In spite of covering a huge part of the planet, the world's oceans are still one of its biggest mysteries. Each deep-sea study and tsunami brings to the surface weird, new fish species, and isolated ecosystems, confined to only a certain location on the map, are constantly being discovered. Now, the US National ... |
6 October 2009
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Over the past few years, global warming and climate change woes have made engineers think of new and innovative solutions of preventing the planet's temperature from going up, endangering or forcing to go extinct countless species in the process, alongside billions of humans. One of the proposed solutions was in... |
17 June 2009
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Recognizing ocean acidification as one of the most severe issues that will confront the world in years to come, the United Kingdom has recently approved the investment of £11 million ($16 million) into a five-year scientific study of the phenomenon. Current wisdom has it that the level of carbon dioxide in the ... |
28 April 2009
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Coral reefs are in danger of soon beginning to dissolve completely, a new scientific study to be published on March 13th in the online edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letter shows. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who have been behind the research, say that, i... |
10 March 2009
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During the 1980s, the theory of ocean acidification as a result of the greenhouse effect arose and has been attempted a demonstration ever since. The recent atmospheric carbon dioxide level measurements proved it, as well as its impact on oceans. Besides the negative results of the acidification of the planet's ... |
1 October 2008
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Water surfaces, oceans and seas in particular, are natural sinkholes for carbon dioxide gas. And it just so happens that man made sure that Earth's atmosphere has plenty of carbon dioxide, which is absorbed into water, thus making it more acidic in the respective areas. This in turn affects the marine life such ... |
9 June 2008
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An international team of researchers participating in a study on board the Oregon State University vessel have discovered high levels of acidified ocean water within as little as 32 kilometers away from the shoreline of the West Coast of the North American continent. The acidic water is probably 50 years old and is b... |
23 May 2008
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