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Data sent back to Earth by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite have been confirmed yet again, this time by the Argo network of ocean drifters.
Though SMOS is the most advanced salinity-measuring spacecraft ever developed, experts on the ground are constantly cros... |
1 October 2012
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University of British Columbia (UBC) investigators say that fish living in the ocean will become smaller and smaller over the coming decades, as global warming and climate change continue to exert their widespread effects on the world.
Both oceanic and atmospheric systems are currently experiencing significant chan... |
1 October 2012
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Investigators from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Stanford University say that climate change will force the vast majority of critical marine ecosystems in the Pacific Ocean to migrate by several hundred miles, by 2100.
Marine habitat shift is a phenomenon that occurs naturally as... |
28 September 2012
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At the European Planetary Science Congress, held in Madrid, Spain, on September 25, researchers from the University of Nantes and the Charles University, in Prague, argued in front of colleagues that liquid water under the surface of the Jovian moon Europa only endures for short periods of time.
They say that the s... |
25 September 2012
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In a paper published in the August issue of the astronomical journal Icarus, experts at the University of Maryland raise the interesting prospect that Triton, the largest moon orbiting Neptune, may have an ocean of liquid water underneath its icy surface.
Astronomers first learned that Triton's surface was mai... |
6 September 2012
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An unusual class of potential antibiotic agents, called phosphonates, has been found to be responsible for the production of methane in oxygen-rich waters. The weird chemistry they are involved in results in the production of 4 percent of the world's methane, yearly.
In a paper published in the latest issue of ... |
1 September 2012
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A group of atmospheric scientists from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom is currently investigating a method that could allow experts to reduce the intensity of tropical storms and cyclones by at least one category.
The approach relies on controlling the development of clouds over a given area. If new c... |
24 August 2012
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The 2012 Ocean Health Index – a comprehensive analysis of both waters and the ecosystems they contain and support – gives the global ocean a score of 60 points out of 100. The assessment is divided by country, with scores ranges from 36 to 86 points.
The science director of the Center for Ocean Solution... |
16 August 2012
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A report only recently published in the journal Biogeosciences Discussions argues that some marine creatures – whales, in particular – are crucial in making sure nutrients get to where they are most needed.
Thus, when swimming, the whales continue to move their massive tails up and down through the wate... |
6 August 2012
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Ever since the 1960s, oceanographers have proposed that the world's oceans should contain regions where vitamins are not at all present in the water. Following a new study, scientists were able to identify such locations, where B vitamins are not present even in trace amounts.
Studies such as this are important... |
24 July 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new report released by experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it would appear that last month was the fourth-warmest June recorded since records began, in 1880.
The report, entitled “State of the Climate Global Analysis, June 2012,” wa... |
17 July 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new, large-scale scientific investigation, it would appear that the world's oceans contain more than 1.5 million different plankton taxa. The number is still preliminary, as it is based on early analyses of samples collected from a variety of locations. The samples were harvest... |
14 July 2012
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More than 770 extrasolar planets have been confirmed to date, and this large number is beginning to make it clear to astronomers that their chances of finding water on some of these worlds are steadily increasing. A team of experts now proposes a new model for doing so.
Many planets have already been detected insi... |
12 July 2012
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Just yesterday, during an event suggestively entitled “The Foundations of a Blue Economy,” the Center for American Progress (CAP) made a case of how important oceans are for the US economy and pinned down ways of making better use of this natural resource.
Apparently, for the time being, most citizens a... |
28 June 2012
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Starting with the 1st of April, 2013, the scientists employed by the Canadian government to deal with a rather pressing issue – that of marine pollution – are to be given the sack. The reason behind this abrupt shift in Canada's attitude towards the well-being of our oceans is, what else, money. A... |
28 May 2012
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Investigators from the University of Maryland (UMD), in the United States, say that a new study they conducted provided new evidence that supports the Gaia hypothesis. This one proposes that the entire planet is a giant, living organism.
The team believes that it will soon be able to discover and analyze a large num... |
16 May 2012
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Volcanic rocks called pumice may have carried the earliest lifeforms that developed on Earth across vast expanses of water, allowing microbes and other microorganisms to populate far-off, isolated regions, such as islands. Pumices are highly-porous materials, and researchers have been interested in their potential... |
30 April 2012
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The results of a new scientific investigation suggest that another important source of methane may exist in the Arctic, in addition to tundra and permafrost soils. The ocean itself may be producing important amounts of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas.
