News tagged with deep water
Subseafloor sediment in South Pacific Gyre one of the least inhabited places on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international oceanographic research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre - a site that is as far from continents as it is possible to go on Earth's surface - found so few organisms beneath ...
Deep-sea fish stocks threatened
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Commercial fishing in the north-east Atlantic could be harming deep-sea fish populations a kilometre below the deepest reach of fishing trawlers, according to a 25-year study published on ...
Southern Ocean resistant to changing winds
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Intensifying winds in the Southern Ocean have had little influence on the strength of the Southern Ocean circulation and therefore its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a study published in ...
Sunlight has more powerful influence on ocean circulation and climate than North American ice sheets
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 06, 2008 |
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A study reported in today's issue of Nature disputes a longstanding picture of how ice sheets influence ocean circulation during glacial periods.
Impacts of climate change on lakes
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Climate change will have different effects on lakes in warmer and colder regions of the globe. This is the conclusion reached by Japanese and German researchers following studies of very deep caldera lakes ...
