News tagged with coastal
West Coast needs more research on fisheries, marine science, climate change
Jun 24, 2009 |
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According to a new report on regional marine research and information needs, the West Coast critically needs more research about fisheries, ocean health, coastal hazards and climate change - among other topics - to support ...
Ice Sheets Can Retreat 'In a Geologic Instant,' Study of Prehistoric Glacier Shows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists ...
Study shows transfer of heavy metals from water to fish in Huelva estuary
Jun 16, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Cadiz has confirmed that zinc, copper and lead are present at high levels in the water and sediments of the Huelva estuary, and have studied how some of these heavy metals are ...
China: Will ensure stimulus protects environment
Jun 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- China said Friday it will strictly monitor the government's economic stimulus package for projects that cause pollution, addressing worries that officials would ignore the environment in an effort to maintain China's ...
Whales and dolphins in hot water
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- More whales, dolphins and porpoises than was previously thought could be at risk from the effects of climate change, according to a new study.
Height of large waves changes according to month
May 29, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Cantabria, Spain, has developed a statistical model that makes it possible to study the variability of extreme waves throughout the year, according to the journal Coastal Engineering. The st ...
Shellfish face an uncertain future in a high CO2 world
May 27, 2009 |
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Overfishing and disease have decimated shellfish populations in many of the world's temperate estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Smithsonian scientists, led by Whitman Miller, ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research ...
Double trouble for water life
May 18, 2009 |
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Excess phosphorus and nitrogen produced by human activities on neighboring land is making its way into our coastal waters and degrading both water quality and aquatic life. Although historically the priority has been to control ...
'Ocean glider' home after two-month voyage
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Scientists are celebrating the first successful deployment and retrieval in Australia of a remotely controlled, deep ocean-going robotic submarine destined to play a central role in measuring changes in two ...
Mangroves Save Lives In Storms
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests experienced significantly ...
Report shows mid-Atlantic has high potential for wind energy
Apr 06, 2009 |
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The breezes blowing across the shallow waters of the mid-Atlantic coast, including North Carolina, hold some of the nation's highest potential for harvesting wind energy, a new federal report says.
Nine rescued whales beach again in Australia
Mar 25, 2009 |
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All but one of the 10 whales that survived a mass beaching on Australia's west coast were Wednesday believed to have come back ashore and were unlikely to survive, authorities said.
Scientists find climate change to have paradoxical effects in coastal wetlands
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is largely responsible for recent global warming and the rise in sea levels. However, a team of scientists, including two Smithsonian ecologists, have found that this same increase in CO2 may ironic ...
Study finds most wars occur in Earth's richest biological regions
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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In a startling result, a new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the ...
Nutrient Pollution Chokes Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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Protecting drinking water and preventing harmful coastal "dead zones", as well as eutrophication in many lakes, will require reducing both nitrogen and phosphorus pollution. Because streams and rivers are ...
