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Scientists Discover First Seafloor Vents on Ultraslow-Spreading Ridge

“The discovery of the first active vents ever found on an ultraslow-spreading ridge is a significant milestone event,” said Jian Lin, leader of a team of Woods…

Winter Flounder On The Fast Track To Recovery

Winter flounder – sold in markets as flounder or lemon sole – in the Gulf of Maine went into serious decline in the 1980s, taking with it a major commercial…

Cluster sees tsunamis in space

Generally seen in high-latitude regions such as Scandinavia or Canada, aurorae are colourful curtains of light that appear in the sky. Caused by the…

Study of coastal disasters yields surprising findings, arresting images

One of the research team's surprising conclusions: when it comes to the damage they wreak, hurricanes and tsunamis can bring surprisingly similar forces to…

Ancient coral reef tells the history of Kenya's soil erosion

In a study published in the Feb. 22 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Dunbar and his colleagues used coral samples from the Indian Ocean to create a…

University of Colorado instruments to launch on NASA cloud mission April 25

A satellite carrying two University of Colorado at Boulder instruments to study silvery-blue clouds that mysteriously form 50 miles above Earth's polar regions…

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