Experts estimate that it can heat up the atmosphere ... |
23 April 2012
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Investigators at the Oregon State University (OSU) say that oyster seed production has collapsed in recent times, due to the encroaching influence of oceanic acidification. The phenomenon is very severe, since it can have global repercussions.
Ocean acidification is a process through which the pH levels of water aro... |
12 April 2012
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Global warming has only begun accelerating in the past few decades, but this does not meant that its effects were not visible long before that. This was confirmed in a new study, which showed that the world's oceans have been getting warmer for more than a century,
What this research suggests is that climate ch... |
2 April 2012
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Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons, is currently thought to be our safest bet for discovering life in the solar system, at locations other than Earth. However, there is a host of challenges that lifeforms would need to overcome in order to survive there, and researchers are now trying to account for them.
The i... |
29 March 2012
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A researcher sponsored by NASA believes that the presence of the mantle underneath Earth's crust is not enough to explain the motions tectonic plates around the world are displaying. He proposes that some other mechanisms are at work here as well.
The mantle is located between 22 and 75 miles (35.4 to 120.7 kil... |
26 March 2012
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Planetary sciences would stand to gain a lot from a potential mission to Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons. An ocean of liquid water is believed to lie under a thick layer of solid ice, and sending a submarine to scout it out could reveal data about how life evolves, among others. Investigator Steve Squyres, a... |
23 March 2012
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A recent expedition scientists lead around the Atlantis Massif led to a discovery that could set the basis for a renewed, deeper understanding of how to map large geophysical structures located beneath the seafloor. This ability stems from a direct analysis of an unusual type of rock. Using the research vessel JOIDE... |
21 March 2012
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Early on in school, we are told that the shortest distance between two points is a line. There are some cases though, where this is not true, and navigating underwater is one of them. A team of experts at MIT announces the creation of an algorithm that provides efficient transportation routes underwater.
The new cal... |
9 March 2012
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A team of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in La Jolla, California, argues that hydrothermal vents and marine seeps can coexist in the same environment. The question as to whether or not that is the case has been a topic of discussion in the scientific community for a decade.
Many scien... |
8 March 2012
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Scientist Mohammad-Reza Alam predicts that it may be possible to create an invisibility cloak capable of concealing ships, oil platforms, and other man-made structures, from the fury of rough seas. This is the first time such a technique has been proposed.
Creating such a scenario is entirely different from using m... |
5 March 2012
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Of all the bodies in the solar system, with the exception of Earth, the Jovian moon Europe is widely considered to be the second-most likely to support basic lifeforms. Now, a new study shows that the liquid water underneath the moon's icy surface may be too acidic for life to appear or endure there.
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2 March 2012
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In order to make sense of an apparent paradox, astronomers are revisiting an older theory seeking to explain how the Sun looked and behaved like in its infancy. The theory holds that the star may have been between 2 and 5 percent more massive when it first formed.
This idea is being explored because it has the pote... |
15 February 2012
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Trying to understand how the atmosphere, its clouds, and the oceans underneath behave without taking into account the fact that the planet is spinning is a futile exercise. In order to help students and laymen alike, experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Earth and Space Sciences ... |
1 February 2012
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For years, astronomers and geologists have been debating whether a surface ocean made of liquid water actually existed on the surface of Mars. The latest research on the issue demonstrates that was the case.
The argument has swung back and forth countless time, with each new investigation offering arguments for or a... |
31 January 2012
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States just published a new paper in the top journal Science, describing how changes in sea temperatures can be used as a clear indicator for forecasting wildfires that will hit South America.
The team, led by experts from the University of California in Irvine (UCI) Dep... |
18 January 2012
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The only ecosystem left to explore on our world is also one that could finally allow us to better understand our planet. Inside the igneous ocean crust that lies beneath the sediments of the ocean floor, species of microorganisms live in conditions that have not changed for eons. Needless to say, analyzing these li... |
9 January 2012
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A number of marine surveys conducted earlier this year revealed a total of 15 new species living in the ocean. Some of these creatures are remarkable in and of themselves, whereas others are elusive species, or ones thought to have disappeared long ago.
