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From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.


Satellite image shows the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea?s shoreline

Eastern Aral Sea has shrunk by 80% since 2006: ESA

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 3

The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.





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Study: Earth's 4th largest lake shrinking

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 17, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (25) | comments 0

British scientists have determined the Aral Sea is drying so rapidly it has shrunk by two-thirds in fewer than 50 years.


A fossilized giant rhino bone questions the isolation of Anatolia, 25 million years ago

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Contrary to generally accepted belief, Anatolia was not geographically isolated 25 million years ago (during the Oligocene epoch): this has just been demonstrated by researchers from the Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transferts ...


Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska (AP)

Feds give sea otters habitat protection in Alaska

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool.


Study: Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high tide as buffer against potentially damaging ...


Rising sea levels are increasing the risk of flooding along the south coast of England

Rising sea levels are increasing the risk of flooding along the south coast of England

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

A new study by researchers at the University of Southampton has found that sea levels have been rising across the south coast of England over the past century, substantially increasing the risk of flooding ...


Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises (AP)

Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.


Warmer climate not the cause of oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea has never been greater than it is now. But it is not an effect of climate change but rather of increased inputs of nutrients and fertilisers. This is the finding of researchers at the University ...


SEA to conduct expedition dedicated to measuring plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sea Education Association (SEA) is preparing to conduct the first-ever research expedition dedicated solely to examining the accumulation of plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean.


El Nino Picking Up Steam

El Nino Picking Up Steam

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest image from the U.S./French Jason-2 satellite finds a strong wave of warm water heading toward the Americas, fueling El Nino.


Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife ...



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