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Deep-sea fish in deep trouble

A team of leading marine scientists from around the world is recommending an end to most commercial fishing in the deep sea, the Earth's largest ecosystem. Instead, they recommend fishing in more productive waters nearer ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find no evidence of petroleum residues in 'Good Morning America' samples

(PhysOrg.com) -- More science needed to determine oil impact in deeper waters.

Space & Earth / Environment

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DEIMOS joins MARS and its satellite of instruments on seafloor

The planet Mars has a moon named Deimos, so it seems only appropriate that the ocean observatory MARS in Monterey Bay have its own DEIMOS. This DEIMOS, however, is an underwater acoustic package designed to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Ocean warming causes elephant seals to dive deeper

Global warming is having an effect on the dive behaviour and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UNH ocean scientists shed new light on Mariana Trench

An ocean mapping expedition has shed new light on deepest place on Earth, the 2,500-kilometer long Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean near Guam. Using a multibeam echo sounder, state-of-the-art equipment ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought, say scientists

Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking task of analysing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Columbia engineers map energy use in NYC buildings

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cities across the globe are trying to develop plans to cut down their energy consumption and lower their carbon footprint by reducing the associated greenhouse gas emissions. While initial efforts have focused ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Ecologists record and study deep-sea fish noises

University of Massachusetts Amherst fish biologists have published one of the first studies of deep-sea fish sounds in more than 50 years, collected from the sea floor about 2,237 feet (682 meters) below the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Durable NASA rover beginning ninth year of Mars work

(PhysOrg.com) -- Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Coastal storms have long-reaching effects, study says

Coastal storms are known to cause serious damage along the shoreline, but they also cause significant disruption of the deep-sea ecosystem as well, according to a study of extreme coastal storms in the Western Mediterranean ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Broadcast study of ocean acidification to date helps scientists evaluate effects on marine life

Might a penguin's next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe? The answer may be yes, when you add your exhaust fumes to the total amount of carbon dioxide lofted into the atmosphere by humans ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni: Fossil hermit crab named after Michael Jackson

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kent State University researcher was part of an international team of paleontologists that recently made a significant discovery in northern Spain. The group discovered a new family, genus ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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