News articles tagged with 'sea'
Climate sensitivity to CO2 more limited than extreme projections
— 25 Nov 2011 09:00 | EnvironmentA new study suggests that the rate of global warming from doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be less than the most dire estimates of some previous studies - and, in fact, may…
Leatherback sea turtle nests increasing in Florida
— 6 Apr 2011 17:37 | BiologyThe number of endangered leatherback sea turtle nests at 68 beaches in Florida has increased by 10.2 percent a year since 1979, according to a new Duke University-led study published…
Observing Arctic ice-edge plankton blooms from space
— 5 Mar 2011 13:51 | EnvironmentOngoing climate-driven changes to the Arctic sea-ice could have a significant impact on the blooming of tiny planktonic plants (phytoplankton) with important implications for the Arctic…
Algal antifreeze makes inroads into ice
— 4 Mar 2011 14:05 | BiologySea-ice algae - the important first rung of the food web each spring in places like the Arctic Ocean - can engineer ice to its advantage, according to the first published findings about…
Improved method developed to locate ships in storms
— 1 Mar 2011 18:57 | TechnologyThere are already systems that detect ships at sea, but a group of engineers from the UAH, led by the researcher Raul Vicen, has introduced a new development, involving 'the use of…
Reviving 100-year-old resting spores of diatoms
— 1 Mar 2011 17:39 | BiologyDiatoms account for a large proportion of the phytoplankton found in the water, and live both in the open sea and in freshwater lakes. By reviving 100-year-old spores that had laid…
Climate projections show human health impacts possible within 30 years
— 20 Feb 2011 16:03 | EnvironmentA panel of scientists speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) unveiled new research and models demonstrating how climate…
Oldest fossils of large seaweeds, possible animals tell story about oxygen in an ancient ocean
— 17 Feb 2011 18:39 | Geology and palaeontologyAlmost 600 million years ago, before the rampant evolution of diverse life forms known as the Cambrian explosion, a community of seaweeds and worm-like animals lived in a quiet deep-water…
Study finds massive flux of gas, in addition to liquid oil, at BP well blowout in Gulf
— 13 Feb 2011 21:13 | EnvironmentA new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge…
Researchers map out ice sheets shrinking during Ice Age
— 12 Feb 2011 20:17 | Geology and palaeontologyA set of maps created by the University of Sheffield have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the Ice Age…