geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson published a paper in the journal Nature describing how ocean basins opened and closed…

NASA's Aqua Satellite spots rare Southern Atlantic sub-tropical storm

NASA's Aqua satellite spotted some strong convection in a recently formed low pressure area that strengthened into Sub-Tropical Storm Arani in the South…

Flow rates, fates of Gulf spill contaminants assessed from the air

The researchers also determined the fate of most of those gas and oil compounds using atmospheric chemistry data collected from aircraft last June. They say…

Algae in darkness – Survival strategy unraveled

It has been known for a while that the particularly abundant diatoms (unicellular algae with a silicate frustule) are also able to survive in the dark bottom…

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