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Recent observations conducted with the NASA Jason-1 and -2 satellites have revealed that La Niña is returning to the tropical Pacific Ocean. This coupled, ocean-atmosphere phenomenon can cause severe weather disruptions throughout North America and, to a lesser extent, the entire world.
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19 January 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Investigators at the Harvard University announce the discovery of a naturally-occurring battery at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The construct is powered up by microorganisms that live near and around structures called hydrothermal vents. These are locations in the Earth's crust from which hot gases are ven... |
12 December 2011
10:23 GMT |
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Experts handling the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident say that radioactive water made its way into the Pacific Ocean many times since the March 11 earthquake that crippled the installation. A new study now looks at how radioactivity damaged the ocean during the first four months.
It therefore covers ... |
10 December 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency announce that an international group of scientists has just entered the early phases of preparation for the NASA Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX). This research will be conducted between 2013 and 2014.
Investigators plan to analyze a layer of the atmosphere c... |
11 November 2011
04:50 GMT |
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“As you're reading this email, it's likely that a sea turtle caught on a tuna industry long line is slowly drowning somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.” - this is how Greenpeace begin their latest public campaign, and this is how we wish to grab your attention also.Needless to say, this call for hel... |
11 October 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Last Saturday, at 12:01 am EDT (0401 GMT), the NASA Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) reentered the Earth's atmosphere while out of control, and crashed on the surface of the planet at an unknown location. A team featuring NASA and military personnel has just found the crash site.
The 6.5-ton satell... |
28 September 2011
03:25 GMT |
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A recent scientific investigation has revealed the existence of massive amounts of rare-Earth elements (RER) at the muddy bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Sediment layers at this location contain vast reserves of these precious substances, which are now mostly harvested and exported by China. A recent crisis that affecte... |
4 July 2011
09:37 GMT |
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Climate scientists know that couple, ocean-atmosphere processes in the Pacific Ocean can have a tremendous influence of climate patterns worldwide. These events, called El Niño and La Niña, alternate with each other, but their cycles have pauses called La Nada. This is where we are now. A couple of mont... |
30 June 2011
07:23 GMT |
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In a bid to understand why the tectonic plates around the Pacific Ocean are causing such massive earthquakes, experts have recently collected new core samples from the ocean floor. They hope that analyzing these sediments will give them a clearer picture of what's going on.The samples collected from the eastern ... |
29 June 2011
09:44 GMT |
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According to experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it would appear that the La Niña phenomenon has stopped in the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean.The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) says that ENSO-neutral conditions have developed in the area... |
10 June 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Data collected by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicates that this year's Atlantic hurricane season may exhibit an above-average level of activity. This means that authorities in disaster-prone areas should prepare for what's in store for them.
Current forecasts developed... |
21 May 2011
06:45 GMT |
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Climate scientists warn that the new parameters of the La Nina atmospheric pattern could have significant repercussions on the world's crops, including corn, coffee, wheat and rice. Crops in the American Midwest could decline significantly this summer, due to the phenomenon, and the state of Illinois could be pl... |
30 January 2011
06:37 GMT |
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Humans pollute the Earth and in the Pacific Ocean, between California and Japan, there is a lot of plastic trash floating around, but saying that this “Great Garbage Patch” is twice the size of Texas is highly exaggerated and completely unacceptable, according to an analysis by an Oregon State University ... |
5 January 2011
06:56 GMT |
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El Nino along with climate change might just trigger the El Nino Modoki that causes long-term changes in the sea currents in the north Pacific Ocean, scientists reported online, in the journal Nature Geoscience.Nobody knows exactly if El Nino Modoki appeared as a consequence of climate change on the traditional form ... |
18 October 2010
03:34 GMT |
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Planetary scientists and geologists have always been curious to learn why the Pacific Ring of Fire and other similar regions appear around the world, and new investigations are helping put things into perspective. The Ring of Fire is the generic name given to a circle-like pattern of volcanoes and seismically active ... |
16 October 2010
06:43 GMT |
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A team of researchers announces the discovery of a new fish species, which was found to exist at a depth that was previously thought to contain no such creatures. The research effort was taking place in a southeastern Pacific trench, when scientists with the project noticed the peculiar species of snailfish. The anim... |
15 October 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Scientists have demonstrated in a new study of coral reefs that the area of the upper ocean where deep cold waters mix with warm surface waters is getting shallowed. The region is called the thermocline. The new investigation was carried out in the western Pacific Ocean, on tropical coral reefs, the team behind the w... |
13 October 2010
05:08 GMT |
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According to investigators at a NASA facility, it would appear that the tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean are currently being cooled by a strong La Niña conditions.The area was until last winter affected by the El Niño weather pattern, but its influence subsided over the past few months. As a result... |
