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Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan

“In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” said Andreas Muenchow, associate…

NOAA divers capture invasive lionfish in the Virgin Islands National Park

The lionfish was first spotted July 15, 2010 and captured the following day within 10 meters of the original sighting. A team of divers and scientists from…

Coastal Creatures May Have Reduced Ability to Fight Off Infections in Acidified Oceans

The ocean is filled with a soup of bacteria and viruses. The animals living in these environments are constantly under assault by pathogens and need to be able…

Second Hottest July on Record as El Nino Fade Continues

Second hottest July on record as El Nino fade continuesGlobal climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeJuly temperatures (preliminary)Global…

First satellite measurement of water volume in Amazon floodplain

The result — 285 billion metric tons, or 285 cubic kilometers of water by volume — sounds like a lot. That amount is over half the volume of Lake Erie, which…

High levels of carbon dioxide threaten oyster survival

But less focus has been given to global warming's evil twin, ocean acidification, which occurs when CO2 lowers the pH of water bodies, thus making them more…

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