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For many years, experts have believed that organisms change in order to adapt to adversities in their environment, including microbial invaders. But new discoveries are showing that species of viruses can coexist with certain species of algae for several centuries. The weird thing about this is that the neither of th... |
22 July 2011
08:09 GMT |
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A shrimp-like animal that makes up the basis of the food chain spreading across Antarctica has been found to be the most important player in bringing iron to the Southern Ocean. The creature, called krill, contributes to the growth and blooming of phytoplankton. These are microscopic organisms that make up the first ... |
4 July 2011
10:27 GMT |
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Researchers at the American space agency are finally ready to embark on the second leg of an essential study, which will help them gain a deeper insight into how world's ices are faring at this time. The ICESCAPE mission is one of the most important endeavors in this regard. Study the way in which Arctic Ocean w... |
23 June 2011
02:46 GMT |
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As the world's oceans are bound to become more acidic than ever before, researchers are gearing up to face the consequences by trying to understand what the effects of this process will be. Analyzing organisms known as coccolithophores might help in this regard, a new study shows.
The organisms have the tend... |
1 June 2011
02:22 GMT |
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One of the most prolific satellites in orbit managed to snap a new image of a portion of the planet containing a piece of North Africa and Western Europe. The view shows huge clouds of sand being channeled over the Atlantic, while the others are in full bloom from phytoplankton.The latter are microorganisms that repr... |
15 April 2011
09:45 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the United States has discovered that icebergs floating around in the Southern Ocean, near Antarctica, are not only contributing to sea level rise, but that they also play a previously-unknown role in the global carbon cycle and in climate control.
What the team discovered was that the... |
26 March 2011
05:57 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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Images snapped with a satellite operated by the American space agency reveal a very large phytoplankton bloom off the coasts of Chatham Island, in New Zealand. This is the time of the year when the annual springtime bloom takes place in this region of the Southern Hemisphere. The NASA Aqua satellite features an impre... |
28 December 2010
05:37 GMT |
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In an interesting twist, some of the world's smallest microscopic organisms, collectively called phytoplankton, can come together in structures known as blooms, which can be seen from orbit. Now experts try to understand why phytoplankton blooms develop. According to investigations, it would appear that the bloo... |
28 October 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Over the past few year, the idea that geoengineering is a viable solution for averting the effects of global warming has garnered a lot of support, but a new study suggest the enthusiasm was premature.There are several methods to go about modifying the environment at a large scale so that temperatures drop. One of th... |
12 October 2010
14:01 GMT |
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A new image acquired by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, shows phytoplankton blooming in the Barents Sea.The image was taken August 31 and it show the brightest shades of turquoise, navy, teal and green shrouding the sea waters, just like an ever changing abstra... |
4 September 2010
05:43 GMT |
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In a series of studies conducted by Chinese researchers, it was determined that even the most advanced and futuristic methods of geoengineering our planet's climate cannot curb the anticipated rise in sea levels.Computer models at this point show that the average height of the sea will increase constantly over t... |
24 August 2010
06:59 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released an amazing new image of a beautiful plankton bloom, which is currently taking place west of Ireland. The bloom, which is the feature colored in electric blue, looks as if it was painted with the characteristic brush strokes of French Impressionist painter Claude Monet... |
13 August 2010
05:29 GMT |
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A study carried out by marine ecologist Daniel Boyce, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, appearing this week in the journal Nature, pulls the alarm handle on the decline of phytoplankton. In the last century, phytoplankton started dying at a fast rate, and since 1950, 40 percent of the phytoplankton around t... |
29 July 2010
08:38 GMT |
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Each spring, the surface of oceans gets covered up in blooms, features that are caused by massive growth spurs of phytoplankton. These are microscopic organisms, that form the basis of the oceanic food chain. They represent an essential component in all marine ecosystems, and as such are indispensable to the survival... |
21 July 2010
08:53 GMT |
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Nitrogen is one of the important chemical for life on Earth. It composes the majority of our atmosphere, and it is an inert gas, meaning that it does not interact with other chemicals in its stable form. But the amounts of nitrogen in the air are currently changing, with the main additional sources being the burning ... |
6 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Dead zones is a term used to describe areas of the oceans or seas that have been so heavily contaminated with pollutants, that it's virtually impossible for fish and other marine animals to live there. Only some types of algae manage to survive in the toxic conditions, and, by thriving, they consume the short su... |
9 October 2009
06:25 GMT |
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It has been widely agreed upon that oceans act as the largest carbon sinks of the world, engulfing vast amounts of carbon dioxide each year. The water in itself does not draw in carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Rather, tiny organisms known collectively as the phytoplank... |
1 August 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany announced recently that they fully support the proposed action plan for the Southern Ocean, which involves it being sprinkled with several tens of tons of iron, which is supposed to help plankton in the area regenerate and take up more harmful carbon dioxide fr... |
29 January 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Terra-forming is a process described in the Sci-Fi books as the modification of a planet's features, so as to better accommodate human life. Apparently, that's what several large corporations are trying to do in the Southern Ocean, where they say that the large stretches of water could be an enormous source... |
15 December 2008
07:18 GMT |
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People all over the world mourn over the ice loss of the northern planetary pole. But recent research indicated that this might actually be a good thing in some ways, since it leaves more room for phytoplankton to expand. This, in turn, produces chlorophyll, which helps assimilate sun energy and absorbs atmospheric C... |
12 September 2008
05:57 GMT |
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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
03:00 GMT |
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