Search Results for: Ocean

Arctic Map plots new ‘gold rush’

The new map design follows a series of historical and ongoing arguments about ownership, and the race for resources, in the frozen lands and seas of the…

Investigating sea ice decline

Chances that the 2008 ice extent will fall below last year's record minimum is about 8 percent, researchers forecast after having run a number of different…

Researchers Employ New Tool to Assess Potential for Ecosystem Damage

Dickson is collaborating with Montana-based developers of the sensor, who received a $980,000 federal grant in June to further its development. Recently…

Spanish researchers discover significant leatherback turtle nesting beaches in the Caribbean

In the course of their work, they came across extensive nesting grounds that bring new hope for the survival of the leatherback turtle. This species suffered a…

Patagonian glacier yields clues for improved understanding of global climate change

Boreholes drilled during the 1990s on six glaciers in the tropical zone of the Andean Cordillera gave rise to a substantial collection of data on the changes…

UNH Researchers Tag First-Ever Free-Swimming Leatherback Turtles in New England

University of New Hampshire researchers have tagged one male and two female leatherback turtles off Cape Cod. They are the first free-swimming leatherbacks…

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