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New study identifies thermometer for global ocean
Jan 04, 2018 (SPX)
Determining changes in the average temperature of the entire world's ocean has proven to be a nearly impossible task due to the distribution of different water ...
Global coral bleaching five times greater than 1980s: study
Jan 04, 2018 (AFP)
Severe coral bleaching events used to happen once every 25 to 30 years. Now, they occur every six years on average, said the report in the journal Science. "Bef...
Oxygen levels in Earth's oceans continue to drop
Jan 04, 2018 (UPI)
The latest data shows expanses of no-oxygen in the open ocean have increased four-fold over the last half-century. Since 1950, low-oxygen sites among estuaries,...
New coral sowing method could inspire large-scale reef restoration
Jan 03, 2018 (UPI)
Currently, the process of replanting reefs is labor-intensive. Divers plant coral larvae or coral fragments individually. Often, such restoration efforts occur ...
The Caribbean is stressed out
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
The study provides new insights into the influence of both local and global stressors in the basin, and some hope that the observed changes can be reversed by l...
25-year coral survey shows the Caribbean is environmentally-stressed
Dec 29, 2017 (UPI)
For more than two decades, researchers observed environmental changes and ecological health indicators as part of the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Prog...
Study shows streams are reliable indicators of a region's environmental health
Dec 29, 2017 (UPI)
However, scientists found methods for stream monitoring must be improved and standardized in order for researchers to tap into the water's value as an indicator...
The origin of water's unusual properties found
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Water, both common and necessary for life on earth, behaves very strangely in comparison with other substances. How water's density, specific heat, viscosity an...
Maps drawn in early 1900s help track Pacific Northwest kelp forests
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
"It is obviously undesirable that the United States should be dependent upon any other nation for its supply of a necessity," wrote Frank Cameron, an officer "i...
Study identifies California cliffs at risk of collapse
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Research suggests that erosion rates will increase as sea level rises, further exacerbating these problems. "It is critical we study current and historical clif...
Giant orgy produces one of the loudest sounds in the ocean
Dec 21, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists have for the first time recorded and analyzed orgy's sonic signature. According to their latest paper on the subject, published this week in the jour...
Elbit's Seagull unmanned surface vessel completes Israeli-British exercise
Dec 21, 2017 (UPI)
During the joint Israeli-British exercise in Haifa Bay, the Seagull scanned surroundings to set a safe course for the HMS Ocean, a Royal Navy helicopter carrier...
Ouch! Sea lions attack swimmers in San Francisco Bay
Dec 16, 2017 (AFP)
A cove known as Aquatic Park has been closed to swimmers for a few days by the National Park Service because of three attacks in just a week. Such attacks are r...
Sustainable dams - are they possible
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
N. LeRoy Poff, professor of biology at Colorado State University, studies the ecological impact to rivers from human-caused changes, such as dam building, and h...
Southern Ocean drives massive bloom of tiny phytoplankton
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
"Satellites see the light reflected by the coccolithophores," said Barney Balch, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. "Under a ...
New mechanism to explain how El Nino influences East Asian and WN Pacific climate
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
WNPAC begins from the El Nin~o mature winter to the following summer and thus is one of the most long-lasting anomalous circulation patterns over the entire tro...
Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
A team of researchers from MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has made a discovery that could help to answer this "ocean methane paradox." F...
Hydropower dams can be managed without an all-or-nothing choice between energy and food
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
It is an economic engine for fishermen and a food source for millions of people worldwide. And while the dams are expected to provide clean energy to the region...
Sea levels will rise, but scientists not sure how high
Dec 13, 2017 (UPI)
According to a new paper published in the journal Earth's Future, Antarctic instability is to blame for the uncertainty. The best climate models predict busines...
The vengeful sea devouring Albania's coast
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
"I'm nostalgic for how this place used to be," the septuagenarian told AFP wistfully, remembering when this beach in Qerret, to the west of the capital Tirana, ...
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