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Environmental Conservation

Scientists Refine Seawater Equation for Enhanced Ocean Research

This summer, one of the world’s leading ocean science bodies, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO’s) and…

Environmental Conservation

Understanding Climate Change: Signals from Ocean Circulation

What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth’s climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide…

Earth Sciences

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…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Tropical Storm Cleo Form in Southern Indian Ocean

TRMM is managed by both NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, and provides rainfall estimates of tropical systems from its orbit in space. Data from TRMM earlier…

Event News

Key Discoveries from the 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting

We are in the process of organizing a series of press conferences to bring some of the most important new discoveries to reporters who cover the meeting. These…

Materials Sciences

Discover the Wonder Snail’s Unique Armor in Ocean Depths

Deep within the Kairei Indian hydrothermal vent field, two-and-one-half miles below the central Indian Ocean, scientists have discovered a gastropod mollusk,…

Earth Sciences

Seamounts: Discover Ocean’s Hidden Mountain Wonders

Lying beneath the ocean is spectacular terrain ranging from endless chains of mountains and isolated peaks to fiery volcanoes and black smokers exploding with…

Life & Chemistry

New Species Found on Great Barrier Reef’s Ocean Floor

The layer of sand on ocean floor is home to a large part of the vast diversity of marine species. Species representing almost all classes of marine animals…

Environmental Conservation

Ocean Acidification: The Hidden Threat to 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…

Environmental Conservation

Listen Up: Ocean Acidification Poses Little Threat to Whales’ Hearing

Tim Duda, of WHOI’s Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department, undertook a study in response to warnings that as the ocean becomes more acidic—due to…

Earth Sciences

La Nina Pacific Ocean Cooling Pulls Global Temps Below Norms

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeJanuary temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: -0.01 C (about 0.02 degrees Fahrenheit)…

Environmental Conservation

Reducing Ocean Mysteries will be the Legacy of the BP Oil Spill

Damage was catastrophic along the Gulf Coast states. Oil and tar balls washed ashore, fouling beaches and estuaries. Marine organisms, seen and unseen below…

Earth Sciences

Mercury Transforms to Toxic Form in Arctic Ocean Waters

After two years of testing water samples across the Arctic Ocean, the researchers found that relatively harmless inorganic mercury, released from human…

Environmental Conservation

Endangered Abalone Faces Threat from Rising Ocean Acidity

The northern abalone–prized as a gourmet delicacy–has a range that extents along the North American west coast from Baja California to Alaska. Even though…

Earth Sciences

La Niña Pacific Ocean Event Appears to be Forming

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeSeptember temperatures (preliminary)* Global composite temp.: +0.29 C (about 0.52 degrees…

Earth Sciences

Probing Questions & In-Depth Answers: Austria Participates for the First Time in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

Austria´s annual contribution to this programme is financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The first-time…

Environmental Conservation

Submarine springs offer preview of ocean acidification effects on coral reefs

The naturally low pH (a measure of acidity) in the water around the springs creates conditions similar to those that will result from the widespread…

Earth Sciences

NASA Discovers First Tropical Cyclone of Indian Ocean Season

On Oct. 12 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT), Tropical Cyclone 01S (TC01S) was “born” about 90 nautical miles (103.6 miles/166.7 km) west-southwest of Diego Garcia,…

Earth Sciences

NASA Detects Formation of Tropical Cyclone 15S in Indian Ocean

Tropical Cyclone 15S was born from the low pressure area designated as System 92S. System 92S developed on Feb. 9 and intensified into a tropical storm on Feb….

Earth Sciences

Charcoal’s Impact on Ocean Health and Global Carbon Budget

A seemingly ordinary topic, being able to determine the fate of charcoal is critical in helping scientists balance the global carbon budget, which in turn can…

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