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Researchers untangle causes of differences in East Coast sea level rise
May 28, 2017 (SPX)
Now an upcoming paper in Geophysical Research Letters offers the first comprehensive model for understanding differences in sea level rise along North America's...
How X-rays helped to solve mystery of floating rocks
May 28, 2017 (SPX)
X-ray studies at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have helped scientists to solve this mystery by scanning inside...
Iron deficiency restrains marine microbes
May 28, 2017 (SPX)
"In principal, nitrogen and phosphorus are present even in the tropical ocean. But often these elements are incorporated into parts of dead plants and animals t...
Sequestering blue carbon through better management of coastal ecosystems
May 28, 2017 (SPX)
"If we are going to fight off climate change not only do we need to cut CO2 emissions," Atwood states. "But we also need to protect and restore natural carbon s...
NASA shares 3D model of El Nino
May 26, 2017 (UPI)
The animated model presents the full life cycle of El Niño, beginning with its formation in January 2015 and ending with its dissipation in April 2016. As trad...
Water efficiency in rural areas is getting worse, even as it improves in urban centers
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
"Understanding water use is becoming increasingly important, given that climate change is likely to have a profound impact on the availability of water supplies...
Water is surprisingly ordered on the nanoscale
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from EPFL, in collaboration with the institute AMOLF in the Netherlands, were able to observe what was going on in this particular region. They disc...
Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef
May 25, 2017 (ESA)
The corals of the Great Barrier Reef have now suffered two bleaching events in successive years. Experts are very concerned about the capacity for reef survival...
Heat on for Australia's Great Barrier Reef as temperatures rise
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
If the world pushes temperatures up to 2C more than the pre-industrial world, then it almost triples the odds of the heat associated with a mass bleaching event...
Dams are major driver of global environmental change
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Universite libre de Bruxelles, appears in Nature Communications. It found that man-mad...
NASA adds up record Australia rainfall
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The rainfall was the heaviest rainfall in that area since tropical cyclone Debbie hit Queensland Australia in late March. Much of the recent extremely heavy rai...
Climate change refuge for corals discovered
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
The authors say reefs located in northern Mozambique and the Quirimbas Islands supports two types of refuges and a gradient of environments that create the pote...
Scientists begin to unlock secrets of deep ocean color from organic materials
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
But what remains a mystery is how colored dissolved organic matter which originates from plant detritus (either on land or at sea) makes it into the deep ocean....
Rising seas set to double coastal flooding by 2050: study
May 18, 2017 (AFP)
A 10-to-20 centimetre (four-to-eight inch) jump in the global ocean watermark by 2050 -- a conservative forecast -- would double flood risk in high-latitude reg...
Code of conduct needed for ocean conservation, study says
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
A code of conduct for marine conservation would help prevent human rights violations that might occur during conservation and promote fair, socially responsible...
Invention produces cleaner water with less energy and no filter
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
The system injects CO2 gas into a stream of water as a method of filtering out particles. The gas, which mixes with the water in a system of channels, temporari...
Refining the ocean's thermometer
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
Known as "forams" for short, these single-celled plankton build microscopic calcite shells. When forams die, their shells fall to the ocean floor and accumulate...
Study: Climate scientists underestimating influence of dams
May 17, 2017 (UPI)
"Dams don't just have local environmental impacts. It's clear they play a key role in the global carbon cycle and therefore Earth's climate," Philippe Van Cappe...
Fish should figure in to fate of nation's aging dams
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Big dams - many approaching 50 years old - span the United States. In some areas, like the northeast, there are many and close together. In other areas like the...
Teleconnection between the tropical Pacific and Antarctica
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Such a large calving has been reported several times in the past, but the cause of ice calving in Antarctica has mostly been shrouded in mystery. Associate Prof...
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