Australian and US researchers have recently turned their attention towards the changes occurring in the Antarctic Bottom Water. Being a very cold and dense water that usually flows about 6000 meters below the sea's surface, the Antarctic Bottom Belt has a major impact on the general movement of our oceans.
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22 May 2012
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Over the past few million years, Asia and North America have been intermittently linked via a land strip from time to time. Researchers were recently able to demonstrate that the presence of this strip is what caused the massive climate swings that characterized the last ice age.
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10 April 2012
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The French space agency (CNES) announces that it will begin using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat satellite to provide the international maritime community with nearly real-time data of the world's oceans and their current state.
Though this is not its primary mission, the spacecraft i... |
6 February 2012
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Gregory Ryskin, a physicist and researcher at the Northwestern University, is part of a growing group of researchers who are currently advocating the hypothesis that the magnetic poles of the planet are actually being pushed around by oceanic currents. When this idea first appeared, a large controversy ensued, and it... |
22 June 2009
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