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How much water does the ocean have?

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The calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of geodesists and oceanographers from the University of Bonn, as well ...

Ida now a coastal low assaulting the Mid-Atlantic

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Ida is one stubborn girl. Her remnants have moved out to sea and reformed as a powerful coastal low pressure system that's been raining on the mid-Atlantic since Tuesday night, November 10. The Geostationary ...

A glimpse at the Earth's crust deep below the Atlantic

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Long-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor, says geologist Dr Bram Murton of the National ...

Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts

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7 hours ago | 2.3 / 5 (4) | 0

A giant iceberg twice the length of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Stadium has been spotted floating off Australia and could be headed for New Zealand, scientists said on Thursday.

Early life on Earth may have developed more quickly than thought

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21 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 0

The Earth's climate was far cooler -- perhaps more than 50 degrees -- billions of years ago, which could mean conditions for life all over the planet were more conducive than previously believed, according ...

Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought (w/ Video)

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22 hours ago | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analyzed isotope ratios in 3.4 ...