The surveys were conducted in waters around Scotland, and cove... |
29 December 2011
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Astronomers interested in discovering whether an ocean lies just underneath the crusty surface of Pluto have to wait for about 3 more years. The NASA New Horizons spacecraft is currently on its way to the dwarf planet, and it is scheduled to fly past the object in 2015.
This probe is the fastest ever built. Launche... |
22 November 2011
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According to a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the top journal Nature, it would appear that massive volumes of water are trapped under the surface of Europa, one of the most interesting moons around Jupiter.
The data were extracted from a series of observations that NASA spacecraft carried of the ... |
17 November 2011
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Researchers have recently determined that hadal zones in our planet's oceans can be used as proxies for how similar features may look like on alien worlds. Some of these locations may include the Jovian moon Europa or the Saturnine moon Enceladus.
Both these worlds are covered in thick ice, and are suspected o... |
8 November 2011
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In a study published in the October 17 issue of the esteemed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the Emery School of Medicine and the Harvard University propose a new possible explanation for why bioluminesence develops in the world's oceans. Sailors and others at sea r... |
19 October 2011
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More than 252 million years ago, our planet experienced the most gruesome and complete extinction even in its history. Dubbed the end-Permian extinction, the phenomenon is still pretty much shrouded in mystery, but experts now hope to use the ancient ocean to gleam new insights into what happened.
According to inv... |
11 October 2011
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Given the recent scare that a falling NASA satellite gave a lot of people, it's worthy to mention that the same type of panic will not occur when the International Space Station (ISS) will be deorbited. At this time, the maneuver is expected to be carried out in 2020.
The orbital lab is as large as a football... |
24 September 2011
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that global warming will continue to increase mean temperatures on Earth throughout this century. However, the study also indicates that the effect may stall at times, influenced by the deep ocean and other factors.
Investigators determined that tempera... |
19 September 2011
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The results of a new scientific study refine our knowledge about how Earth's oceans looked like about a billion years ago. The picture the research paints has tremendous implications, since it shows that iron was the prevailing nutrient for prolonged periods of time, rather than oxygen.
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8 September 2011
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While land-based dinosaurs were competing for dominance on the surface of the Earth, an equally-powerful war was being fought in the planet's oceans, where numerous voracious species lived. In time, the mosasaurs became the ultimate predators, and scientists now analyze their rise in careful detail.According to ... |
1 August 2011
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Nearly three quarters of Earth's surface is covered with water and it's very difficult to monitor and control such a vast surface. In recent times, experts began realizing that satellites are the way of the future, and they are now moving forward with creating a surveillance networks. Some of the most commo... |
18 July 2011
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In the near future, harvesting seaweeds called kelp could provide companies with the necessary raw material to create unconventional biofuels. The materials could be collected and processed at a price that would allow for wide-scale applications. Efficiency would be increased even further if the kelp (Laminaria digit... |
4 July 2011
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According to new study results, it would appear that the ocean Saturn's largest moon Enceladus is concealing under a thick layer of ice may be salty. This puts an interesting twist in experts' propositions that the ocean might in fact be inhabitable and inhabited. Enceladus is now considered to be the most ... |
23 June 2011
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Scientists working on the West Coast of the United States have recently set up a new radio antenna system, whose purpose is to investigate the way oceanic currents influence waters in the area. The grid consists of 78 transmitters, each of which is capable of sending a radio pulse in the waters. The new data will hel... |
21 June 2011
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When researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) investigated the role of jellyfish in the oceans, they discovered that the creatures tended to alter marine food webs considerably.The way this was done was by redirecting food energy more towards bacteria than towards higher, more complex lifeforms.... |
8 June 2011
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Scientists at the American space agency have devised a cunning plan to obtain a 3D view of salinity levels in the world's ocean. The idea came from the SAC-D satellite and its Aquarius instrument. The spacecraft, which will launch this week, carries a NASA instrument called Aquarius, which is capable of analyzin... |
8 June 2011
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According to the results of a new investigation, it would appear that baby clownfish are in danger of losing their hearing soon, due to the effects of ocean acidification. This would be disastrous for the species, since it uses hearing to avoid predators. These fish need to avoid coral reefs during the day, since the... |
2 June 2011
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