 Oxygen depletion: A new form of ocean habitat loss May 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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An international team of physical oceanographers including a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as ... | |
 Scientists discover new ocean current April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are ... | |
 Climate modelers see modern echo in '30s Dust Bowl April 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, turning an ... | |
Balloons 'bombard' North Alabama landfill to collect data, improve tornado warnings May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Three hot-air balloons dropped asphalt shingles, lumber, sticks, leaves and pine needles onto the Morgan County Landfill near here on Sunday so scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville could gather data needed ... | |
 Rocks under the northern ocean are found to resemble ones far south April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Scientists probing volcanic rocks from deep under the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean have discovered a special geochemical signature until now found only in the southern hemisphere. The rocks were dredged ... | |
Before fossil fuels, Earth's minerals kept CO2 in check April 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system— a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed. A joint University of Hawaii / Carnegie ... | |
Scientists seek clues as earthquakes rattle Reno April 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Scientists are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage to residents' homes trying to figure out what's happening beneath the earth's surface to cause a troubling swarm of hundreds of earthquakes in northern ... | |
'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History April 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at Florida State University’s Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility will give international scientists a close-up look at fluctuations that ... | |
Toxic Metal Cadmium Can Enter Great Lakes Food Chain Through Algae April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Some algae from the Great Lakes can use cadmium for nutritional requirements. A recent study published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research reports that algae collected from lakes Erie and Ontario can use cadmium, a known ... | |
 Chalk one up for coccolithophores April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Scientists have feared that gradual acidification of the world's oceans would wreak havoc with organisms that build protective outer shells. But a new finding shows at least three species of coccolithophores ... | |
 Reno urged to prepare for worse as earthquakes continue April 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to prepare for a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after the largest earthquake in a two-month-long series of temblors. | |
 Scientists reveal presence of ocean current 'stripes' April 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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An international collaborative of scientists led by Peter Niiler, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Nikolai Maximenko, a researcher at the International Pacific ... | |
 First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety April 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A handful of soil is a lot like a banana, strawberry and apple smoothie: Blended all together, it is hard to tell what's in there, especially if you have never tasted the fruits before. | |
 Earthquake in Illinois could portend an emerging threat April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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To the surprise of many, the earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, originated in the Wabash Valley Fault and not the better-known and more-dreaded New Madrid Fault in Missouri's ... | |
Northern lights glimmer with unexpected trait April 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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An international team of scientists has detected that some of the glow of Earth’s aurora is polarized, an unexpected state for such emissions. Measurements of this newfound polarization in the Northern Lights may provide ... | |
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