16 September 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Officials at NOAA announced a few days ago that they managed to award a new contract for the construction of the main facility of the Pacific Regional Center (PRC).The complex will be located on Ford Island, in Honolulu, and its main job will be to coordinate the efforts of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm... |
6 September 2010
02:24 GMT |
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Climatologists draw attention to the fact that a relatively new, yet-unstudied type of El Nino is making its presence felt more and more in the world, with potentially significant implications for climate change patterns.Researchers say that this El Nino warms water in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, a fact tha... |
26 August 2010
04:35 GMT |
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A team of French investigators is currently traveling to Russia, in order to derive more knowledge of how past volcanic cycles in the Kamchatka Peninsula may have affected the early Earth. The area is one of the most volcanically active in the entire world. Located in eastern Russia, the Peninsula is part of the Paci... |
25 August 2010
09:10 GMT |
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While diving in the waters around the Arno atoll in the Marshall Islands, experts managed to recently discover a new reef of the world's rarest corals. The Pacific elkhorn coral (Acropora rotumana) stands out from other species through the fact that, as it grows, it branches off like an elk's antlers, givin... |
9 August 2010
03:42 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have known that correlations existed between the weather patterns governing the Pacific Ocean and the climate of both North America and Europe. In a recent investigation, however, it was demonstrated for the first time that the two seemingly-unrelated phenomena are indeed linked. The study ... |
11 June 2010
08:48 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency are proud to announce the successful completion of the first science flight to be performed by a large unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Using one of its two Global Hawk aircraft, scientists at NASA managed to conduct the first long-duration, high-altitude flight above the Pacific ... |
9 April 2010
04:04 GMT |
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On February 27, a very powerful earthquake struck Chile, killing at least 700 people, and causing important damages to a host of cities. The tectonic event triggered a modest-sized tsunami, which spread throughout the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami warnings were given in 53 countries, but damages were not very significant wh... |
1 March 2010
02:37 GMT |
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A new scientific research that looked at large swaths of the Pacific Ocean has determined that the body of water is becoming increasingly acidic as the years pass. Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Marine Science analyzed water from various locations and depths in the Pacific northeast, ... |
21 January 2010
05:30 GMT |
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The South American nation of Bolivia is pressing ahead with its plans of constructing an underground tunnel through the Arica region of northern Chile. The country has been trying to regain its long-lost access to the Pacific Ocean for more than 100 years, and it would now appear that the goal is closer than ever. Wh... |
5 January 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Winter was until recently the traditional season when up to 90 percent of bird species in the Arctic migrated South, to warmer skies. But that seems to no longer apply today. An investigation by the US Geological Service (USGS) has recently determined that as much as 30 percent of species would now rather spend their... |
17 September 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Spending nine months and five days in the deep sea seems like something even a top-class submarine would find difficult to accomplish without maintenance work. But this proved to be a walk in the park for a University of Washington Seaglider, which spent this entire time on a single mission, roaming the Pacific Ocean... |
16 September 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Astronomers have known for centuries that the Sun operates in 11-year cycles, periods of intense or less intense activity, in which variable amounts of radiations, solar flares and sunspots are produced. Now, physicists also know that these variations only change the amount of energy that our planet receives by as li... |
28 August 2009
02:32 GMT |
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) satellite, GOES-11, launched in 2000, has recently beamed back images detailing fizzling tropical cyclone formation in the eastern parts of the Pacific Ocean, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reports. The data collected from the eye-in-the-sky a... |
14 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Though our ears are too insensitive to perceive it, the planet is constantly generating a low-frequency humming noise, which was first discovered with instruments in 1998. At a frequency of around 10 millihertz, the sound is far outside our hearing range, as we can only perceive sounds as low as 20 hertz. Now, scient... |
10 August 2009
03:06 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, conducted by researchers at the University of Utah, and published in the August 6th issue of the respected scientific journal Nature, the new and young New Zealand tectonic plate is slowly reaching maturity, benefiting from an unexpected source of help – water deposits locat... |
6 August 2009
20:01 GMT |
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) website, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred on August 3rd at 17:59:56 UTC (01:59:56 pm EDT, 06:59:56 GMT) in California. Located by a precise measurement program as taking place at a depth of ten kilometers (6.2 miles), the tremor's wide effects are still ... |
4 August 2009
02:06 GMT |
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NEPTUNE Canada, a University of Victoria-led initiative, will be the largest cable oceanic observatory ring in the world. Scheduled to be completed in a few months, the construct will allow for gathering oceanic data straight from the source over the next quarter of a century, its creators say. The structure is locat... |
9 July 2009
04:46 GMT |
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El Nino and La Nina are two atmospheric phenomena in the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean and represent global atmosphere-ocean connections. They occur periodically, and cause significant temperature fluctuations in the oceanic waters. Recently, meteorologists estimated that El Nino could begin its development the next... |
5 June 2009
11:00 GMT |
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