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NASA captures Typhoon Nida's clouds from 2 angles

On Monday, November 30, by 4 a.m. ET, Nida had lost her “Super Typhoon” status as a result of wind shear, and is now a typhoon. Nida's maximum sustained winds…

Acid Test: Study Reveals Both Losers and Winners of CO2-induced Ocean Acidification

The finding, based on research by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill marine scientist Justin Ries, could have important implications for ocean food…

All Decked Out

A whole microcosm of various bizarrely shaped life forms opens up when you look at diatoms, the primary component of ocean plankton, under a microscope.The…

Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months

William Patterson, from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, and his colleagues have shown that switching off the North Atlantic circulation can force the…

Oceans Absorbing Carbon Dioxide More Slowly

Jeffrey Park, professor of geology and geophysics and director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, used data collected from atmospheric observing…

Oceanic Crust Formation Is Dynamic After All

Imagine the Earth’s crust as the planet’s skin: Some areas are old and wrinkled while others have a fresher, more youthful sheen, as if they had been regularly…

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